The aim of this Campaign is to increase the activity levels of the general population and showing that everyone can be active whether you have a chronic condition, you don’t know what you should be doing, you “don’t have all the gear”, and the biggest restriction is often “I don’t know where to start”.
To help with this let’s look at the recommended level of activity. It has been recommended that adults complete 150 minutes of moderate or 75 minutes of vigorous activity every week. It is also recommended that these minutes are spread over a number of days, such as 30 minutes over 5 days, of the 150 minutes of activity it is recommended that 2 of the activity sessions a week are strength/resistance training related. https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/
For Children aged 5-18 it is recommended that they complete 60 minutes of moderate activity each day and should have 3 days of the week with impact sports such as jumping and/or strengthening such as climbing and swinging on playground equipment. https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/physical-activity-guidelines-children-and-young-people/
So how do we achieve these levels of activity? Take a look at some of these examples of people achieving active goals by the CSP.
Here are some great links for people who have chronic conditions such as arthritis, Cancer and chronic pain. https://www.csp.org.uk/public-patient/keeping-active-and-healthy/love-activity-hate-exercise-campaign/being-active-long
Or even down load some APPs these have be designed by Public health England. They have a range of activity and health based apps.
There is some new research coming out that although being active is very important, long periods of sedentary episodes are even more harmful, such as people who do nothing and just sit and watch tv all night, or people who have the 150 minutes of activity recommended but then do nothing the rest of the week.
Therefore the best practice is to ensure you get the recommended active minutes as well as then keeping yourself active with light activities regularly. Such as standing up and walking to the kitchen in advert breaks, doing some tidying, going for a walk etc.
If you need any help in improving your activity levels or have any concerns regarding increasing your activity levels then book yourself in for a physiotherapy session for an assessment, treatment and advice. Just take a look at this picture for how beneficial being active can be.
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