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#Moveweek

Published on October 2, 2014 in Generale. 0 Comments Tags: benessere, moveweek, movimento, UISP.

MOVE Week is an annual Europe-wide event and an integral part of the NowWeMOVE campaign. This year, MOVE Week will take place from 29 September to 5 October. The objective of MOVE Week is to promote the benefits of being active and participating regularly in sport and physical activity throughout Europe. A wide range of promoters of physical activity (who we call MOVE Agents) coordinate events, including existing and new physical activities, for MOVE Week. MOVE Week and the NowWeMOVE campaign are being coordinated centrally by the International Sport and Culture Association (ISCA) in collaboration with the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF). MOVE Week 2014 is financially supported by the European Union. MOVE Agents are the stars of MOVE Week. They make MOVE Week happen. A MOVE Agent can be a grassroots sport organisation, club, school, university, voluntary group, company, municipality/city or individual who organises a sport and physical activity event for MOVE Week. It is the MOVE Agent’s job to choose their event type and location, register it on the portal at moveweek.eu, gather the team they need to implement it, promote it in their communities and oversee it when it unfolds on the day(s). A MOVE Agent is a voluntary position, but ISCA and the National Coordinators in each country can give them advice on how to seek funding and support for their events. Toolkits, posters, flyers, banners and other promotional materials are also available to help MOVE Agents plan, gather support for, promote and stage their events

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The numbers of well-being

Published on May 18, 2014 in Stress. 0 Comments Tags: benessere, bere, Camminare, dormire, mangiare.

The numbers of well-being:

10,000 steps every day to do

90 minutes max of consecutive work

15 minutes of relaxation or meditation daily

8 hours to sleep every day

5 meals recommended to eat an average amount of 2000 kcal

5 minute break every 90 minutes working

2 liters of water to drink every day

3 km walking consecutively every day

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We need to reduce our daily stress

Published on March 26, 2014 in Stress. 0 Comments Tags: arianna huffington, benessere, salute, stress.

Arianna Huffington wrote on Republica.it of today emphasizing the need to reduce daily stress derived from the work as the need to improve the quality of life and maintain a health condition. At this regard, it is worth remembering what are the attitudes and behaviors that put at risk the people health and welfare:

excessive competitiveness,
accentuation of key words in everyday language, without it needs for this and tend to eat the last words of a sentence,
concern not to respect the terms of work delivery,
intolerance towards others and delay,
eager to receive reinforcements from others and tangible rewards,
constant state of physical and psychological alert that may lead to aggressive behavior,
be usually impatient with people and situations,
sufficiently attuned to the identification of specific targets, because more action-oriented ,
feeling of guilt while relaxing or resting,
overly critical toward themselves and others.

They are individuals who usually live their life always with the foot on the accelerator and they do not ever hold back. Although with a lot of energy, always in a hurry, go to the floor and never stop. This is their problem: consider every opportunity to slow down as a waste of time, since they have always focused on the next obstacle. The acceleration of the communication that we are living thanks to the diffusion of the mobile phone, e-mail and social networks, it made them even more prisoners of thisway of life.
Specifically, what are the aspects that most disrupt their health? The ambition, impatience or hostility? Longitudinal studies have found that individuals with high hostility scores, after 20 years from this evaluation had a higher frequency of deaths due to cardiovascular problems than those who had received low scores of hostility.
In addition, it is the association between hostility and cynicism that seems to produce such negative effects on personal wellbeing. The cynicism is explained in terms of mistrust in human nature, in ideals and social conventions.
In confirmation of this interpretation it has been shown that it is possible to work in a highly stressful environment, showing behaviors such as those described but maintaing a good health. This positive condition can be achieved if the people:

are committed not only to work but also to themselves, family and other values , thus avoiding falling into cynical attitudes,
believe to exert control over their professional and private life,
have a tendency to consider the changes in life as a challenge to manage, and not just as problems and concerns.

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Published on February 27, 2014 in Generale, Mental coaching and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: benessere, giorno, salute.

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Promote walking: an act of social responsibility for all

Published on February 6, 2014 in Generale. 0 Comments Tags: benessere, Camminare, cittadini, enti locali, motivazione, responsabilità sociale.

Walking is one of the primary human activities. Today it is possible to live seated passing from one seat to another. Therefore sports organizations and public institutions should promote a joint project to promote walking: it would be innovative and much needed to safeguard the welfare of the citizens.

