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Benefits of Being Activeor

Activity is for Everyone

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How are these two friends feeling ?

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmgqAfWUX10

How does being active make you feel?

What sort of activities do you do enjoy in and outside school?

Which feelings are the most comfortable for you?

Happy As if I belong Confident

Safe Successful Upset

Relaxed Fed Up Worried

Bored Tired Scared

Why is it not good for our health if uncomfortable feelings continue for a long time?

Upset Fed Up Worried

Bored Tired Scared

Look how Darren found that physical activity really helped his happiness and friendships.

To celebrate Darren Wood reaching his milestone 500 runs we sent our reporter James Ball to chat to Darren to find out about his epic parkrun journey.

• James: So let’s go back to the start. Tell me a bit more about you and how you started running

• Darren: I was about 22 when I started parkrunning. My running journey started a few years before then, and my first event was the Grim Challenge. At the time I was smoking, quite unfit, but liked the idea of a muddy challenge! I can remember running round Richmond Park craving cigarettes, but quite soon realised I needed to knock that on the head! A year or 2 later, I heard about Bushy Time Trial …I thought it wasn’t for me, it was just for the fast runners, so I didn’t go to the first event, nerves got the better of me, but I did turn up for the second event, and realised there were people there that I knew from the club.

• James: So having lived through it all, how has parkrun changed your life, what has the effect of running 10 years at one event given you?

• Darren: I think it has definitely made me more consistent when running. I’ve also met a load of wonderful friends, both at Bushy and now at Frimley. You also meet some amazing people when you visit other events, and everyone makes you feel so welcome, you always have something in common with them. It’s the people for me which make parkrun, it’s not all about the running!!

Martine found that physical activity really helped her happiness and friendships.

''My life is more enriched now than it could ever be.' she says

• Ben's Story 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Zo8Ijn5oc

Look how Ben found that physical activity really helped his happiness and gave him a new circle of Friends.

These feelings are linked to being healthy.

Happy

As if I belong

Confident

Safe

Successful

Relaxed

Physical activity can help all of us stay healthy and happy.