Tips for adding more movement to your daily life
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Grab UniSport's break exercise instructions here!
UniSport has produced break exercise instructions together with Tussitaikurit for University community, which provide tips for taking breaks during your working day or while studying. Save the instructions and print them out in A3 in the near your remote work or study area or coffee or break room.
How to add more movement simply to teaching!
In the University on the Move project funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture, UniSport has produced videos to give teaching staff tips for tools to increase movement in teaching.
Training videos for teachers have also been produced in Jyväskylä's Active and Wellbeing University project (fin).
Movement symbols
Add an activating movement symbol to lecture, meeting or meeting materials, for example in the top corner of presentation material. The movement symbol reminds participants to change working positions and the importance of even the smallest movement, and allows participants to stand up or take a break during the session. Introduce participants to the use of the movement symbol at the beginning of the session. You can find more movement signs in Word icons by searching for "sport.
Save movement symbols by clicking on the picture with left button and then click "save a picture."
Permission to move - university teacher's tips for movement in your everyday life
Break exercise videos
Use these easy and short break exercise videos on your lecture, or during your work or study day. Moves can be done also while sitting. There are videos in English, Finnish and Swedish, and with captions on these three languages.
How to add movement to everyday life? Check tips on the video!
On Näin lisäät liikettä arkeen -video you can find tips on how to add movement to your everyday life. Try which ones are the best for you! Video is spoken in Finnish and captions can be found in Finnish, English and Swedish.
Tips from other wellbeing organisations
Finnish Students’ Sports Federation (OLL)
OLL is a national advocacy and service organisation for student and higher education sports established in 1924. OLL’s goal is to ensure that students are exercise enough to maintain their health and wellbeing. On the For Students page, you can find information to support your wellbeing.
Finnish Student Health Service FSHS
Finnish Student Health Service FSHS
FSHS provides student health care services for university and higher education students completing a bachelor’s or master's degree. The website has plenty of information on health.
For example, you can use the FSHS guides and videos to take care of your posture and working positions.
Nyyti ry
Nyyti is a national non-profit organisation that promotes the mental health of students. Physical activity is part of taking care of mental wellbeing.
UKK Institute
The UKK Institute is a private research and expert organisation in the health and sports sector. It promotes the health and functional capacity of the population by reducing physical inactivity, physical injuries and leisure accidents and by increasing health-enhancing physical activity. On UKK Institute's website, you can familiarise yourself with the recommendations for physical activity for adults.
The website also contains plenty of material on the exercise programmes and exercise methods produced by the institute for different target and age groups.