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If you are out shopping, walk briskly and
always take the stairs.
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Walk the dog
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Put
a basketball hoop up in your yard or garden
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Put
on a CD and dance for 10 minutes every day
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Try
and choose the stairs rather than the lift.
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Go
for a bike ride
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Enjoy
active play with your children - football, frisbee, short races, rounders,
skipping, hide and seek etc
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Walk
to the shops - even the local newsagent - every bit of exercise counts
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Dance
with your children for fun
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Dig
the garden and use a push lawn mower
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Hand
wash and polish the car and do it with vigour!
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Walk or cycle the Peak District
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Go swimming
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Try walking to work or school
- walking is never subject to delays or hold ups on the roads!
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Try to exercise briskly - if
you can exercise and sing at the same time, you probably need to step it
up a little. Brisk exercise means that you have enough breath to hold a
conversation at the same time
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Visit a leisure centre or join
a gym or fitness class
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Brush the yard and rake the
leaves
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If you want to raise money for
a good cause, choose something that involves you and others being active
- a night hike, sponsored bike ride, distance walking etc
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Just go out to the park - being
outside usually leads to being active
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Join a local football team or
form a 5-a-side team at work
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Do 30 minutes of housework such
as dusting, hovering, floor mopping, window cleaning - you can do it in
10 minute chunks and try to do it at a brisk pace
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Get the exercise bike out of
the loft and get on it
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When you next go walking, climb
a hill
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Take up golf and enjoy the walk
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Buy or borrow an exercise video
for home
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Encourage and support your children
to be active - if you walk, they will walk, if you play and run around,
so will they
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Go for a 10 minute walk during
your break at work
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Take up a new sport - tennis,
volleyball, squash, bowling, ten-pin bowling, table tennis etc
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Stretch or do exercises whilst
watching TV
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Try out an activity you've never
done before. Variety is the spice of an active life!
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If it's cold and wet, walk around
Meadowhall and enjoy the window displays
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If it snows, shovel the paths
and yard
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Take the kids sledging, snowballing
and build a snow man
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Offer to walk your friends'
children to school - as well as your own - and they can return the favour
when you can't make it
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Join an environment/conservation
group and build a wall, cut the bushes or pick the litter
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Have a go at martial arts, yoga,
pilates or tai chi
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Play catch or tig with your
children
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Think of a themed walk; it could
be visiting friends' houses, checking out the local wildlife or the Sheffield
Round Walk
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Participate in local events
such as Fun Runs or sponsored walks - great fun and great exercise too
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Make a family commitment to
try a new activity at school holidays
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Do sit ups, press ups or stretching
at home
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Go for a walk with family or
friends. They are likely to ask you to come the next time they organise
a walk
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Go out dancing - to a class or a club - and why not
learn a new type of dance such as ballroom, salsa or rock n roll?
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Ask for and give gifts that
encourage activity e.g. sports kit, balls, free gym trials, pedometers.
You don't always have to wait for birthdays and Christmas
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Take an active holiday - relax
on the beach some of the time but maybe not all the time!
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Ask a friend to take you along
to their club or class
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Treat yourself to a set of swimming
lessons or a short coaching course for a new sport or activity
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Buy or borrow a pedometer and
measure how far you go
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How about an 'early night' with
your partner?
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Think in small doses - 10 minute
blocks of exercise are great, especially if you can build them up to 30
minutes each day. Remember every bit of exercise counts!
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