Health and Fitness
Leading a healthy lifestyle will help prolong your life and provide a better quality of life. Health is about adopting a healthy lifestyle rather than just doing one thing right, eg being on a diet.
A healthy lifestyle is about exercising regularly, eating healthy food, and also having a healthy mind set.
Joining a gym or sports club is one way in which you can make a lifestyle change. But it is also important to remember that the outdoors presents many opportunities such as walking, gardening, cycling, etc.
The best way to get started is to do activities with friends and family and to build it into your weekly routine. Try to make the activity a social experience.
Click here to download Active People Survey Results
The links below offer some local opportunities for activities you could do in your own time;
Healthy Routes
Click here to view local health routes; some of which are also suitable for cycling and wheelchair users
Click here to view information on walking in Chester and Cheshire
Click here to link to www.cheshire.gov.uk/countryside/walking (external link)
If you are interested in plotting routes to walk, run or cycle click here to link to www.mapmywalk.com
Local Cycle Information
There are numerous cycle routes into and around Chester. The links below provide maps of the various routes.
Aswell as providing a map of possible lower traffic routes accessing the city from the surrounding residential areas, the council has also produced a map that will give a guidance of approximate times for your journey. Please visit the link below to access Chester's travel time map.
For further information concerning cycling in Cheshire, please visit links below.
- Click here to visit Connect 2 Cycling and Walking initiative
- Click here to visit Sustans Cycling
- Click here to visit the National Cycling Network's Website (external link)
- Click here to link to http://www.chestercycling.co.uk/ (external link)
- Follow this link to www.cheshire.gov.uk/countryside/cycling (external link)
- Click here for Gwydyr Forest Cycle Routes (external link)
For information about safe cycling
- Highway Code - Cycling Information (external link)
- How to start cycling (external link)
- Drive Safe Cycle Safe (external link)
- Cycle Your Way to Fitness (external link)
Swimming Challenge
Click here for a link to a healthy swimming programme; challenge yourself to get fit! (external link)
Family Activities
Delamere Forest - Click here to view details on walking, cycling and facilities at the forest (external link)
Moel Famau - a good walk at all times of year. Follow this link for further info (external link)
Sandstone Trail - A great walk spreading over 32 miles from Frodsham to Whitchurch. But fear not the trail is broken down into 3 sections making each section a good days walk. Follow this link for more information regarding the Sandstone Trail (external link)
If you are looking for a like minded group to join, to help motivate you while exercising, 'The Ramblers Association Cestrian Group' is holding numerous walks in the area. The first 3 walks are free as a guest but after that you must join the group at a cost of £27.00 a year.
For more information visit their website at,
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