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MEMBERS of the influential Association for Physical Education will now receive a subscription to Future Fitness as part of their membership benefits.
The deal has been
welcomed by afPE chief executive Margaret Talbot who said: “When we saw the first edition of Future Fitness, we were impressed by its coverage of a range of issues and by the fact that there was news from right across the UK.
“This provides an additional source of information for our members and a channel for us to inform colleagues in other organisations about our activities and opportunities.
“We hope our members will enjoy this additional service, which adds to the value provided for their annual subscriptions.”
Future Fitness editor Andrew Harrod added: “We are happy to support the good work the association does by distributing our magazine to its membership.”
MEMBERS of the influential Association for Physical Education will now receive a subscription to Future Fitness as part of their membership benefits.
The deal has been
welcomed by afPE chief executive Margaret Talbot who said: “When we saw the first edition of Future Fitness, we were impressed by its coverage of a range of issues and by the fact that there was news from right across the UK.
“This provides an additional source of information for our members and a channel for us to inform colleagues in other organisations about our activities and opportunities.
“We hope our members will enjoy this additional service, which adds to the value provided for their annual subscriptions.”
Future Fitness editor Andrew Harrod added: “We are happy to support the good work the association does by distributing our magazine to its membership.”
Sprint aces target children in deprived areas for events
CHILDREN in the UK’s most deprived areas will be invited to a series of street athletic events by Olympic champions Linford Christie and Darren Campbell.
The sprinting aces hope the programme will help encourage more children to take up atheletics and improve their confidence and self image.
In an exclusive interview with Future Fitness, Linford Christie said: “Kids engaged in sport have less time to get into mischief. Sport can play a huge part in engaging young people and can reflect positively in other areas of their lives.
“The aim is for kids from all areas feel welcome to take part in the events and are encouraged to use the sports facilities provided by the council and join a local athletics club.”
The events, at venues across the UK, will see children race each other over 60 metres and be in with a chance of competing in a grand final in Manchester, to win a one year kit contract with Reebok.
Linford added: “When we were kids we would challenge kids from other estates and neighbourhoods to race against us, if we hadn’t done that we wouldn’t have got where we are today, so we thought we would bring it back.
“We set up 60 metres wherever we can find space and kids come along and race. We did one in an Asda car park once, the weather was really bad and we were worried that no one would turn up but we had more kids turn up than any other.”
This year’s event, is being backed by Sport England, the Scottish Executive and is the third event since the programme launched in 2005.
Linford said: “We are doing something nobody else is doing everybody is sitting back and talking about child obesity but we’re taking the first steps in hopefully showing kids that exercise can be fun.
“You can’t get any basic than street athletics and any child can attend, we don’t differentiate.
“The best thing about it is the kids don’t need anything to come and take part. No expensive equipment, no club membership, no entry fee, just a desire to take part.”
CHILDREN in the UK’s most deprived areas will be invited to a series of street athletic events by Olympic champions Linford Christie and Darren Campbell.
The sprinting aces hope the programme will help encourage more children to take up atheletics and improve their confidence and self image.
In an exclusive interview with Future Fitness, Linford Christie said: “Kids engaged in sport have less time to get into mischief. Sport can play a huge part in engaging young people and can reflect positively in other areas of their lives.
“The aim is for kids from all areas feel welcome to take part in the events and are encouraged to use the sports facilities provided by the council and join a local athletics club.”
The events, at venues across the UK, will see children race each other over 60 metres and be in with a chance of competing in a grand final in Manchester, to win a one year kit contract with Reebok.
Linford added: “When we were kids we would challenge kids from other estates and neighbourhoods to race against us, if we hadn’t done that we wouldn’t have got where we are today, so we thought we would bring it back.
“We set up 60 metres wherever we can find space and kids come along and race. We did one in an Asda car park once, the weather was really bad and we were worried that no one would turn up but we had more kids turn up than any other.”
This year’s event, is being backed by Sport England, the Scottish Executive and is the third event since the programme launched in 2005.
Linford said: “We are doing something nobody else is doing everybody is sitting back and talking about child obesity but we’re taking the first steps in hopefully showing kids that exercise can be fun.
“You can’t get any basic than street athletics and any child can attend, we don’t differentiate.
“The best thing about it is the kids don’t need anything to come and take part. No expensive equipment, no club membership, no entry fee, just a desire to take part.”
Lady Isabella urges nation to dust off their trainers
By Francess Sykes
LADY Isabella Hervey is encouraging the nation to dust off their trainers to travel the circumference of the earth in a bid to raise funds for sports clubs for blind children.
The Celebrity Love Island personality and fitness guru will lend her support to the event which will see people from all walks of life collectively complete the circumference of the earth, 24,901.55 miles.
