Health and well-being

Work­ing and study­ing in ho­tel, restau­rant and cater­ing in­dus­try can some­times lead to long work­ing hours.  Stand­ing on your feet for many hours in a row, work­ing in a warm con­di­tions and deal­ing with stress in hur­ried sit­u­a­tions can be an is­sue some­times. It is im­por­tant to keep up with your per­sonal health and well-be­ing! Here are few web­sites and sug­ges­tions on how to im­prove your per­sonal health and well-be­ing.

Helmi Center – Sports Center at Malmi Campus

Perho also has its own sports cen­ter, Helmi Cen­ter,  lo­cated at Malmi Cam­pus.  Helmi Cen­ter pro­vides the stu­dents and staff of the Perho a ver­sa­tile frame­work for sport ac­tiv­i­ties both in work­ing and leisure time.

The Physical Activity Pie encapsulates the following recommendation

• Health is pro­moted by mod­er­ate-in­ten­sity aer­o­bic phys­i­cal ac­tiv­ity of at least 10 min­utes that ac­cu­mu­lates through­out a week to a to­tal of at least 2 h 30 min per week.
• An al­ter­na­tive is more-de­mand­ing, vig­or­ous-in­ten­sity aer­o­bic phys­i­cal ac­tiv­ity with an ac­cu­mu­la­tion of at least 1 h 15 min per week.
• In ad­di­tion, ev­ery­one needs mus­cle-strength­en­ing and bal­ance train­ing at least twice a week.

Notice also this

• Ac­tiv­i­ties with dif­fer­ent lev­els of phys­i­cal de­mand can be com­bined ac­cord­ing to a per­son’s own de­gree of phys­i­cal fit­ness.
• It is good to di­vide phys­i­cal ac­tiv­ity into sev­eral, at least three, days a week.
• From the per­spec­tive of health, even a small amount of reg­u­lar phys­i­cal ac­tiv­ity is bet­ter than none at all.

Fur­ther in­for­ma­tion about Phys­i­cal ac­tiv­ity pie and Ex­per­tise in the Pro­mo­tion of Health-en­hanc­ing Phys­i­cal Ac­tiv­ity is avail­able through UKK In­sti­tute.

More in­for­ma­tion about health pro­mo­tion can be found also from the web­site of Na­tional In­sti­tute for health and wel­fare.

Helmi-Center sports arena