There's a mountain of information on health, fitness and local sporting activity available on the internet, and some simple tips, from the Nottingham Evening Post on how to make physical activity part of your everyday routine. This website contains information on local sports clubs on the Get Active, Play Sport pages. The local authority for your area has information on their leisure centres, swimming pools, sports centres, parks and outdoor sports facilities. In addition, Nottinghamshire County Council manage the Country parks at Rufford, Sherwood Forest and Bestwood. Links to your local authority websites are contained on the Links page of this website. There are some excellent training programmes and information on the Experian Robin Hood Festival of Running website. If you would like to improve your running, or are interested in trying a marathon / half marathon for the first time, this is a great place to start looking. The Q-Active Project, a healthy workplace scheme, run at the Queen's Medical Centre and funded by Sport England has a wealth of great information on their site The Q-Active Project has produced some useful factsheets, which you can access for information:  Fitness Guru Jamie Baird has recently produced a couple of articles in the Daily Telegraph which give some top advice for those who do want to go to the gym to keep active and for those who have no intention of going anywhere near a gym! Keep watching this space for more information. |