Steps of Improving Health

Here’s a list of possible first steps
you could take this week
Are you ready to take your first step? Make it easy:
• Get some information from your local
YM/YWCA or community centre.
• Call the Parks and Recreation Department
in your community.
• Talk to a health professional or a
physical activity expert.
• Talk to the counselling office at school or at work.
• Talk to friends who have built physical activity into their
daily routines and ask them how they got started.
• Go to the library and borrow a book on physical activity
and your health.
• Buy a pair of walking shoes.
• Check out what physical activity organizations exist in
your community.
• Call your provincial/territorial Recreation Department.
• Check out the Guide Website at www.paguide.com
• Call 1-888-334-9769 for more information.
• Find out if a nearby mall has a walking route posted or
a regular walking program.
• Make yourself a list of the reasons why you might want to
introduce physical activity into your life.
• Make a list of the health problems you already have that
physical activity might help to improve.
• Check out if there are walking paths in your community.
• Locate the parks in your community.
• Talk to a friend who might want to join you in your
changing lifestyle so you can move forward together.
• Watch classes at your community centre that you
might want to try.