The event runs on two separate levels: the Team Challenge and Miles4fun.
The national team competition is an extreme physical challenge for teams of four people with
an eight hour time limit to complete as many miles as possible on cardiovascular gym equipment.
Teams will need to keep their equipment in action for the full eight hours and will be competing against other teams across the country.
Miles4Fun is set in the grounds of a selection of Hilton hotels along a one mile route
that starts and finishes at the hotel.
Individuals are asked to set themselves the challenge of completing the route as many times as possible within a two hour time frame in whatever manner they wish.
Action for Blind People will receive 50 per cent of the net profit from the event and this will go towards Action’s 24 Actionnaires sports clubs for blind and partially sighted children.
By Francess Sykes
LADY Isabella Hervey is encouraging the nation to dust off their trainers to travel the circumference of the earth in a bid to raise funds for sports clubs for blind children.
The Celebrity Love Island personality and fitness guru will lend her support to the event which will see people from all walks of life collectively complete the circumference of the earth, 24,901.55 miles.
The event runs on two separate levels: the Team Challenge and Miles4fun.
The national team competition is an extreme physical challenge for teams of four people with
an eight hour time limit to complete as many miles as possible on cardiovascular gym equipment.
Teams will need to keep their equipment in action for the full eight hours and will be competing against other teams across the country.
Miles4Fun is set in the grounds of a selection of Hilton hotels along a one mile route
that starts and finishes at the hotel.
Individuals are asked to set themselves the challenge of completing the route as many times as possible within a two hour time frame in whatever manner they wish.
Action for Blind People will receive 50 per cent of the net profit from the event and this will go towards Action’s 24 Actionnaires sports clubs for blind and partially sighted children.
Darren hits out at play area sell-off
Exclusive By Francess Sykes
OLYMPIC gold medalist Darren Campbell has slammed local authorities for selling off children’s play areas to property developers.
In less than ten years, councils across the UK have sold off 183 playing fields – but government rules say that cash made from the sale has to go back into school sport.
But Darren Campbell says it’s not enough. He added: “Let’s forget about the good old days because thousands of school playing fields and parks where all the kids have gone and played, are being sold and houses built on them. Now the children are on their laptops, PSPs and watching too much telly. We’ve got to find a way of bringing them back and getting them interested in sport again.”
Darren says because of the lack of outdoor facilities and the increasing numbers of children hooked on computer games that other alternatives need to be provided to keep kids fit.
The former 100m sprinter has recently become the ambassador for GymKids, specialist in fitness equipment for kids. He said: “People have criticised this equipment saying that it will stop children going outside to play but kids are already not going outside to play. If they are indoors anyway let’s try to get them using exercise equipment.”
Darren took the decision to back GymKids after getting the opinion of his two sons. Darren said: “I let my kids be the judge, I don’t think you should be pushing something if you don’t believe in it. Them going on it was the test. It worked for them and hopefully it will work for other kids.”
Just last month, Future Fitness reported on a ‘super school’ in Peterbrough to be built without a playground. Experts branded the decision ‘inhuman’ but the school’s headmaster defended the move insisting playtime is an inefficient use of time.
He said: “The world of employment, further education and training is not characterised by running around in a playground to let off steam.”
Exclusive By Francess Sykes
OLYMPIC gold medalist Darren Campbell has slammed local authorities for selling off children’s play areas to property developers.
In less than ten years, councils across the UK have sold off 183 playing fields – but government rules say that cash made from the sale has to go back into school sport.
But Darren Campbell says it’s not enough. He added: “Let’s forget about the good old days because thousands of school playing fields and parks where all the kids have gone and played, are being sold and houses built on them. Now the children are on their laptops, PSPs and watching too much telly. We’ve got to find a way of bringing them back and getting them interested in sport again.”
Darren says because of the lack of outdoor facilities and the increasing numbers of children hooked on computer games that other alternatives need to be provided to keep kids fit.
The former 100m sprinter has recently become the ambassador for GymKids, specialist in fitness equipment for kids. He said: “People have criticised this equipment saying that it will stop children going outside to play but kids are already not going outside to play. If they are indoors anyway let’s try to get them using exercise equipment.”
Darren took the decision to back GymKids after getting the opinion of his two sons. Darren said: “I let my kids be the judge, I don’t think you should be pushing something if you don’t believe in it. Them going on it was the test. It worked for them and hopefully it will work for other kids.”
Just last month, Future Fitness reported on a ‘super school’ in Peterbrough to be built without a playground. Experts branded the decision ‘inhuman’ but the school’s headmaster defended the move insisting playtime is an inefficient use of time.
He said: “The world of employment, further education and training is not characterised by running around in a playground to let off steam.”
