Read our guest blog from China Fleet all about the importance of exercising.

Hello! Welcome to Spring and welcome to our Live Better blog. This month we’re celebrating families and the importance of exercising and playing together. With the holidays and (hopefully) warmer, sunnier days coming soon, it’s the perfect time to get together, get outdoors and get moving.

It’s fun to exercise together and it doesn’t have to be boring, I love playing Woodland Adventure Golf with the family, fun outdoor exercise! Just don’t get too competitive…like me! I also love walking on the Woodland Fairy Trail, looking for all the clues in the booklet you can purchase and exercising my dogs at the same time. The Cabin – cafe & bar is now open and welcomes dogs, one of my favourite things to do is to follow a walk with a delicious cup of coffee, so the holidays look likely to be filled with lots of fun for all of us!

Move

The benefits of Woodland Adventure Golf are Cardio and Exercise. I love the Woodland Adventure Golf course because it is a great way to get all of us together, exercising and having fun outdoors. There are lots of obstacles and fun challenges throughout the game and because I am a competitive person, I get the family to play quite regularly. So much so that my next visit is FREE! Apparently, you can burn up to 300 calories playing this game, I am sure I burn more with all the jumping up and down when I manage to get a hole in one! 

Educational benefits

Hand-eye coordination is needed for mini-golf and you can help develop it while having fun at the same time. The main reason I love this game is the adding up element to it, to work out who the winner is at the end of play. I don’t know about you but this is really where my family like to cheat and blame it on their mathematical skills, well as I tell them, play more and you will be an expert at adding up!

Mental Health

As a family we have so much fun spending time together outdoors, whatever the weather, this is what makes us happy as a family, so just image what laughing can do for you when smiling offers a mood boost and reports prove it helps our bodies release cortisol and endorphins that provide numerous health benefits, including:
Reduced blood pressure, Increased endurance, Reduced pain, Reduced stress, and Strengthened immune system.

Eat

With The Cabin cafe & bar now open and welcoming our four legged friends, there is the chance to grab a snack and cup of coffee, while we are out and about, where the kids can enjoy the woodland play park and I can sit in peace with the dogs. When we are at home, I like to try different fun food ideas, which need to be easy, because I am not the best cook! I also like to get the family involved so we had great fun making these, I hope you do too!

We hope to see you soon for some familly fun! From Debbie in the China Fleet Team