The Councilor for the Elderly, Antonio Cavacasillas, talks with a monitor at the Nuria Cabanillas Pavilion. /
They will offer until May 31 activities such as hiking, paddle tennis, tai chi, table tennis, zumba or, as a novelty, chess
The Sports Schools for the Elderly of the Badajoz City Council will offer until May 31 activities such as hiking, paddle tennis, taichi or, as a novelty, chess, which will also reach the districts.
Included in the Campaign for Attention to the Elderly, it is an activity that started last week and will be present until May 31, as detailed by the Deputy Mayor for the Elderly, Antonio Cavacasillas, yesterday at the presentation of the programming of the Sports Schools for the Elderly in the Nuria Cabanillas Pavilion.
In this sense, he recalled that the Badajoz City Council launches these sports schools with the aim of “getting our elders in shape” and having fun through the practice of some sport or game, with the objectives that “always” have identified, how to motivate students, improve their physical condition, have a correct breathing or learn to have correct body postures, thus preventing them from being injured.
They are free and the only requirement to enter is to be enrolled in the fitness classes
Other objectives include playing sports in different environments, acquiring the habit of playing sports, socializing, and the psychology of self-improvement, “so important for our elders,” he stressed, along with the fact that the only requirement to enter sports schools is to be enrolled in fitness classes.
Once they are registered, the Department for the Elderly itself advises the elderly which would be the most suitable sport for each student according to their physical abilities in this sports school program which, as he recalled, are “absolutely free for our users”.
Specifically, the sports schools are hiking, paddle tennis, tai chi, table tennis, badminton, petanque, Zumba, walking footbal, indoor cycle, pilates, relaxation and this year as a novelty they also incorporate chess, after the “numerous” demands that have had from the elders.
“Another great novelty” according to the Councilor for the Elderly is that the City Council “has not left out” the districts, which the sports schools will also reach, specifically with sports schools in Valdebótoa, Sagrajas, Balboa, in Villafranco, in Gévora and in Novelda.
Finally, Antonio Cavacasillas took the opportunity to thank the “effort” made by the Municipal Sports Foundation, its councilor, Juancho Pérez, and its manager, Alberto Martínez, because they are “always” accompanying him and helping him in all the activities they carry out with older people. , fundamentally those that are linked to sports activities.
In short, he concluded, it is a “complete” program of sports activities for the elderly to get fit and have fun by playing a game or sport.
