teenagers’
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HOKK Blackpool has been working
with council-funded centre Connextions
Blackpool to offer impartial advice on
health to 13–19-year-olds. The partnership
also ran an activity week called Body
SHOKK for girls aged 16–18 to help
increase their participation in positive
activities and to reduce stress, improve
mental wellbeing and raise confidence. The
programme, which also focused on body
image, was delivered using aerobic activity
on dance mats and in the gym.
ZIGZAG
H
orndean Technology College is
continuing its 7.30am Fit 4 Learning
workout programme through the GCSE
exam period this month, after early
morning exercise proved to benefit Year
11 students’ performance in their mock
Getting girls active SHOKK and Connextions Blackpool ran a girls’ activity week
exams. The programme, held at the
school’s gym, includes use of ZigZag
dance platforms, Exer-Station Pro
computer games, a Sportwall reaction SPORTCAT LEADERSHIP AWARD
panel and ZigZag CV and strength kit.
Although the early mornings proved T
rixter has been working with schools to increase pupils’ participation in
physical activity by encouraging youths to lead the way. The SportCat
tough, the students remarked on the leadership programme, equivalent to a GCSE grade B, is designed to empower
difference the sessions made in making young people to take responsibility by choosing the music, creating their own
them more alert and willing to attend visuals and teaching their peers how nutrition and exercise affects the body.
and perform in class.
ENERJETIX on-site switching
P
recor’s eight-week, modular-based activity programme, called Enerjetix, is designed for
11–13-year-olds. It is designed to build physical confidence through activities such as P
rivately-owned On Site Fitness
has installed 10 resistance
catching, throwing, running, jumping, balance and co-ordination. Charts track how long machines from the isotonic Switching
participants spend exercising and at the end of the course points can be swapped for prizes. range at Landau Forte College in
Activities are divided between gym-based sessions and general sport activity – the A Derby, to be used by students for
Racquet class, for example, introduces the skills used racquet-based sports. The programme, circuit training and individual
currently running at several schools and council-run leisure centres, is intended to provide workouts. Designed with no settings
youngsters with the opportunity to exercise in a non-competitive environment. to adjust, except weight selection,
the machines are supposedly safer
than conventional strength stations
harpers strike programme and offer a fast and easy workout.
D
eveloped in association with Danny The entire workout is done
Ball and Liam Richards – a martial standing up to strengthen the
arts duo from ITV show Britain’s Got neglected core muscles, which are
Talent – the Harpers Strike scheme offers especially important for improving
martial art training and choreographed the core stability of young people.
routines for five- to 16-year-olds. The equipment is used as part of
Launched by Leisure Connection at nine the college’s curriculum and for
of its Harpers clubs, the programme is extra-curricular activities such as
divided into three classes – for five- to breakfast and after-school clubs.
seven-year-olds, eight- to 11-year-olds
Hit the spot Harpers’ martial
and 12–16-year-olds – and offers guidance
arts programme, Harpers Strike,
on how to eat and live healthily, as well as caroline wilkinson
targets fi ve- to 16-year-olds
activities to boost self-confidence.
healthclub@leisuremedia.com
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