Thanks to everyone who has signed up to the 10,000 steps Australasian University Health Challenge which begins on Monday 19 August. We’ve had 13 people in total signed up to the library team. Ka mau te wehi! There’s still plenty of time to sign up if you’re interested.
Helen has kindly offered to organise lunchtime walks around campus, daily at 12.30. This is also a good chance to chat with others doing the challenge.
Some other tips and ideas to increase your steps:
- Take the stairs instead of the lift
- Park a bit further away and walk or bike to work
- Try a 7 or 14 day UC Rec Centre pass to see if the gym is for you
- Take yourself and a buddy on a tour of one of the shiny new campus buildings (eg. Haere Roa, Rehua)
- See here for some ideas for weekend walks https://www.christchurchnz.com/walk-canterbury/
- And with all that extra exercise you might want to reward yourself with yoga or a massage https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/ucreccentre/staff-wellbeing/
- Other activities can be recorded as steps too https://www.10000steps.org.au/support/dashboardsupport/recording-other-activites-steplog/
Do you have any other tips or ideas for increasing steps and getting fit and healthy? Please feel free to share them as comments on this post.
Karawhiua!