The Fitness Days in a few words… A special moment for sharing to raise awareness about the benefits of sports on health, in the company of sports and health specialists. This Saturday, April 14, from 10 AM to 6 PM, Public Day in the Albert 1st Gardens, Place Masséna.
An event to raise awareness about sports and health, an operation to allow everyone to access sports.
A moment of exchanges with sports and health specialists, this day is a fun way to assess your fitness, discover new activities while taking pleasure and caring for your health.
More than 150 people will participate in organizing this operation, including about thirty trained facilitators and Coach Athlé Santé, dedicated to supervision.
Eight activities offered to the public:
Pole vaulting (initiation and demonstrations at 11:30 AM and 4 PM), Climbing wall (continuous), Zumba and Krav Maga (11:15 AM and 2:30 PM)
, Collective stretching (11:45 AM and 3:30 PM), o Physical condition evaluation (Forme Plus Sport test) continuously, o Initiations and Nordic walking tours with Nice Matin (11 AM and 4 PM), o Kid Stadium (athletics discovery for 4-12 years olds) continuously o Endurance test (estimation of your running level, accessible to everyone)
Among the activities offered to the public from 10 AM to 6 PM at the “sport, health, and fitness” advice village, several new features will be showcased: demonstrations and initiations of POLE VAULTING, accessible to everyone, and a CLIMBING WALL to allow the younger ones to continue their discovery, a ZUMBA and KRAV MAGA demonstration will be offered by the EPMM and a COLLECTIVE STRETCHING session by Gym Dante Athlé Santé 06.
And like in 2011, the public will be offered 4 workshops:
NORDIC WALKING
• Initiation sessions of about thirty minutes
• Tours on a course lasting about an hour
• Guidance by certified Coaches Athlé Santé
FORME PLUS SPORT TEST
• Simple exercises to test your physical fitness (flexibility, endurance, strength, balance…)
• Supervision by certified facilitators
KID STADIUM
• Activities for young people aged 6 to 12
• 6 educational games to discover Athletics
• Supervision by federal facilitators
ENDURANCE TEST
• Calculation of your maximum aerobic speed
• Assistance and help in planning and programming runners’ training
• An ideal test for runners preparing for the Alpes-Maritimes Nice-Cannes Marathon 2012!
• But also a test accessible to all to start the revival of running!
All these workshops are part of a global setup around an advisory village where participants can meet doctors, physiotherapists, dieticians, patient associations, or sports health professionals.
Sports-Health: Diagnoform, a true fitness evaluation tool, in the presence of the patron of these days, Stéphane Diagana.
The Diagnoform allows, through nine simple and fun workshops, to test flexibility, speed, endurance, strength, and coordination and to compare the obtained profile to a national database by gender and age group.
In addition to this fitness test, awareness and information sessions on the benefits of physical activity will be offered by students from the Faculty of Sports Sciences at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis who will supervise young people for the occasion.
