Wellness Wednesday: Learn a new recipe each week
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Department: Parks and Recreation
Get moving with Asheville Parks & Recreation’s city-wide free Fit 50 Challenge
Ashevillians looking for motivation to get moving during colder months can join friends, neighbors, and other community members as the city runs, walks, and rolls during the free Fit 50 Challenge. Back for its second year, Asheville Parks & Recreation’s challenge allows participants to track their progress as they complete 50 miles between February 1-April 1.
Wellness Wednesday: Walking for fun and fitness
Walking is a great way to improve or maintain your overall health and wellness. Just 30 minutes of walking each day can increase cardiovascular and pulmonary (heart and lung) capacity, strengthen bones, improve balance, reduce body fat, and boost muscle power and endurance. It can also reduce your risk of heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, joint stiffness, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, and some cancers.
Wellness Wednesday: Try something new!
If you’re committed to trying something new, learning a new skill or hobby, and soaking up culture in 2022, Asheville Parks & Recreation has many free and low-cost opportunities for lifelong learning.
Weaver Park
Following improvements to courts, parking, and greenway circulation within Weaver Park, a new playground and ballfield improvements will expand recreation opportunities and continue the modernization of one of Asheville's oldest parks.
Asheville Parks & Recreation shares results of Magnolia Park playground survey
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Wellness Wednesday: Get active!
2022 is only five days old, but it’s a good time to assess early progress on your New Year’s resolutions. Research shows that setting small and measurable goals leads to higher success rates among participants who resolve to change some aspect of their behavior, accomplish a personal objective, or otherwise focus on self-improvement. If you aim to get more active this year, this could mean increasing time spent walking, in the fitness center, or dancing by five or 10 minutes each week until you reach your target.
Wellness Wednesday: Do your New Year resolutions include meeting new people and spending time with family and friends?
As the Asheville community reflects on the year that was 2021, many of us resolve to continue healthy habits, change some aspect of our behavior, accomplish a personal goal, or otherwise focus on self-improvement in the new year. Though the decision to make a life change can happen any time, studies have found a higher success rate among those who make the commitment as a New Year’s resolution.