Services and guidelines
Here are some online, professional, and health services that could support your physical activity.
Also, the Physical activity guidelines, quizzes and work-specific information can help to guide how to be active.
Healthy Eating Active Living is a NSW Health website offering support to set and monitor healthy activities and goals via a Make Healthy Normal account.
Healthy Eating Active Living provides a quiz 'How healthy are my habits?'. Check-in with your current habits and see where you might be able to improve.
The Get Healthy Service is a free telephone-based coaching service helping people to make lifestyle changes, offering Information and a 6 month coaching program.
Physical activity guidelines:
World Health Organization - WHO Physical activity and sedentary behaviour guidelines for Adults (18-64 years)
World Health Organization - WHO Physical activity recommendations for Older adults (Adults 65+ years)
World Health Organization - Physical activity recommendations for Adults and Older adults with chronic conditions
ESSA - Pre-exercise questionnaire and exercise intensity guidelines
Health professional services:
Australian Physiotherapy Association - Find a physiotherapist
ESSA - Find an accredited Exercise physiologist, Exercise Scientist, Sports Scientist
NSW Health - Get Healthy Free telephone-based health coaching service
General services:
Australian Menopause Society - Perimenopause or Menopausal Transition
Beyond Blue - support for anxiety, depression or suicide prevention
Continence Foundation of Australia - Menopause and Bladder and Bowel
NSW Health - Your Room, a place to get facts about alcohol and other drugs
NSW Health - iCanQuit, a free supportive community to quit smoking
1800RESPECT - National domestic family and sexual violence counselling service, Australia. Confidential information and support