Generation Pep at their press release:
Breaking off sedenraty also breaks off many of the negative effects. Who trains a couple of times a week is affected by sitting long periods. The important thing is to break off the long sedentary moments in everyday life.
Therefore, Generation Pep has taken the initiative Upp och hoppa, Sverige! (Jump up, Sweden!) Together with partners, Generation Pep now encourages more to engage and break off sedentary because children do as adults do, not as they say.
Generation Pep's partners at Upp och Hoppa, Sverige!
Academic Work, ActiveS, Alla på Snö – Svenska Skidförbundet (Everyone on Snow - The Swedish Ski Association), Awapatent AB, Bonnier Carlsen, Bounce, En Frisk Generation, Skolklassikern - En Svensk Klassiker, Familjen Erling-Perssons Stiftelse, Forsman & Bodenfors, Friluftsfrämjandet, Friskis & Svettis, GIH - Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan (The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences), Gålöstiftelsen, Göteborgs universitet, H&M, ICA, ICA Stiftelsen, Idrottsgalan (The Sports Gala), IKEA Sverige, Mai-Lis Hellénius, professor, Karolinska Institutet, Martin & Servera, McKinsey & Company, Kronprinsessparets Stiftelse (The Crown Princess Couple's Foundation), Leos Lekland, Metro, MTG, Norrsken House, Parasport Sverige, SCIF (Sveriges Centralförening för Idrottens Främjande, The Central Association of Sweden for promoting the development of sports), Serus, Stiftelsen Marcus och Amalia Wallenbergs Minnesfond, STIGA Sports, Sverige United, Telia, Trivselledare, TV4.
Upp och hoppa, Sverige! Bryt stillasittandet för alla barn och... - Generation Pep
GEN-PEP's project leader Carolina Klüft was today at the Riksdag (Parliament) and kept an exercise pause there. Video
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Here with one member of Parliament.
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Carolina Klüft in the cover of Metro
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Carolina Klüft on the new initiative: "We must break the sedentary"
Carolina Klüft encourages movement joy along with Generation Pep and Metro.
The non-profit organization Generation Pep, with Prince Daniel and Carolina Klüft in the lead, arranges now "Up and Jump Sweden-Day" to visualize the sedentary.
Generation Pep is launching the initiative (Upp och hoppa, Sverige" ("Jump up, Sweden" this year. Together with a number of collaborators, including Metro, Generation Pep will get Sweden to break off the pattern with sedentary.
- It's a bit like earth hour. It's a campaign day to highlight sedentary. All our partners will take different initiatives to make this happen in some way.
It is the joy of sport and community issues that has made Carolina Klüft engaged in issues relating to young people's health.
- I have a background as an athlete, but have always talked a lot about the joy of sport and how it is my main motivation source. Therefore, this question is very close to my heart. And I have the opportunity to talk about this and affect society. I'm just doing my little part.
Mai-Lis Hellenius, professor and chief physician at Karolinska Institutet warns for sedentary, as studies have shown that for every hour we sit down, life is shortened by 22 minutes.
- Sweden belongs among the most sedentary countries in the world, while we are one of the countries that exercise the most. We exercise intensively for short periods of time, but sit most of the time. This applies to both adults and children. As we sit down, we lower energy consumption, leading to abdominal fat, diabetes and, in some cases, cancer, says Mai-Lis Hellenius.
To those who feel the motivation diminishes as soon as they step into a gym, Carolina Klüft has some tips.
- This is about everyday training and moving pleasure. Take the stairs instead of the lift, up and jump for a minute, or jump off a station before yours. Then maybe not everybody can do this, but you are moving to your ability of course.
What are you going to do during this day?
- I get practice so naturally in my everyday life, but I love to dance so it can be a little dance break!
Carolina Klüft om nya initiativet_ _Vi måste bryta stillasittandet_ _ Metro