OSWEGO – Mayor Billy Barlow introduced immediately the beginning of development for an outside grownup health courtroom, with a supporting cellular app, at Breitbeck Park close to the Liberty Avenue loop.
This capital undertaking is a featured a part of a 2022 initiative launched by Nationwide Health Marketing campaign (NFC), a nationwide consulting group that companions with cities and faculties to plan, construct, and fund wholesome infrastructure. The 1,000 sq. foot courtroom will embrace 30 particular person items of apparatus together with push rings, pull rings, push ladders, field jumps, lunge steps and extra.
The brand new Health Courtroom® at Breitbeck Park will probably be a free, open to the general public, out of doors wellness middle that permits customers to leverage their very own physique weight to get a whole exercise. Created for adults of all ages in thoughts, the Health Courtroom is adaptable for all health ranges. New customers can even obtain the free Health Courtroom App — a coach-in-your-pocket type platform — that transforms the out of doors fitness center right into a digitally supported wellness ecosystem.
The Health Courtroom App, labeled “Health Courtroom,” is accessible for iOS and Android. Nationwide Health Marketing campaign developed the trademarked seven-station system in 2012 hoping to encourage municipalities to remodel public areas into group health hubs. There are presently 100 lively Health Courtroom places throughout the nation, and the Marketing campaign will attain a complete of 500 cities and faculties by the tip of 2022.
“Selling well being and wellness in our group is critically vital, now greater than ever, following the COVID-19 pandemic. Bringing an outside health courtroom to Breitbeck Park will present a free, accessible house to train or host group health actions and train courses for people, organizations, and golf equipment throughout the group,” Barlow mentioned. “The health courtroom provides to the record of tasks persevering with at Breitbeck Park as we search to make Breitbeck a real vacation spot spot with one thing for everybody. Whereas the children play on the new splash pad or playground, adults can train on the new health courtroom, stroll across the park, or expertise the scenic overlooks and seating areas put in a couple of years in the past.”
Late final 12 months, town of Oswego utilized and was awarded a $30,000 grant from the Nationwide Health Marketing campaign to assist assist this system. The stability of the roughly $150,000 undertaking will probably be paid for by the American Rescue Plan funding town obtained in 2021. The town began development with the pouring of a concrete pad and can accomplice with the NFC installers to insert fixtures within the coming days.
The park is scheduled to open later this month.
ABOUT NFC:
Nationwide Health Marketing campaign (NFC) is a social enterprise – based in San Francisco, California in 1979 – that makes a speciality of funding, activating, and selling wholesome infrastructure by partnerships with cities and faculties. Now working in over 150 cities, NFC’s distinctive program delivers consulting companies and an built-in wellness initiative to communities, centered on the world’s finest out of doors fitness center: The Health Courtroom®. Our mission is to design wholesome infrastructure for cities to enhance the standard of life for folks. Be taught extra about NFC at NationalFitnessCampaign.com and comply with us on social @NatFitCampaign.
MONDAY, May 20, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Some folks like to count their daily steps, while others prefer exercising for a certain amount of time during a day or a week.
Luckily, either approach boosts health, a new study finds.
Exercise targets based on either step count or minutes are equally associated with lower risks of premature death and heart disease, researchers report in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
Given this, personal preferences probably are key when setting up an exercise plan, researchers said.
“For some, especially for younger individuals, exercise may involve activities like tennis, soccer, walking, or jogging, all of which can be easily tracked with steps,” said lead author Dr. Rikuta Hamaya, a researcher with the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Preventive Medicine in Boston.
“However, for others, it may consist of bike rides or swimming, where monitoring the duration of exercise is simpler,” Hamaya added in a hospital news release.
Current U.S. exercise guidelines focus on minutes – at least 150 minutes weekly of moderate to vigorous physical activity, or 75 minutes of vigorous activity.
But smartwatches have made it easier than ever to track step counts, raising the question of whether steps would be better suited for setting exercise goals, researchers said.
“We recognized that existing physical activity guidelines focus primarily on activity duration and intensity but lack step-based recommendations,” Hamaya said.
“With more people using smartwatches to measure their steps and overall health, we saw the importance of ascertaining how step-based measurements compare to time-based targets in their association with health outcomes – is one better than the other?” Hamaya added.
For this new study, researchers analyzed data from more than 14,000 women participating in the national Women’s Health Study.
Between 2011 and 2015, participants 62 and older were asked to wear motion trackers for seven days in a row to record their physical activity, only removing the devices for sleep or water-related activities, researchers said.
On average, the participants engaged in an average of 62 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity per week, and accumulated nearly 5,200 steps per day.
During an average follow-up of nine years, approximately 9% of participants died and 4% developed heart disease, results show.
The most active women had 30% to 40% lower risk of death or heart disease, regardless of whether minutes or steps were counted, researchers found.
Further, women whose physical activity levels fell within the top three-quarters outlived those in the bottom quarter by an average of 2.2 months based on minutes and 2.3 months based on steps.
The survival advantage persisted regardless of differences in body-mass index, researchers noted.
Either steps or minutes have advantages and disadvantages when it comes to tracking exercise goals, Hamaya said.
Step counts can differ significantly between a 20-year-old and an 80-year-old who walk for 30 minutes at moderate intensity, Hamaya noted.
On the other hand, steps are straightforward to measure and less subject to interpretation compared to time-based exercise intensity, researchers said.
Steps also capture the physical activity contained in everyday living, not just the time spent in exercise. That’s the type of activity most common among older folks, researchers said.
“That’s why it’s important for physical activity guidelines to offer multiple ways to reach goals,” Hamaya said. “Movement looks different for everyone, and nearly all forms of movement are beneficial to our health.”
More information
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has more on physical activity guidelines for Americans.
SOURCE: Brigham and Women’s Hospital, news release, May 20, 2024
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BATON ROUGE – Starting June 1, teens ages 14-19 can work out for free at their home Planet Fitness locations.
By preregistering through PF’s Summer Pass program, teenagers can stay active throughout the summer with no additional fees.
The program will run through the end of August. Planet Fitness has run its summer program for four years.
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