Walking is often the first activity adults engage in when starting to become more active. Find the right resources for you and your family, community, or business. Don’t forget to check your
local or neighboring town Recreation Department community center,
YMCA branch, or senior center for other program offerings.
Walk NH
Encourages walking as part of a healthy lifestyle. Earn an “I Walked NH” patch and certificate signed by Governor Lynch and First Lady Susan Lynch.
Foundation for Seacoast Health's Step It Up Seacoast Program
Contains information on activities, including a Passport to Walking brochure containg maps of 11 beautiful seacoast walks.
Shape Up America's 10,000 Steps Program
Ten minutes here, 10 minutes there, walk 10,000 steps each day to a healthier you.
“5-2-1-0 Healthy NH” Statewide public education campaign to promote better nutrition and physical activity to prevent childhood obesity. Downloadable display materials, handouts for parents and families, School Toolkit, and more.
Get Healthy, Be Active NH! N.H. Department of Health and Human Services site. Resources and activities for all ages to improve health through increased physical activity and healthy eating. Factsheets, KidPower newsletters, worksite wellness, and more.
Center for Health Enhancement, University of New Hampshire Nutrition, fitness, and health education and support for adults. Services include body composition analysis, dietary analysis, and counseling, health screenings, and a 10-week weight management program.
America on the Move National movement encourages making small changes to daily eating and activity choices. Personalized online resources and interactive tools.
Shape Up America Nonprofit organization offering many resources dedicated achieving a healthy weight for life.
Weight-control Information Network (WIN) Science-based information on weight control, obesity, physical activity, and related nutritional topics.
Active at Any Size A WIN guide for exercising the larger body.
Sisters Together: Move More, Eat Better National initiative to encourage African-American women to improve health through diet and physical activity.
Strength training will help people over 40 maintain healthy bones and muscle mass as they age. Keeping muscles strong also helps prevent people on weight-loss programs from losing muscle.
Strong Living Program
Developed at Tufts University the Strong Living Program
Prevent muscle-wasting (sacropenia) Important information about preventing muscle loss through nutrition and strength training.
Growing Stronger - Strength Training for Older Adults Resources from the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the whys, hows and wherefores of strength training.
The National Institute on Aging Many resources for older Americans, including a
downloadable exercise guide (warning: 88-page pdf)
