Stroke for Stroke - lose weight whilst raising and rowing this January!
Posted: 10/01/2010 at 08:36am by Rich Leigh, founder of Fat Free Fitness
If you’re one of the few who hasn’t yet ditched your New Year Resolution to lose weight, this blog may keep you on track – and you’ll be doing your bit for charity too. If you have let your New Year promise fall by the wayside, this may be a fantastic way to get you back in the saddle.
Electrics giants Siemens and The Stroke Association have launched the third annual Stroke for Stroke campaign, in a bid to raise awareness of stroke and to highlight the benefits of a healthy diet and regular exercise in its prevention, something Fat Free Fitness feel particularly passionately about.
The campaign, a joint initiative by The Stroke Association and Siemens, the High Performance Partner of the GB Rowing Team, is now in its third year and has raised over £70,000 to date by encouraging members of the public to complete a sponsored 10km row.
How to get involved:
1) Visit www.strokeforstroke.co.uk or call 020 7566 1503 to register and download your fundraising pack
2) Get training (warning: side effects may be fantastic post-Christmas overindulgence weight loss!)
3) Get your family, friends and colleague to sponsor you
4) Complete the 10km row between 25th and 31st January 2010
In addition to raising funds, the campaign aims to highlight that anybody, irrespective of age, can suffer from a stroke and that a healthy lifestyle, including a healthy diet and regular exercise such as rowing, can help to significantly reduce the risks.
The Stroke for Stroke campaign has teamed up with Nuffield Health to offer free access to their nationwide network of Fitness & Wellbeing Centres for everyone taking part in Stroke for Stroke – so you don’t have to pay a penny to get involved!
If rowing isn’t your thing, but you’d still like to help, you can still get involved by visiting the website and backing colleagues, friends and family or the GB Rowing Team, as they sweat their way towards the campaign.
Olympic gold medalist, Zac Purchase, is backing the campaign, “Regular exercise is a key factor in staying healthy and reducing the risk of stroke, and rowing is an ideal, all-round, low-impact workout. It’s great to be involved in the Stroke for Stroke campaign and we hope to help raise plenty of money and awareness.”
Andreas J. Goss, chief executive, Siemens in the UK, said: “Stroke is the UK’s third biggest killer and contrary to popular belief it can affect people of any age. Siemens is delighted to be able to use our partnership with GB Rowing to help build awareness, raise much-needed funds for The Stroke Association and to encourage people to take up regular exercise as part of an overall healthy lifestyle. I’ll be doing my bit, and encouraging our employees to do the same so please visit the website and have some fun taking part in Stroke for Stroke 2010.”
Head of Corporate Fundraising at The Stroke Association, James Beeby said: “Each year an estimated 150,000 people in the UK will suffer a stroke. Stroke for Stroke is now in its third year and a campaign like this is integral to raising awareness of how regular exercise and lifestyle choices can help prevent a stroke. This year we are anticipating an even greater number of people to get involved and support The Stroke Association’s vital research into stroke prevention and treatment.”
Team GB Olympic Gold medallist Zac Purchase is backing the campaign
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