This week is a 10 minute Deep Stretch session.
Low impact Exercises are designed to engage muscle groups without putting strain on your joints with explosive movements. It does this by focusing on balance and controlled movements as opposed to high intensity ones, which makes them suitable for all age groups and fitness levels.
Let us know how you go, and any suggestions for next week…
This week is a 10 minute Low Impact Balance Session.
Low impact Exercises are designed to engage muscle groups without putting strain on your joints with explosive movements. It does this by focusing on balance and controlled movements as opposed to high intensity ones, which makes them suitable for all age groups and fitness levels.
Warm-up beforehand, and then follow along!
Let us know how you go, and any suggestions for next week…
This week is a 10 minute Low Impact Core Session. Low impact Exercises are designed to engage muscle groups without putting strain on your joints with explosive movements. It does this by focusing on balance and controlled movements as opposed to high intensity ones, which makes them suitable for all age groups and fitness levels.
Warm-up beforehand, and then follow along!
Let us know how you go, and any suggestions for next week…
This week is a 10 minute Low Impact Exercise Session you can complete at your desk. Low impact Exercises are designed to engage muscle groups without putting strain on your joints with explosive movements. It does this by focusing on balance and controlled movements as opposed to high intensity ones.
You will need a chair & a drink bottle.
Warm-up beforehand, and then follow along!
Let us know how you go, and any suggestions for next week…
Below you will find 6 desk stretches, with descriptions and pictures to help you with technique. These stretches target those muscles that can be stiff through increased inactivity, and will take you less than 10 minutes! To make the image larger, right click on the image and select ‘Open image in new tab.’
Local Government Area: Bass Coast
Jess, 37 years old who describes herself as a plus-size woman and supporter of the HAES movement and body positivity movement. From a young age, Jess grew up playing netball and hockey. At the young age of 21, she was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia after several years of being unwell during this time Jess found it difficult to maintain a routine at the gym. An appreciation of nature and the outdoor Jess has always enjoyed bushwalking and hiking and found that being in nature always soothing. Jess has a dedicated passion to make the outdoors accessible to everyone to receive the benefits of nature. Jess is a Gippsland Leader for Escaping Your Comfort Zone, a women’s and non-binary folks adventure group. Give Jess a follow on Instagram as she documents her walks @walking_with_jess |
Why would you like to be a GGC ambassador?
I’m passionate about making the outdoors accessible to everyone and the benefits of nature.
Our Gippy Girls Tribe helps us raise awareness of Gippy Girls Can in their community!
The Gippy Girls Tribe is searching for someone special. We’re certain you know her.
Feel part of our awesome Gippy Girls Can team, and know that we are with you, cheering you along!
Escaping Your Comfort Zone is Body Positive Adventures for women and non-binary crew. The outdoors don’t care about your size, your speed or your fitness, and neither do we!
100% body positive, no focus on weightloss. Just having fun in the outdoors, cause we can!
How does it work?
EYCZ use Groups.Place to list all of our upcoming events here. There is a membership fee to join our walks on a monthly basis, or on a per-hike basis ($10-$15). Your first walk as a casual visitor is free, so you can see if its for you. How to become a member.
EYCZ use our private Escaping Your Comfort Zone App to have general chats about all things Body Positive adventure related, from where to buy plus size hiking jackets, to sharing photos of our favourite hikes. EYCZ will also share some of the events posted here in the app.
Upcoming Gippsland Walks:
Children’s Week is a national celebration that recognises children’s talents, skills, achievements, and rights.
GippSport KIDDO Gippsland program received funding from The Victorian Department of Education and Training to run 3 Children’s week events across the Wellington Shire Council. The KIDDO Gippsland Children’s Week event was across 3 locations in Maffra, Sale and Yarram, with 78 children registered to participate in these physical literacy opportunities.
These sessions were aimed at building awareness of physical literacy and its intergenerational importance, through educating parents and running a fun, game-based activity with the children.
For the more isolated towns in Wellington Shire Council, there is not only limited access to facilities, but there is also far less opportunities provided to their community.
