Exercise for adults
New national sports policy guidelines and A moving adult program, a three-year (2022-2022) health promotion development project targeted at early-age, working-age and retirees has been launched in Äänekoski. The city offers free exercise counseling to those who need it and starts exercise groups targeted at working-age people.
For adults, individual provided by the municipality exercise counseling
- At the beginning of the three-year project, the more specific target groups for exercise counseling are those with pre-diabetes and diabetes, those struggling with weight control, and those who have abandoned their exercise habits due to mental health disorders for various reasons and need a new spark and help to start moving. In counseling, the emphasis is not only on exercise counseling, but the client's situation is examined as a whole, with a healthy lifestyle in mind.
- You can come to the municipality's exercise counseling with an exercise referral from the Äänekoski health center either from the diabetes clinic, physical therapy, medical care office or even a doctor's office. Our cooperation partners are also Ilona ry and Mehiläinen Äänekoski occupational health center, through which the municipality can get more information about exercise counseling. But contacting yourself is also enough, and can be the first step to a healthier lifestyle.
- Exercise and going for a walk are built together with the customer. For half a year, the project worker accompanies the customer's journey and little by little a suitable way is found for each to add steps to everyday life. There are 5-7 meetings with the exercise instructor during six months, depending on the individual needs of the client.
If you feel that exercise counseling could be useful for you, contact the exercise instructor and we'll talk more.
Terve Päivä digital service with help towards better lifestyles
The exercise counseling offered by the municipality has been supplemented with the TervePäivä digital path, which brings the expertise of several professionals within reach of customers and enables a flexible and interesting way to start enough 5 small changes in lifestyle!
In the Terve Päivä service, you advance on the digital path one week at a time, with small steps towards better lifestyles. Once a week you get a task in the service. You can ask the nurse specialist of the digital service when you have questions.
Versatile motivational content and audiovisual exercises give you the means to change and you get a lot of information to support you.
- An easy-to-use service that works on all devices (computer, tablet and smartphone).
- However, the service requires strong identification.
- More information on Terve Päivä lifestyle guidance
If you are interested - register with our sports advisor.
Fitness circle training in spring 2025
- Tuesdays at 16-17 A popular fitness group in the Hurrikaani hall of the Sports Center in Äänekoski.
- On 7.1. - 6.5.2025
- Price €36,40/semester
- The group is intended for people of working age who exercise too little in terms of their health and people who have just retired.
- Registrations and inquiries from the sports counselor (contact details below).
Gym start in spring 2025
- On Thursdays from 16.15:17.15 to XNUMX:XNUMX at the Suolahti swimming hall gym, Kuntosalistartti group.
- From 9.1 January to 8.5.2025 May XNUMX
- Price €36,40/semester
- The group is intended for people of working age who exercise too little in terms of their health and people who have just retired.
- Registrations and inquiries from the sports counselor (contact details below).
XL aqua gym in spring 2025
On Mondays at 12.30:13-XNUMX:XNUMX Äänekoski swimming hall in VesiVelho
The group is intended for people with a body mass index over 30.
Spring semester 13.1- 5.5.2025. Week 9 no group.
Price 3,50 euros / water jump
Registrations and inquiries from the sports counselor (contact details below).
XL gym group
Wednesdays from 15.15:16.30 to XNUMX:XNUMX in the Hurrikaani gym of Äänekoski Liikuntatalo.
The group is intended for people with a body mass index over 30.
Spring semester 8.1 January - 7.5.2025 May 9. Week XNUMX no group.
Price 36,40€/semester.
The instructors are the Peer Instructors of the Sports Services.
Registration Mon 19.8. from 8 a.m. phone 040 190 2748.
Adult health lectures, health theme weeks and testing days
In connection with the aforementioned exercise counseling project, Äänekoski will also start health lectures aimed at working-age people in the spirit of promoting an active lifestyle, which are planned to be held annually. You can come and listen to lectures on the spot or join virtually.
Every fall and spring, an Äänekoski in motion theme day is organized, where, for example, different communities present their own activities. During the days, there is also the opportunity to do small-scale fitness tests and get to know different sports in short non-stop workshops. Päivi also contains the latest information on the dosage of health exercise and the ongoing activities of the municipality and communities to promote health.
National health themed days and weeks will be taken into account as part of the municipality's sports activities more systematically in the annual calendar. For example, the aim is to make the students' mental health day in April a tradition in Äänekoski, and the theme weeks and days of various health organizations, such as the national diabetes day, are to be made a more visible part of the entire municipality's activities
More information about lectures and other events will always be provided as the schedules become more detailed. Follow the city's event calendar.
More information about EXERCISE FOR ADULTS and the health exercise project:
Äänekoski in motion health exercise project
Sports advisor
Anu Kaajalahti
040 190 2748
anu.kaajalahti@aanekoski.fi
