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The goal is to promote the use and correct use of gymnastic devices located in six parks by establishing an exercise circuit. The council also guarantees the continuity of groups 4-40 that are formed by neighbors who go out for a walk for four days. the week forty minutes

The Governing Board has approved this morning the hiring of the program for the promotion of physical activity of groups 4-40 by the Department of Sports and Health, directed by Felipe Coello.

This program, which has a bidding budget of 220,000 euros, aims to promote the acquisition of healthy habits in the sedentary population of the municipality by encouraging the regular practice of physical activity to improve their health and wellbeing.

It is an initiative that is framed in a strategy of health promotion from a community perspective, integrated by several projects: the project of groups 4/40 and the dynamization of the biosaludables parks of the municipality, a novelty that is included in this contract .

In the project of groups 4-40, the fundamental objective is to promote the regular practice of moderate physical activity through the constitution and dynamization of groups of adults who are called to walk four days a week, for forty minutes a day, by routes designed in the environment close to your home.

On the other hand, as a novelty, the project has been created to revitalize the parks through a pilot plan that aims to promote the use and correct use of gymnastic devices by establishing a biosaludable circuit in 6 parks of the municipality.

Groups 4-40

This municipal initiative that was launched in 2008 and consists of the constitution of groups of groups of adults who are called to walk briskly for four days a week.

Until last 2017 a total of 22 groups, 1600 people registered and 600 people have been created who go out to walk daily distributed in the 22 districts and districts of the municipality accompanied one day a week by a professional specialist in physical activity and sport.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia