Keeping active has real proven benefits for not just your physical fitness, but your mental wellbeing too.
SUPPORTING YOUR PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELLBEING DURING COVID-19
UWS Sport are here to provide a range of support to students and staff during the coronavirus pandemic to help maintain your physical and mental wellbeing.
Join the #UWSACTIVECOMMUNITY
Weekday live fitness workouts
We are currently delivering a programme of live online fitness classes. You can view and book these online or via an app called Playwaze. To see the schedule and book a class use the activity finder above. Select live fitness classes in the drop down menu and click find. To access via the app please download from here and sign up, then search for and join “UWS Active Community”.
Physical activity is a real brain booster, beats fatigue, and helps lower your stress levels too. We would encourage you to take part as often as you can and introduce these sessions to your daily routine along with the rest of the UWS Active Community.
On demand fitness workouts
If you want to exercise at different times to our live workouts, or try a different activity then why not pick a session from our on-demand library? We have collaborated with other Universities though the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) network to provide access to over 130 classes including body weight circuits, yoga, pilates, stretching sessions and much more.
You can access classes from the wider BUCS network find by clicking here. You will find UWS specific on demand classes in the activity finder above. Select on-demand in the drop down menu and click find. You can also access UWS content via the Playwaze app by downloading from here, signing up, and then searching for and joining “UWS Active Community”.
Guidance sheets for our on-demand videos are provided below:
Activity challenges
From mid-March we will be launching UWS Activity Challenges to help inspire and motivate you to be active as part of a wider community of activity. Challenges may include aims relating to the minutes of physical activity or steps that you achieve or the distance you run or cycle.
Once Challenges are launched you will be able to find and join these on the web by searching for challenges within our activity finder above, or by downloading the Playwaze app from here, signing up, and then searching for and joining “UWS Active Community”.
This Playwaze system will allow you to upload evidence of your progress or link your account to an activity tracker.
Keep an eye on this page and our social media accounts for updates.
HOW ELSE CAN I TAKE PART IN THE UWS ACTIVE COMMUNITY?
Tips of the day
Keep an eye on our Team UWS social media channels for tips of the day. Throughout January 2021 these tips will have a nutrition and diet focus with different topics focused on as the year progresses.
Our social media accounts are available on each of our campus gym pages here. You will can also see this content on the Team UWS Facebook and Twitter pages.
UWS Active Community Facebook group
As part of our efforts to promote the UWS Active Community, we have launched a new Facebook group in which you can engage more directly with all members of the community. You will find it here. This page features content from UWS Sport and allows members to share their own hints and tips, provide encouragement to each other and ask any questions you might have.
This Group is where you will find out first about how to engage in prize draws and reward initiatives as part of the campaign.
vlogs and blogs
Over the coming months we will be sharing a range of content with the UWS Active Community. These will include a range of vlogs and blogs that focus on all aspects of physical and mental wellbeing, including hints and tips from our staff and students.
We will post details of all of these here as they become available.
Pop-up sport activities
Unfortunately, due to current government guidelines we are unable to provide any on-campus sporting activities for the UWS Active Community. However, as restrictions hopefully ease in the Spring we will be hosting pop-up sport activities across our campuses as well as re-opening our gyms when it is safe to do so.
Keep an eye on these pages for the latest information.
ADDITIONAL ADVICE
The NHS recommends that adults do at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic exercise throughout the week – like a brisk walk, riding your bike, dancing or hiking – or 75 minutes of vigorous activity – including jogging or running, swimming fast, sports like football, rugby or hockey, or aerobics.
Whether you’re going for a walk, doing some yoga, heading out for a run or trying an at-home fitness classes – like our upcoming daily fitness videos, designed by our gym teams – there’s plenty you can do to keep on top of your physical and mental wellbeing.
GET INVOLVED
For more fitness inspiration, follow Team UWS on Twitter and Facebook, and share what you’re doing with #UWSactivecommunity.
FREE GYM MEMBERSHIPS
Since September 2018, we’ve provided free gym memberships for students at all UWS-operated fitness facilities. That means you get free access to our gyms in Ayr, Lanarkshire and Paisley – and classes too.
Last updated: 11/09/2020