Several psychosocial aspects involved in the success of this idea ; concern the substance of the perception that people have of:

how valuable and rewarding to walk in their city ,
which motivation the walk satisfies
as their overall well-being comes out strengthened.

These three aspects should reach to create a unique integrated individual model, which it allows to easily switch from the intention of walking (I would like to do) the action (I’m doing).

Being aware of these three aspects and their interaction becomes, therefore, necessary for the success of this walk project. We know that we appreciate the walk into town if:

we see others walk going to work,
there are green, safe and attractive spaces,
the streets are safe ,
pedestrian accidents are rare,
there are schools where you walk ,
the traffic is reduced.

In relation to the individual motivations, the people are oriented to perform an activity that:

reduces daily stress and improve mood,
increases a good relationship with the body,
takes place outdoors,
can be done with friends,
respects the individual rhythms and is moderately intense,
both easy and affordable.

The third aspect of this approach concerns the promotion of the welfare. This result derives from the interaction between the two aspects described and which relate to the criteria of walkability and motivation . When they meet the individual shows a higher level of personal satisfaction, which provides a better sense of well-being .

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Running and meditation

Published on May 18, 2013 in Corsa, Generale and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: benessere, buddista, meditazione, runner, Sakyong Mipham.

Accomplished runner and leader of Shambhala, Sakyong Mipham has found physical activity to be essential for spiritual well-being. In this practical and inspiring book, he offers simple lessons that meld mindfulness with physical movement which can be used by anyone – regardless of age, spiritual background, or ability. The result is an enhanced way of life – more energy, more focus, more patience – that will appeal to runners, spiritual seekers and anyone interested in great health and wellbeing.

(http://runningmind.org/)

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Sport for all in the US university

Published on April 24, 2013 in Generale and Giovani. 1 Comment Tags: benessere, Beverly Tatum, prestazione, salute, Spelman College, sport, sport per tutti.

The choice of Beverly Tatum, president of Spelman College, quit the sport business to invest in the well-being of the students through the dissemination of various forms of physical activity is undoubtedly a revolutionary choice that does not give priority to the development of the absolute sport performance but physical and psychological fitness. This choice responds to the rule that the sport/physical activity is for everyone, not just those who choose it as the main activity of their lives. I think the time has come to say again that sport is the only way to lead a physically active lifestyle and to combat the problems and diseases as a result of the movement absence. And then it is the best thing that the School promotes less athletes but more healthy and active students.

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Italy is not a country for sport youngs

Published on January 2, 2013 in Generale and Giovani. 0 Comments Tags: attvità fisica, benessere, esodati, giovani.

In Italy the 2012 year ended with the politic that in its programs did not talk about phisical activity and sport world who complains about this absence, without doing anything else. It’s a bad news for all of us who believe that having a physically active lifestyle is not only a hobby but a basic right for our well-being. Perhaps the worker problems come first, but are we sure to have the highest percentage of overweight children in Europe is a great record? They eat bad, do not exercise and stay too sitting at school and home. In the U.S. this problem has caused a campiagn by Michelle Obama, not just an ordinary person and it is starting to show positive results, as in the cities overweight is regressing. Italy is the country with the lowest number of hours of physical activity at school and there is no initiative to increase it. Must be three coaches of the national volleyball, rugby and cycling teams to talk about this Italian plague but their statements did not rise reactions. The future of young people it is also created thinking to children and adolescents who leave not only sports but also any form of physical activity since the secondary school and they will rarely come back. We cut our children’s legs from the beginning of their lives and that’s why we are not a country for young people.

(From http://www.huffingtonpost.it/../../alberto-cei/lo-sport-e-assente-dallag_b_2381927.html)

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Take care of your body

Published on December 4, 2012 in Generale. 0 Comments Tags: benessere, Corpo, cura.

Yesterday I published an article talking about the relevance of the movement for an healthy life. Today I report a sentence to push each of us to have a true physically active life.

“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”

Jim Rohn (Americal speaker and Author)

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To help people to find the reasons to be physically active

Published on November 10, 2012 in Generale. 0 Comments Tags: benessere, movimento, obesità.

Every day it’s published a research on how important it is for our well being to lead a physically active life, this last tells us that few hours of movement a week lengthen the life of a few years (www.repubblica.it /salute)

It’s, however, equally important to understand how to promote physical activity in Italy knowing that among those who do not do sport on an regular basis:
• 1 male on 2 is overweight
• 1 male /women on 10 are obese
• 1 women on 3 is overweight

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