Healthy Lifestyle Adventures await you with the Norflex Adventure Guide website

The new Norflex Adventure Guide is the perfect resource to help you kickstart a healthier and more active lifestyle in 2024.

According to a recent World Health Organisation study, almost 40% of South Africans are physically inactive³. Regular physical exercise can contribute to the prevention and management of noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer and diabetes¹. In fact, the health benefits of regular physical activity include a 30% lower risk of early death, up to a 50% lower risk of type 2 diabetes and colon cancer, 20% lower risk of breast cancer and a 35% lower risk of coronary heart disease and stroke².

While the importance of physical activity is widely recognised for physical and mental health and wellbeing, research shows that exercising outdoors comes with its own additional benefits. Exercising outdoors helps people find and maintain regular physical activity. Additionally, these types of activities appeal to people with different fitness levels and are often very cost-effective⁴

The Norflex Adventure Guide is a great tool to assist South Africans find their next outdoor adventure. It is an easy, user friendly website and App which features a comprehensive range of outdoor activities whether that’s a hike, run, open water swim, or even a day out with the family, with users able to find activities anywhere in our beautiful country, South Africa.

The Norflex Adventure Guide features healthy outdoor adventure activities, and allows users to search according to easy, moderate or hard difficulty levels, with ‘fun’ being an option too. The Guide also enables users to review their adventure at each location, helping others to pick the right activity for them.

Whether you want to hike a breathtaking new route, experience the thrill of running a new scenic trail, push yourself to pedal a terrain perfect for mountain biking or find a spot for a swim or a walk, the Norflex Adventure Guide is your new go-to for all things excitement and an invitation to discover where to unlock more outdoor fitness and adventure opportunities.

The Norflex Adventure Guide is also a useful resource to find a local Park Run, whether you are looking at a location close to where you live or want to join others when you are travelling. The Park Run is a weekly event usually held on a Saturday that invites people of any fitness level to walk, jog or run 5 km, with runs taking place in over 210 venues around the country⁵.

Go to https://thenorflexguide.co.za/ to find your next adventure.

References:

1. World Health Organization – Physical Activity (2022) at https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/physical-activity (Website accessed on 22 January 2023)
2. NHS Inform. Benefits of Exercise (2022) at https://www.nhsinform.scot/healthy-living/keeping-active/benefits-of-exercise/ (Website accessed on 22 January 2023)
3. The Heart and Stroke Foundation South Africa. Get Active (2023) at https://heartfoundation.co.za/get-active/# (Website accessed on 22 January 2023)
4. Eigenschenk, B et al. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health Benefits of Outdoor Sports for Society. A Systematic at Literature Review and Reflections on Evidence (2019) at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6466442/pdf/ijerph-16-00937.pdfhttps://www.parkrun.co.za/# (website accessed on 18 January 2024)
5. Park Run South Africa at https://www.parkrun.co.za/ (website accessed on 18 January 2024)