Sport and Wellbeing
Four time Tour de France stage winner
Dylan Groenewegen Dylan Groenewegen headlines fifirst riders revealed for OVO
Energy Tour of Britain
continued his stellar 2019 season by winning the opening stage of the Arctic Race of Norway last week.
Further rider announcements will be made over the coming days in the build up to the OVO Energy Tour of Britain, which begins from George Square in Glasgow on Saturday 7 September and concludes for the fifirst time in Greater Manchester on Saturday 14 September.
The OVO Energy Tour of Britain is British Cycling’s premier road cycling event, giving cycling fans the opportunity to see the world’s best teams and riders competing on their doorstep and helping to build a great cycling nation.
The local route is...The eighth and fifinal leg of the Tour is a 165 kilometre circuit of all Greater Manchester’s 10 boroughs including Oldham and Tameside on September 14.
Entering Saddleworth from Mossley by The Royal George pub at Greenfifield, the route travels into Uppermill via Well-i-hole and then on to Delph.
There is one of the day’s toughest climbs as riders will tackle Grains Road for a King of the Mountains challenge before heading to Rochdale via Buckstones Road.
ITV4 will once again screen live free-to-air coverage flflag-to-flflag of each stage in the UK, along with a nightly highlights programme of the best of the action.
Four-time Tour de France stage winner
Dylan Groenewegen will return to the OVO Energy
Tour of Britain this September for his third
appearance in the UK’s biggest professional cycle race.
The 26-year-old Dutchman has ridden in the OVO Energy Tour
of Britain twice before winning stages
on both occasions, in Builth Wells in 2016
and Cheltenham in 2017, as well as taking
the Cetaphil Points classifification on his fifirst
appearance.
Joining him on the provisional start list are two
further OVO Energy Tour of Britain stage winners, Matteo
Trentin and Cameron Meyer of Mitchelton-SCOTT.
Groenewegen won stage seven of the Tour de France this
summer, as well as helping his Jumbo – Visma squad to victory
in the race’s team time trial. The remaining fifive members of
the Jumbo - Visma team for the OVO Energy Tour of Britain will be confifirmed closer to the race, but could include Laurens De Plus, who claimed his maiden stage race victory at the weekend by winning the Binck Bank Tour in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Another rider clinching stage race success at the weekend ahead of the OVO Energy Tour of Britain was Ben
Hermans (Israel Cycling Academy) who won two stages and the overall of the Tour of Utah.
The 33-year-old Belgian comes to the race on a strong run of form that saw him win the Tour of Austria in July for the second successive year, and fifinish runner-up in the
Adriatica Ionica Race in Italy in early August.
Former European champion Trentin won Stage Six of the 2015 in Nottingham, while Australian rider Meyer took Stage Two in Barnstaple last September.
Already confifirmed for the OVO Energy Tour of Britain is multi-talented Dutch rider Mathieu van der Poel (Corendon – Circus Cycling Team), who
  Images: Dylan Groenewegen and Cameron Meyer taking wins in the OVO Energy Tour of Britain.
Images credited to ‘SWPix’.
         MAKING YOUR
CHILDREN’S LIVES
MORE ACTIVE
By Andy Yates (Personal Fitness Instructor)
Its so important for kids to keep active and healthy. If you start them from a youthful age thinking about exercise, then they are more likely to stick with it throughout their life time and it will then it will hopefully become a habit rather than a chore.
   TV and video games have replaced sports for many kids.They need to spend less time on computer games and more time keeping active which is good for their fifitness levels and overall well being. Exercise also helps kids to control blood pressure, develop muscle and bone strength, and improve heart function. It is important for your child to be active.This is a lesson you should teach them at an early age, remember that you’re a role model for your child.
I have grown up playing sport and going the gym, now it is a habit and I fifind it weird not exercising but many people haven’t done this so when they decide to look after their body and get active it’s so hard to get into. Whereas if you start your child exercising from an early age they will
1. Type rope walking - Walk in a straight line forward and back for 30
seconds keeping hips square and feet
pointing forward, every step you should land heal to toe so the feet never separate also keeping good posture (chest and head up).This is a good exercise to improve balance and get children walking and moving correctly.
2. Balance on one leg for 20 seconds trying to keep your hips straight and not lean to one side with a slight bend of the knee and all your body weight in the middle of the standing foot.
3. Plank – keep elbows in line with chest and body in a straight line with feet on the flfloor and hold this position for 30 seconds and focus on breathing in and out controlled.
4. Burpees, squat down to flfloor then press hands on the flfloor and at the same time jump both legs back simultaneously until your body is in a straight line then jump both feet back to chest level then jump up to starting position and repeat for 30 seconds.
5. Run forward and backwards focus on keeping tall with a slight lean forward and try not to be too flflat footed, then running backwards try and keep toes pointing forward and keep in a straight line.
6. lateral side step, so many people www.Around S A D D L E W O R T H .co.uk
struggle moving laterally as it’s not a movement we do often so next exercise is a lateral side step for 30 seconds, side to side keeping toes pointing forward and try not to catch your feet (little steps). Put 2 markers around 6 meters apart and that’s the distance to move to laterally.
7. bear crawl, this is a
functional exercise which works your core legs and upper body whilst improving stability.You basically
crawl like a baby on hands and knees however your knees are elevated just above the flfloor keeping your back flflat and move opposite leg and opposite arm forward at the same time keeping your eyes just in front of your hands.
If you are struggling to motivate your child to do this work out, as children can be hard to persuade why not consider a gym that offers teenage gym sessions or personal training where the trainer will have more authority.Another fantastic way to trick children into exercise is swimming which will get their heart rate up and it can be fun and easy to do. Make sure your children have at least one active hobby that continues through primary and secondary school this will keep them healthy, social and active. Get your child active now and in turn they will be thanking you for a lifetime of health and happiness.
get into a healthy and active lifestyle.
If you see a young child squat down you will see they do the perfect squat. This is because their mobility is great and they haven’t got any imbalances or injuries or poor posture so it is important to keep these movement patterns good so this workout will enable your child to improve their fifitness levels and upper body and core whilst improving their motor skills and keeping movement patterns good.
I have designed a simple full body children’s work out to do which will keep them fifit and healthy.
Every exercise is for 30 seconds then rest for 20 seconds to bring their heart rate back down then repeat a total of 3 sets per exercise then move on to the following exercise....
Mini workout for children
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