Carbon Free Exercise

1. Carbon Free Exercise Making a healthy lifestyle sustainable

2. Sustainable Exercise is 3 dimensional! Sustainable exercise limits the effects on the environment Sustainable exercise limits the effect on your bank balance Sustainable exercise is easily accessible ensuring that you are motivated to make it a part of your everyday routine

3. Using a treadmill Using a treadmill for 30 minutes will generate approximately 1 kilogram of Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

4. If you use a treadmill three times a week, 52 weeks a year, you are adding about 140 kilograms of carbon dioxide to your carbon footprint (aboutmyplanet.com)

5. Driving the greenest family car (130g/Km) (whatcar.com) to and from the gym (1 mile away) to get to your treadmill 3 times a week would create another 65kg of carbon dioxide

6. That is a total of 205kg of carbon dioxide created when you could simply get outside and go for a run! Running outside reliably burns more calories and provides more realistic fitness benefits than running on a flat treadmill

7. According to research by Sainsbury’s, the average gym costs £442 a year….. but millions fail to use memberships they are paying for every month

8. Carbon free exercise is about getting all the health benefits without the damaging the environment or your bank balance!

9. At home you can train cardiovascular fitness, muscular endurance, strength, power and a lot more! So you get the benefits without the cost to you or the environment

10. Stair climbing Cardiovascular exercise to train the heart and lungs. Essential for daily fitness and combatting disease Jumping Jacks

11. Strength Training at home need not be a chore! Tricep and back training Old containers make great weights. Training the arms couldn’t be easier. Remember a 1 litre bottle full of water will weigh 1Kg, 2 litre will weigh 2kg and so on. Bicep training

12. Strength Training need not require any weights except your body! Modified press ups can be a good start for the arms, chest and core abdominal muscles Classic press ups are the next step Press ups on a ball or inclined are the most difficult challenge!

13. Sticking with body weight exercises dips can train the back of the arms (tricep) Variations on the “plank” can train the core muscles leading to improved posture

14. More body weight based exercise that can help train the legs for power and strength

15. Good flexibility and range of movement can help daily tasks become easier

16. What is regular exercise? OR The NHS suggests that 75 minutes per week of intense physical exercise (running/games sports) would be an alternative The American College of Sports Medicine recommends at least 30 minutes of moderately intense exercise (walking fast/hiking) 5 days per week (150 minutes total) to improve and maintain physical fitness Regardless of which of the above is carried out you should also be carrying out muscle strengthening exercises 2 or more days a week that work all the major muscle groups

17. The Benefits of regular Exercise