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Plogging! Sport & Ecology - Healthy Balance

2022-1-PL01-KA152-YOU-0000673802022Mobility of young peoplefinalized
Countries: PL|RS|HU|LV|CZ|PT|LT · Grant: €28,532
Green skillsPhysical and mental health, well-being

Objectives

By participating in the "Plogging! Sport & Ecology - Healthy Balance" project, we managed to find a "healthy eco-fit balance" in our lives. We also managed to meet two needs, namely the need to take care of our own health by consciously practicing physical activity and learning how to care for the natural environment in which we live every day and take actions aimed at protecting it. We are fully convinced that participation in the youth exchange allowed us to find a golden mean that allows us to combine presenting pro-ecological attitudes and taking care of physical activity. The implementation of the project allowed us to develop both in being "ECO" and in being "FIT". During the youth exchange, we managed to create a project space in which we confronted issues regarding a) how to use physical activity to strengthen our body and avoid overloading it, b) contraindications to practicing specific forms of physical activity, c) supplementation and diets supporting the process of taking care of your physical fitness, d) creating training plans taking into account parameters such as gender, age, body capabilities, e) the correlation between nutrition and physical activity, f) sports equipment allowing you to take care of your physical fitness in a safe and healthy way physical form. "Working through these issues" allowed us to develop awareness of "being FIT" while maintaining good well-being and not exposing our health to excessive burden. Other issues that we managed to confront during the youth exchange were topics related to a) ways of caring for the natural environment at the local, regional, national and international level, b) recycling, c) sorting waste, d) ecological trends, e) causes of negative effects climate change, f) guidelines and priorities of the European Green Deal. As a result of acquiring knowledge in this area, we are able to look at environmental protection from a much broader perspective than before. What is extremely important, we have gained the belief that we have the power to influence processes aimed at protecting the natural environment. During the youth exchange, we "felt the spirit" behind the idea of plogging, delved into its origins, name, history, learned about the most inspiring plogging actions that have taken place in recent years around the world, as well as examples of plogging actions that took place in the countries from which we come from. We also learned about the scale of plogging popularity in our regions/countries. In this way, we understood the motivations and goals behind the activity of plogging and learned the mechanisms of combining two potentially completely different worlds, i.e. physical activity and environmental protection. During the youth exchange, we managed to go beyond plogging and create original ideas for combining physical activity with environmental protection. During the youth exchange, we went to the public space of Wierzchosławice to experience for ourselves what Plogging is, and we also organized a meeting with representatives of the local community during which we presented the results of our project. Organizing these events allowed us to understand how much work should be put into activities aimed at involving the local community in project activities, how to promote our activities as well as inspire and encourage people around us to replicate good behavioral patterns and then benefit from their fruits.

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