KIDDO Gippsland targets isolated towns and communities with increased barriers to provide our physical literacy sessions, showing its direct suitability for the vastness of Wellington Shire Council.
The pure number of registrations for these 3 sessions indicate a huge demand for this type of programming in Wellington and suggest that parents are aware of and interested in developing intergenerational physical literacy.
In towns such as Yarram there is currently no physical activity offering for those aged under 5, let alone a program directly targeting physical literacy and addressing the 4 domains of Social, Psychological, Cognitive and Physical consistently in sessions.
The 2018 AEDC (Australian Early Development Census) depicts Wellington Shire Council as having a higher percentage of developmentally vulnerable children than Victoria and Australian averages in the Physical, Emotional and Social domains, with the more isolated areas of Woodside, Gormandale, and Boisdale having worsened statistics.
KIDDO Gippsland is based on the concept that we will come to you, removing access and cost barriers. The sessions include an introduction into physical literacy for the parents in the form of our take home resource, ensuring caregivers are aware of the concept, the data behind it and the importance it has on lifelong movement patterns and attitudes.
For the children, the sessions are based on fun, game-based play focussing on two focus skills for the physical element, building confidence and engagement for psychological, building relationships in the community for social, and due to its game-based nature the children are exposed to rules and strategy to assist in cognitive development… just to name a few of the elements considered in sessions!
Parent feedback throughout children’s week centred around the fact that nothing like this was provided weekly in any smaller towns, and this style of programming is more important than ever in returning to activity post-COVID.
“This was such a great session, and we had the best fun! Does this run weekly?”
“Where can I find out more about this program? My little man loved today so much.”
“He has never had to follow any kind of instructions from a stranger before, and he was laughing and loving it most of the time! We really need a program like this.”
This Children’s week grant allowed us the opportunity to deliver our program free of cost to a shire that could really benefit, and at each session the caregivers raised their awareness of Physical Literacy, while their children enjoyed game-based play activities.
We had approximately 100 participants including children and their families, with parents quick to comment how much their child enjoyed it and where they could find our sessions regularly. The appetite for this programming was evident, with the rainy Gippsland weather proving not to be an obstacle for a lot of families. Caregivers communicated that they are hyper aware of the changes the past few years have had on their children’s development and the opportunities they have missed in comparison to their siblings or cousins, and welcomed this type of regular programming in their community where possible.
With the clear demand and enjoyment from our sessions, we are currently working with local partners to explore funding opportunities to be able to bring this program to Wellington Shire council consistently. This would mean physical literacy opportunities for children and their families, employment opportunities for coaches, and professional development available for early learning educators…as well as a whole lot of fun!
Contact us with any questions about KIDDO in the community or partnering with your local early learning centre/daycare/kindergarten/playgroup.
Phone – 0477 238 777
Email – renee@gippsport.com.au
Website – www.kiddogippsland.com.au
Social media – https://www.facebook.com/kiddogippsland
Local Government Area: Bass Coast
Jess, 37 years old who describes herself as a plus-size woman and supporter of the HAES movement and body positivity movement. From a young age, Jess grew up playing netball and hockey. At the young age of 21, she was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia after several years of being unwell during this time Jess found it difficult to maintain a routine at the gym. An appreciation of nature and the outdoor Jess has always enjoyed bushwalking and hiking and found that being in nature always soothing. Jess has a dedicated passion to make the outdoors accessible to everyone to receive the benefits of nature. Jess is a Gippsland Leader for Escaping Your Comfort Zone, a women’s and non-binary folks adventure group. Give Jess a follow on Instagram as she documents her walks @walking_with_jess |
Why would you like to be a GGC ambassador?
I’m passionate about making the outdoors accessible to everyone and the benefits of nature.
Our Gippy Girls Tribe helps us raise awareness of Gippy Girls Can in their community!
The Gippy Girls Tribe is searching for someone special. We’re certain you know her.
Feel part of our awesome Gippy Girls Can team, and know that we are with you, cheering you along!
