Fitness Centre Project
Michikan Lake First Nation
Michikan Lake recently identified priorities focused on creating opportunities to enhance physical health and wellness, including healthy eating and food security within the community, as well as working with youth to enhance self-esteem and well-being through sports and physical activities. Since the pandemic began, IYFP team has continued to help to enhance the programming available at the newly established community fitness centre. This includes a schoolbased weightlifting program that is being implemented in partnership with community-based Choose Life staff.
The program is multi-phased in order to serve the diverse fitness goals of youth, and will include: (1) General exercise and safe use; (2) Powerlifting; and (3) Olympic Weightlifting for those who want to take their passion to the next level. In order to facilitate the instruction of these more complicated weightlifting techniques, IYFP team members Kieran Peltier and Mark Bruner are planning to record virtual sessions at the Nipissing University Group for Youth Development (G4YD) lab, and sharing these instructional tutorial videos with community-based Choose Life staff and youth so they can be used as teaching references.
The program is multi-phased in order to serve the diverse fitness goals of youth, and will include: (1) General exercise and safe use; (2) Powerlifting; and (3) Olympic Weightlifting for those who want to take their passion to the next level. In order to facilitate the instruction of these more complicated weightlifting techniques, IYFP team members Kieran Peltier and Mark Bruner are planning to record virtual sessions at the Nipissing University Group for Youth Development (G4YD) lab, and sharing these instructional tutorial videos with community-based Choose Life staff and youth so they can be used as teaching references.