Physical Activity and Nutrition

Programs and Services

Community Settings

• • Shape Up New York
• • Step Out New York City
• • Healthy Bodegas Initiative
  • Moooove to 1% Milk
  • Move to Fruits and Vegetables
• • Health Bucks Program

Shape Up New York

"Shape Up New York"™ is a FREE family fitness program offered at parks sites, community centers and housing sites around New York City. Fitness classes are open to adults and children. Classes include step aerobics, fitness walking, light weights, stretching and toning exercises.

Shape Up New York is designed to encourage the development of healthy lifestyles and help improve participant self-esteem through energizing physical activity in a non-competitive environment. The program is sponsored jointly by the City's Health and Parks Departments.

Click here to find the class schedule at a Shape Up New York Sites near you. You may also call 311 for more information.

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Step Out New York City

• A collaboration with the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, the NYC Commission on Women's Issues, the YMCA, and the Police Athletic League, Step Out encourages residents to get up and get out for family and community-oriented walks at over 80 locations throughout the City.
  
• Walks range in length from one to two miles and are held three times a week (two evenings and Saturday morning). Pedometers are distributed so that participants can keep track of their steps and track their progression throughout the summer.

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