Whatever your age, size or physical condition, you are likely to benefit from being more active. The people who benefit the most are inactive people who start to take regular, moderate activity.
Being physically active is a great way to have fun and spend time with friends and family as well as meet new people. It can improve your mood and self confidence as well as making you feel more energetic and help you sleep better. It can also reduce the risk of you getting a major chronic disease such as coronary heart disease, diabetes or high blood pressure and help you maintain a healthy weight.
Our aim is to encourage the people of Leeds to become more active by providing you with the information you need to get started and carry on.
Having an Active Lifestyle isn’t just for the sporty types, but can include anything that gets you moving. We want to help you find activities that you will enjoy and would consider trying either on your own, or better still with friends.
You can be physically active anywhere and at any time that suits your lifestyle. It could be in your home, your garden, in the local park, at a local community centre or leisure centre. Click on the downloads section to see some of the different type of activities you can get involved in such as walking and jogging, or why not try activities you may have enjoyed or been good at back at school such as rounders or netball?
Click on the downloads section for further information, or please contact our Active Lifestyle Officers:
South Central Leeds- Sam Coupland, Tel: 07891 274 517
East North East Leeds- Karen Peck, Tel: 07545 604 122
West North West Leeds- Louise Walker, Tel: 07891 279 298
