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- ActiveSmart
Presents information on physical fitness, nutrition, diet and lifestyle balance encouraging users to develop a personal training programme that works for them.
- Agencies for Nutrition Action update : raising awareness, shifting attitudes & changing behaviour
Newsletter of the Agencies for Nutrition Action (ANA), keeping New Zealanders up-to-date on current strategies to promote healthy eating and physical activity. Issues are available in full-text.
- Aikido Shinryukan
Aikido Shinryukan is the national organisation established to promote Aikido in New Zealand. Includes locations of Shinryukan dojos.
- Alexander technique : choose to change
The site of Association of New Zealand Teachers of Alexander Technique (aNZTAT). Contact details for teachers and an introduction to this technique used to achieve a natural, tension-free posture and ease in movement.
- Alexander Technique Teachers' Society, New Zealand (Inc)
About ATTSNZ and the Alexander technique which helps people to become more aware of balance, posture and co-ordination. Email and web addresses for teachers throughout New Zealand.
- Division of Sport and Recreation, AUT
Covers course information on programmes in health, fitness, sport and outdoor recreation, along with dance and holistic therapies at Auckland University of Technology. Includes details of the academic calendar and staff.
- Get Kids Active : active body, active mind
GKA site aims to help provide parents, teachers and caregivers with advice, resources and downloads about getting children physically active. Also includes recipes; obesity calculator; competitions and discussion groups.
- Go kids! : a physical activity and nutrition resource for OSCAR programmes
New Zealand-wide project to enhance the health and fitness of children participating in before school, after school and school holiday programmes through a set of resources that provides regular exercise activities and nutrition advice.
- Greetings! and welcome to the New Zealand fitness home page
Peter Mellow is a senior lecturer at the Auckland University of Technology. This site contains fitness articles and links to fitness courses and other relevant sites.
- Institute of Sport + Recreation Research NZ
About the institute at AUT. Information about staff, recent publications and the research programmes.in high performance sport, recreation and exercise undertaken at the institute.
- Karate New Zealand
About the association. Including coming events, results, member clubs, list of qualified instructors, rules of karate.
- Life in New Zealand Activity & Health Research Unit
LINZ is involved in the data collection and analysis of large national surveys within the areas of physical activity, sports injuries, nutrition and health, and conducts contract research for physical activity and health related organisations. It also maintains the 1989 Life in New Zealand Survey and 1997 National Nutrition Survey databases for ongoing analysis and interpretation. The site includes a list LINZ staff, project information, publications, and links to related sites. The report NZ Food : NZ People is available from the site in PDF format.
- LiveSmart / developed by the Cancer Society
Provides programmes and information on healthy living with diet and exercise plans to lessen the risk of cancer. Includes a corporate health plan for work places and the latest information from cancer research. Information is found under separate pages for: LiveSmart, MoveSmart, EatSmart, GrowSmart and StaySmart.
- Melissa Moon
Melissa Moon, New Zealand athlete and motivational speaker.
- Official 10000 steps program
Information on pedometers and the 10,000 steps daily walking programme.
- Physical Education New Zealand = Te Reo Kori Aotearoa
Promotes physical education within New Zealand, supporting educators by offering professional development, curriculum advice, networking opportunities and a newsletter.
- Project Energize : energize yourself with physical activity and health food
Project for primary schools to improve children's physical activity and nutrition, to improve their overall health. Includes information and ideas for teachers, parents and children.
- Register of Exercise Professionals
REPs provides a directory of exercise professionals and facilities; online magazine and details of initial and ongoing training courses.
- Rehabilitation and occupation studies, AUT
Courses and programmes offered in occupational therapy, physiotherapy and podiatry. Also home to National Institute for Rehabilitative Research and the Physical Rehabilitation Research Centre. Clinics staffed by students offer a range of affordable services.
- Robert Gemmell Tai Chi New Zealand
Offers information about the marital arts teaching system, its activities, history, the art of Tai chi and its health benefits.
- SFRITO : Sport, Fitness and Recreation Industry Training Organisation
Information about the organisation; qualifications; courses and resources available.
- Sing Ong Tai Chi
Sing Ong Tai Chi website introduces the principles of Yang style Tai Chi Chuan, and the founder of this particular school, Professor Yek Sing Ong. There are articles, schedules of classes and an extensive range of links to tai chi websites.
- Sport Taranaki
Sport Taranaki is a regional sports trust which aims to involve as many people as possible in activities and sports. Site gives details of local sports events, teams, coaches and also hosts links to individual sports bodies in the local area and across New Zealand.
- Sportscience : the peer-reviewed journal and site of the Internet Society of Sport Science
A peer-reviewed site for sport research. The main feature of the site is the journal Sportscience. There are also pages for messages on the Sportscience Forum (mailing list), and links to other sites.
- Taoist Tai Chi Society of New Zealand
The web site offers information about the Society, its activities, history, the art of Taoist Tai Chi and its health benefits. Includes a calendar of Tai chi classes held in various centres.
- Walking New Zealand
Website of the monthly magazine Walking New Zealand. Cover and contents page of the latest issue are available, as well as an events calendar.
- WalkIT : the walking resources database
Information resources to promote walking in New Zealand. Includes council policy documents and walking maps.