Exercise for seniors [City of Tampere]

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Sports counselling

The sports counsellor can provide guidance and tips for starting physical activity and tell the customer about sports facilities and instructor-led groups.
Tips for improving your fitness

You can use these movements as individual exercises, parts of a daily exercise routine or in connection with other types of training.

Sports services organize reasonably priced sports for the seniors. In the summer, there are plenty of free guided exercise is also organized in Tampere's parks and nature trails.

The goal of guided exercise for people over 60 is to maintain and improve the functional capacity of the musculoskeletal system, without forgetting recreation and making new friends. These 60+ groups are suitable for beginners.

Strength in Old Age groups are for people aged 75 or over, or those with a reduced functional capacity. The groups are suitable for persons who need mobility aids. The objective of the exercise groups is to improve and maintain the participants’ health, functional capacity and physical fitness as well as to offer them social contacts, joy and recreation.

I would like to increase exercise, what would I do?

Do you need support in starting a sports activity? Do you find it difficult to come up with new ways to exercise, for example after an illness? The sports counsellors will give you tips that respond to your individual needs, helping you find motivation and promote your well-being. Do not hesitate to get in touch.

Tips for improving your fitness

Do you have an exercise ball knocking around in the corner of your living room but you do not know what to do with it? Go to the website "Tips for improving your fitness" to find instructions. This site also contains other great tips for maintaining your health.