Category Archives: Activity for health

Use of physical activity for promoting health and wellbeing

Massive revamp of ePALs (& 50% of this weekend only)

We have just spent the last month completely revamping our ePALs product and it’s looking stunning even if I say so myself! If you want to check it out for yourself, there’s a free version that we’ve nicknamed ePALs Lite, … Continue reading

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sportEX health archives now available free

Earlier this year we very sadly had to call time on our physical activity health promotion journal, sportEX health. As many of you know, we struggled to ever cover our costs on the magazine and we kept going believing that … Continue reading

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2000 free walks and walking maps

A flashy-flash based website giving you maps for more than 2,000 walks scattered all over the UK. You can select by difficulty rating, distance, duration, region (or several regions), whether you want it to be point to point or circular. If you promote physical activity to people, this could be handy site. Continue reading

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Yahoo's Purple Pedals Project

One of the aims of this blog is to highlight interesting things I encounter that are relevant to the topics of the sportEX magazines. These could come from anywhere – podcasts, newsletters, emails from sportEX readers etc. This one I … Continue reading

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Step by step tube line by Pruhealth

This is a great idea for those of you promoting physical activity in London. PruHealth have developed a tube map which details the number of steps between each station on the London Tube line. The idea is to encourage people … Continue reading

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sportEX leaflets given NHS nod of approval

The Department of Health’s London Regional Public Health Group physical activity team have identified sportEX’s activity and medical conditions leaflets as some of the best quality leaflets available in the UK. They have circulated an email to their public health contacts as a result and can be read here. Continue reading

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New presentation from our keynote Major Moves speaker

For those of you who attended the sportEX conference, Major Moves 2008, our keynote speaker Biray Alsac has had a busy few months. This time she’s been speaking at the ACSM conference in the USA. [slideshare id=1259501&doc=acsmembracinginteractivetechnologyingroupex-public-090407102302-phpapp02] share me!: Bookmark … Continue reading

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Entertaining activity promotion

Some very entertaining YouTube videos on the theme of promoting physical activity for health! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emjYcE0sz3M] share me!: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin Share via MySpace share via Reddit Share with … Continue reading

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