Exercise and Health: the importance of physical exercise in the mountains

For the second year in a row, the land beyond is organizing an interactive and experiential mountain workshop on the value of exercise, a medicine for humans. The aim is to raise awareness amongst the middle and elderly public about the value of physical exercise as a preventive means of health, and the social importance of exercise for the value of mutual understanding and networking. In the walking and talking activities that are a trademark for the land beyond, there will be a parallel narration "The road and the path to the folk song and fairy tales". There will also be a parallel laboratory for stretching exercises.

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• Arrivals until noon
• 17.30 "Get together” in the land beyond - acquaintance with the three organizations (the land beyond, Exercise Is Medicine, Hellenic Network of Fragility Fractures (EDIKE) - presentation of three axes of activity
• Dinner

• 08.30 Morning walk on the path to the Monastery of Profitis Ilias
  Presentation "Road takes, road leaves ...: paths and paths in folk songs and fairy tales" by Fani Balamoti, philologist, PhD in Social Anthropology
  Stretching exercises laboratory
• 13.00 Light lunch - rest
• 17.30 Exercise is Medicine presentation in the following country
• 20.30 Dinner

• 08.30 Morning walk in Skala Vitsa and the Bridge of Missios
• 11.30
  Presentation by Elias Panagiotopoulos, EDKE Never New Fracture.
  The aging of the population is a global challenge, especially acute in our country. The combination of osteoporosis and sarcopenia (age-dependent reduction in muscle mass and strength, but also activities) leads to vulnerability, instability, falls and fragility fractures (FRA).
  
  Presentation "Beyond the exercise - Experiences from the EYDIA Healthy Living Laboratory” by Manolis Mentis.
  The purpose of the presentation will be to present problems through the implementation of a program to deal with falls in a sample of older people and how the combination of exercise, diet and animation can contribute to daily well-being and a new way of life.
• 14.00 light meal - rest
• 17.30 stretching exercises laboratory
• 18.30 Summary and Discussion in the land beyond, search for the creation of a European platform
• 21.00 reception in the land beyond

• 08.30 Morning walk from Vitsa to Monodendri via the path of Kokkinis
• 12.30 light lunch in Monodendri
• Farewell and departures