Get Healthy Harlem

Learn to Swim Program

Knowing how to swim makes you healthy and keeps you safe. To help teach New Yorkers to swim, Parks is offering free swimming lessons for people of all ages.

How to register

In order to guarantee everyone an equal chance of attending our programs, we’ve developed a lottery for program registration.

StreetSquashStreetSquash is an after-school youth enrichment program that combines tutoring with physical activity, squash instruction, community service, and one-on-one mentoring.

There are a couple of interesting stories that appeared today on the Major League Baseball site (mlb.com).

So I came across this link this morning and it contains videos showing you how to get small bursts of physical activity into your day.  I work at an office and sit at a computer for over 8 hours a day, so it appealed to me...

Harlem River Community Rowing is offering four summer sessions of learn-to-row classes. Participants will get approximately 18 hours of hands-on training in rowing fundamentals.

Some eye, wrist, hand/finger, shoulder, upper back, lower back, hamstring and neck exercises that you can do while you're working at a desk! Don't forget to get up and walk around throughout the day to give your eyes a rest and the rest of your body a good stretch!

BeFitNYC is a great resource for fitness facts, exercise facilities in NYC, and ideas for physical activities. Check it out to find something that works for you!!

Ride the City is a map that shows users the safest bike route from Point A to Point B. Like GoogleMaps and MapQuest, you can enter in your starting and ending destinations and the map shows you the shortest distance between the 2 points.

The CDC continues the push for more community-based prevention programs to address the obesity epidemic.  Here, the WSJ highlights a new set of community-oriented recommendations from the CDC aimed at fighting obesity. 

Tired of always having back, knee or hip pain? Been through series of physical therapy for that shoulder pain? Come to Neighborhood Holistic and get rid of pain once and for all! We use a combination of medical massage and yoga to bring you back to health- visit www.neighborhoodholistic.com or e-mail Lyn-Genet at lg@neighborhoodholistic.com.