We are offering free access to pools and recreation facilities during regular operating hours on June 1, 2024 to celebrate National Health & Fitness Day!
Visit the front desk of any pool or recreation facility on National Health & Fitness Day to pick up an activity tracker and join our Winnipeg 150 Fitness Challenge. Engage in 150 minutes per week of physical activity in June to celebrate Winnipeg 150 and enter to win a prize!
Download the Winnipeg 150 Fitness Challenge tracker (PDF, 297KB).
Check out our list of 150 activity ideas to get you started:
- Try an Active Living drop-in program
- Walk through Kildonan Park
- Check out the monkey trails at Assiniboine Park on your bike
- Go for a run at St. Vital Park
- Check out the Bois-des-Esprits trail and look for carvings in the trees
- Plan a day at Assiniboine Park Zoo with your friends/family
- Check out one of our free disc golf courses
- Explore the Forks loop and take in views of the Niimaamaa sculpture and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
- Attend one of our indoor pool public swim times
- Make a splash at your local spray pad
- Enjoy the tropical horticulture offered at The Leaf
- Meet up with a friend for a round at a City of Winnipeg golf course
- Try Pilates
- Bike or walk to your next visit to one of our recreation and leisure centres
- Indoor cycling or spin classes
- Jump rope
- Go wall climbing
- Do a fitness boot camp
- Play a pick-up game of basketball
- Go rollerblading
- Try out kayaking or canoeing
- Try a Tai Chi class
- Take a walk through the aisles of your local library branch
- Head to one of our pools and enjoy Free Swim!
- Walk around a new neighbourhood
- Play soccer
- Organize a game of flag football
- Play ultimate frisbee
- Have a water fight and cool off
- Plan a scavenger hunt in your neighbourhood
- Participate in community clean-up efforts
- Make a hopscotch grid on the sidewalk and invite friends and neighbours to play
- Learn a new dance move
- Try stand up paddle boarding
- Commute on wheels (skateboard, roller blade, scooter, bike, etc.)
- Take your dog to a City of Winnipeg off-leash park
- Start your day by stretching
- Learn how to round dance
- Get a group together for a game of tug-of-war
- Visit a Manitoba provincial park and explore nature
- Find a new hiking trail to explore
- Leave your desk and go for a walk
- Try CrossFit
- Go to a Zumba class
- Take part in the Historic Walking Tour downtown and learn about Winnipeg
- Check out a local tennis court and play with friends
- Visit Animal Services and take one of the dogs on a doggy date
- Try the rowing machine during your next workout
- Play badminton
- Play softball
- Organize a table tennis tournament
- Try martial arts
- Jump on a trampoline
- Take the stairs instead of the elevator
- Try Pickleball
- Drop in to an aquasize class
- Set up an obstacle course for your family
- Try planking
- Try to master the hula hoop
- Try juggling
- Do an aerobic workout
- Go geocaching with a friend
- Take your meeting offline, and make it active!
- Try parkour
- Practice your handstand/cartwheel
- Park at the far end of the parking lot
- Go to a playground with your family
- Play a game of bocce ball
- Play a round of soccer baseball
- Go LARPing (Live Action Role-Playing) with friends to act out your favourite books, movies, or games
- Go bowling with your co-workers
- Take your High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) outdoors in nature
- Plan a cycling tour
- Mow your lawn and your neighbours too!
- Try out a unicycle
- Try out some bodyweight exercises
- Play Spikeball with your neighbours
- Join a walking group
- Do some jumping jacks at your desk
- Hit the trails and try "trail running"
- Set up an agility ladder and perform ladder drills
- Go mall walking
- Try boxing
- Play an interactive video game that requires physical movement
- Engage in a home improvement task like painting
- Swim laps
- Try chair yoga and perform yoga poses while seated in a chair for gentle stretching
- Play a game of volleyball
- Try four square at the playground
- Play dodgeball
- Wash your car yourself
- Walk to your co-workers office instead of sending an email
- Try synchronized swimming
- Plan a ladder ball tournament with friends
- Try "goalball", a sport designed for athletes with visual impairments
- Play horseshoes
- Take a mindful walk and pay attention to your surroundings
- Try balloon volleyball, a fun game that can be played sitting
- Visit a trampoline park with family and friends
- Try line dancing
- Go to Pan Am Pool and use the diving boards
- Try kickboxing
- Rent a sports kit from our Equipment Rentals Program
- Play grounders at the play structure
- Try hydrotherapy where you use water exercises to rehabilitate injuries and improve mobility
- Clean your house - vacuum, dust, and scrub your floors
- Go urban poling
- Work on your swing at a driving range
- Try water polo
- Try in-line skating
- Try rugby
- Lift weights
- Play lacrosse
- Play cricket at Assiniboine Park
- Try long jumping
- Start a step challenge on your smart watch
- Try archery
- Try shotput and see how far you can throw a ball
- Visit the Living Prairie Museum and learn more about native grasses and wildflowers while walking the trails
- Walk to the grocery store
- Walk to your mailbox
- Try the elliptical next time you are at the gym
- Fly a kite
- Visit a skate park
- Bike to work during Bike Week (June 9-15)
- Take your dog for a walk
- Try hot yoga
- Play catch
- Go for a family bike ride
- Try a kettlebell workout
- Go rucking
- Try a barre class
- Take a self-defense class
- Have a dance party in your kitchen
- Do an ab workout
- Do some gardening or landscaping
- Train for a fun run or marathon
- Play street hockey
- Throw a frisbee
- Practice kicking a soccer ball
- Use a Skip-It
- Go mini golfing
- Go power walking
- Do some push-ups
- Try the stair climber machine
- Join us for a free Senior Walk, Run, Chat at Peguis Trail Health & Fitness Centre
- Try Reformer Pilates
- Try a Bosu Ball workout
- Walk to your local coffee shop
- Walk to drop off/pick up the kids instead of driving