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    Fit Tips: Creative and active

    Here are 10 tips to help you achieve 150 minutes of physical activity in a week, and to help you live a healthy lifestyle. See how many you can do in one week:

    1. Make an exercise game out of your favourite TV show, so every time a catchphrase is used you have to do 10 jumping jacks, etc.
    2. Volunteer to be a referee or coach for a local youth sports team
    3. Pay attention to recommended serving sizes
    4. Start a jogging group
    5. Order dressing on the side of salads
    6. Go on the haunted walk in downtown Kingston
    7. Incorporate games with movement into activities with friends, for example Twister or charades
    8. Make easy healthy meals using a crock pot and freeze extra servings for another meal
    9. Organize a fun sport tournament with friends
    10. Take advantage of the equipment desk at the ARC, whether its sport- or exercise-related