Oxygen Park to promote healthy lifestyle – Peninsula On-line

By Fazeena Saleem 

DOHA: Oxygen Park at Education City will certainly host tasks by Qatar Foundation (QF) after a soft opening on Tuesday — the National Sport Day.

The unique park features 117 types of plants sprawled over a lot more compared to 130,000 square metres. It has actually a covered walkway, operating track, gardens, equestrian monitor and a sports pitch.

The Oxygen Park is expected to open officially in March and will certainly initially be accessible just to students of Education City prior to being thrown open to the public, said QF officials throughout a media briefing on Thursday.

On National Sport Day, the park will certainly provide pony rides organised by Al Shaqab, besides Crossfit, zumba, and boxercise classes, also as a beach volleyball tournament.

These tasks will certainly be portion of a lot more compared to 60 events organised by Qatar Foundation on Tuesday to promote a healthy and balanced way of living and well being.

Under the theme of ‘Unlock Your Inner Athlete’, the tasks demonstrate QF’s commitment to shaping a healthy, sports-loving society, while inspiring people to make positive, long-enduring changes.

The annual 3km walkathon hosted by Sidra Medical and Research Focus will certainly be among the highlights of QF’s tasks on the day. 

Hamad bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) Student Focus will certainly likewise provide a slew of tasks including bowling, table tennis, volleyball, basketball, football, traditional games, and group physical fitness classes. In addition, events for QF staff, those along with special needs, and ladies will certainly likewise be hosted at the two venues.

Engineer Saad Al Muhannadi, President of Qatar Foundation, said, “This year’s National Sport Day will certainly be fairly exciting as we have actually a lot of tasks that strive to engage the entire community. Qatar Foundation  gives priority to sports and well being, and National Sport Day is at the centre of our multifaceted, year-long strategy which has actually been specially made to foster an energetic and healthy 

society.”

“We are committed to providing tasks that cater to everyone, young and old, in order to spread awareness on the importance of well being, also as stay away from diseases through productive change. This is likewise an opportunity for us to prove to the tough job of our centres for the progress of good health care in Qatar,” Al Muhannadi added.

Activities of QF on National Sport Day likewise concentrate on nourishment and healthy and balanced eating. Through the day, good health education tasks such as the Sahtak Awalan – Your good health First, will certainly be organised, which is aimed at inspiring young people to make healthy and balanced way of living choices. 

As portion of the activity, young people will certainly get hold of the opportunity to blend their own smoothies making use of specially adapted bicycles. 

The Peninsula