The "Active Program" continues its march Cotillas Towers, the municipality in which already benefited about one hundred people from this initiative promoted by the City of Las Torres de Cotillas and the Ministry of Health (through Foundation for Health Research and Training in the Region of Murcia).
"We seek to promote physical exercise sports creating healthy physical habits and motivating citizens to integrate them into your daily routine," says local councilor for Sports, Ginés Pérez Iniesta, who notes that on Sunday May 26 participants "Active Program" conducted different activities-like biking, Pilates or aerobics, at the Sports Center Towers.
"This initiative aims to improve fitness and promote physical exercise as 'medicine' to combat sedentary lifestyle and various cardiovascular and metabolic diseases (obesity, diabetes ...) as well as others of a psychological (depression, anxiety ...) or structural ( osteoporosis), "explains Pérez Iniesta.
Specialized supervision
As part of the Regional Health Plan 2010-2015, this program consists of physical exercises for strength, endurance, flexibility, coordination and balance, seeking a coherent and balanced improvement of physical fitness.
This exercise program lasts for 10 weeks, with a frequency of three sessions per week, one hour each, to complete 30 sessions, all of which are continuously monitored by the monitor exercise specialist Jorge health Sanchez Lorente.
"With the physical exercise we are better than before," said the program's users, example of the improvement in the physical condition, in mood and personal welfare causes this proposal.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas