Sports
Online training programme to boost stamina
Compete against yourself and develop a wellbeing routine that includes completing an at-home workout moves routine. The programme #Treinaemcasa delivers a 20-minute class that will help boost your stamina while it delivers guidelines to avoid personal injuries. Start getting fit now.
This online training programme helps you get in shape during lockdown
Confinement is no excuse to stop leading an active lifestyle. You can still continue your sports routines, by adjusting and adapting your lockdown schedules with the help of the challenge by the programme #Treinaemcasa. This 20-minute class will help boost your stamina while it delivers guidelines to avoid personal injuries.
“Desporto para Todos” grants 1 million euros to support clubs and associations
The first phase of the programme “Desporto para Todos” (“Sports for All”, free translation) opens on 5th February. Thus far, the National Sports Programme has supported 1.341 projects.
Fitness first: online training programme to get you back in shape during lockdown
Don’t thrown in the towel, confinement is no excuse to becoming a couch potato, as the online programme “Domingo Saudável” [“Healthy Sunday”, free translation], on 24th January, at 10 am, will help you boost your stamina. The sessions, organised by Runporto, take to the online platform and are free of charge.
The Dragão Stadium in Porto is the first in the world to be colour-blind inclusive
The Futebol Clube do Porto is implementing the ColorADD code system to enable those whose ability to see colour or differences in colour is decreased to have a better experience when in the stadium, visiting or watching a football game. This is the first stadium in the world to implement this code system. It is estimated that 350 million people around the world are Colorblind.
“Desporto no Bairro”: a dream come true
The closing performance of the municipal project “Desporto no Bairro” first edition filled the Super Bock Arena- Pavilhão Rosa Mota with light and movement. The 35 finalists, aged between 5 and 19 years, from the eight neighbourhoods included in the project, shared the stage with some of the best b-boys of the world and got the opportunity to show what they have learned these past three months.
Happy hour at the municipal pools in Porto
The REMUPI, the Municipal Network of pools managed by Ágora, maintains its happy hour during the afternoon, for the 2020/2021 season, this time with discounts of circa 50%.
This year, São Silvestre do Porto was raced online
This year, the São Silvestre race of Porto, scheduled for 26 and 27 December, was raced online, on a virtual environment, for the first time ever. Participants could choose between the 10km race or the 5km walk, always in compliance with the safety measures issued by the health authorities, in each part of the Globe, namely physical distancing.
Brace yourselves! It’s time for UP Running!
2021 is just around the corner and the U.Porto race group, the UP Running is back on the road on 4th January. Participation is free to all UP members. If you think you cannot accept this challenge, if you think you cannot run half a kilometres and feel exhausted, think again, because UPRunning will prove that all obstacles can be surpassed.
Xmas Holiday Camp at the University of Porto
The Christmas Holiday Camp is back between 21 and 23 December with lots of physical activity for the younger ones. The Sports Centre of the University of Porto (CDUP-UP) will organize another edition of the Christmas Holiday Camps, targeted at children aged between 6 and 14 years.