The Evening Times ran an article about figures in a new report showing that women from Lanarkshire experience higher-than-average rates of stillbirth and neonatal deaths than other parts of Scotland. The region recorded the second-highest rate in Scotland with 6.42 deaths per 1,000 births. However it is worth noting that the figure of 7,096 Lanarkshire resident […]
Registration open – Walk the Islands of the Carribean
Registration is now open to take part in NHS Lanarkshire’s latest walking challenge – Walk the Islands of the Caribbean.
Why not take a virtual tour of the islands whilst increasing your steps and exercise levels at the same time?
The Islands of the Caribbean follows on from successful virtual tours of California and Japan, which have created a huge buzz around the organisation. The focus for this challenge however, is on ‘quality’ and not necessarily ‘quantity’. Of course, the Healthy Working Lives team want people to increase their steps and get out exercising but it’s been shown that it’s perhaps more important to simply get your heart beating faster for shorter periods of exercise than ambling along in the search for 10,000 steps per day.
In fact, breaking your exercise down into 10/15 minute chunks, 2 or 3 times per day is also more achievable than perhaps aiming for 10,000 steps over the course of a day. So less is sometimes more and that’s the message for our participants this time round.
With this shift in focus it’s hoped that many people who may not be aspiring to win the challenge, feel they can participate as well and achieve some real health benefits. There’s certainly something for everyone in this challenge and it’s about setting personal goals, this might be an introduction to becoming more physically active or it might be about improving fitness levels. It doesn’t have to be about finishing first!
To join in, you can register at: https://hwl.bigteamchallenge.com
The challenge begins, Monday 26th of March – 10:00am.
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