Sports and Fitness

Sites

ACC SportSmart

ActiveSmart

Government initiative which aims to get New Zealanders more active. The website creates free personalised, tailored fitness and nutritional plans for those who register.

Everybody: Sports & Fitness

Written for New Zealanders, Everybody provides fact-sheets/ overviews on a variety of health topics. Articles are written by medical writers and reviewed by consumer health organisations and health professionals.

Green Prescription

A Green Prescription (GRx) is a health professional's written advice to a patient to be physically active, as part of the patient's health management.

Healthy Christchurch

An intersectoral initiative based on the WHO Healthy Cities model. The idea is that all sectors and groups have a role to play in creating a healthy city, whether their specific focus is recreation, employment, youth, environmental enhancement, transport, housing or any other aspect of city life.

LiveSmart

MEDLINEplus: Exercise/Physical Fitness

has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health (USA) and other trusted sources on about 500 diseases and conditions. There is also a medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.

MEDLINEplus: Sports Fitness

has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health (USA) and other trusted sources on about 500 diseases and conditions. There is also a medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.

Smokefree Sport

Sports Fitness and Recreation Industry Training Organisation (SFRITO)

works with the industry to set standards, develop new qualifications and create training systems to suit the needs of workplaces in the adventure tourism sector.