Local Government Area: Bass Coast
Clare is an active mum of two sons, who is an engineer leading the way in the operations division. Clare takes pride in coaching and mentoring people of all ages to help them become the best version of themselves. In her spare time, Clare volunteers as a Cub Scout Leader, Auskick coach and occasionally at her local parkrun. |
Why would you like to be a GGC ambassador?
I’d love to encourage, support, and empower women to be active. Sport has always been a part of my life and it gives me so much joy. I’d love to help bring that feeling to girls and women of all ages. |
Our Gippy Girls Tribe helps us raise awareness of Gippy Girls Can in their community!
The Gippy Girls Tribe is searching for someone special. We’re certain you know her.
Feel part of our awesome Gippy Girls Can team, and know that we are with you, cheering you along!
Local Government Area: Latrobe
Claudia, a tattooed 23-year-old registered mental health nurse who lives with her dog. After a lifestyle change Claudia recently lost 50 kg, she regularly takes her dog out hiking and camping. With a passion for supporting women and Gippsland, she hopes more women feel confident in their mind, body and soul. |
Why would you like to be a GGC ambassador?
I love sharing a message of women being confident in their skin no matter their size and moving their bodies. I would love more women to be active on their own, exploring what Gippsland has to offer! |
Our Gippy Girls Tribe helps us raise awareness of Gippy Girls Can in their community!
The Gippy Girls Tribe is searching for someone special. We’re certain you know her.
Feel part of our awesome Gippy Girls Can team, and know that we are with you, cheering you along!
Local Government Area: South Gippsland
A mum of 3 beautiful girls, Rebecca lives and works with her husband on their family dairy farm in South Gippsland and if life weren’t busy enough is a part-time primary school teacher teaching Physical Education. Rebecca describes herself as a hardworking and kind-hearted person, striving to live her best life, bringing up 3 strong girls, who know they can do and be anything and has a passion to make a difference through the love of movement. |
Rebecca understands the high and lows life can throw at us. Through all her life challenges and triumphs, she remains positive and humble. Pushing the boundaries but remaining an open book to help others know they are not alone in their struggles. Rebecca has faith in the universe and mother nature that everything in our lives happen for a reason.
Why would you like to be a GGC ambassador?
I feel like I have something positive to offer the Gippsland Community. I am passionate about movement and the difference it can make for people’s physical and mental health. I know there is a pleasurable way that everyone can confidently move, and I love nothing more than helping people find their movement fit. I am by no means your typical looking trainer I have a strong mum body that I am proud of and move in a way that makes it feel good, not to punish myself. |
Our Gippy Girls Tribe helps us raise awareness of Gippy Girls Can in their community!
The Gippy Girls Tribe is searching for someone special. We’re certain you know her.
Feel part of our awesome Gippy Girls Can team, and know that we are with you, cheering you along!
Local Government Area: Latrobe
Allison is a passionate runner who loves writing and podcasting about running. You can find her out on the Grand Ridge Rail Trail with her husband and two kids (on bikes) or her beautiful boxers. Despite have a senior management role, Allison still finds time to be active and is proud member of the local Latrobe Walk Jog Run group.
Why would you like to be a GGC ambassador?
To encourage more Gippy Girls to get active.
Our Gippy Girls Tribe helps us raise awareness of Gippy Girls Can in their community!
The Gippy Girls Tribe is searching for someone special. We’re certain you know her.
Feel part of our awesome Gippy Girls Can team, and know that we are with you, cheering you along!
Unfortunately due to the current COVID-19 restrictions, the Kiddo High Country Program scheduled to commence on Thursday 14th October has been postponed until Thursday October 28th. If you have any questions feel free to contact zara@gippsport.com.au or 0476 002 441.
KIDDO is a FUN physical activity program for kids aged 2-8yrs that aims to improve children’s movement skills & confidence to be active. Parent’s participation is key, so we encourage parents to get involved and enjoy the fun with their kids!
Every Thursday Starting October 28th
4pm-5pm
Amphitheatre @ Swifts Creek P-12
Tambo Campus
6840 Great Alpine Road, Swifts Creek
All sessions are free of charge.
Registration is required due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Click Here to Register
For more information contact Zara:
e| zara@gippsport.com.au
m| 0476 002 441
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