STRENGTHEN - Stronger Women By Yoga And Pilates As A Health Recovery Tool Against Covid-19 Pandemic

Main challenges to be addressed by this action are: 1-Gender inequality in sport By promoting sports among female role-models we also aim to inspire younger generations on the benefits of active lifestyle. 2- Physical and psychological distress suffered by women due to pandemic Another priority of EU’s Sport and Society Policy is to encourage physical and mental fitness and to fight obesity through participation in regular physical activity. The reasons for women's participation in physical activity are listed as follows: -To create a self space and time -To maintain psychological health -To gain a social environment -To value free time -To live a more planned, more programmed life -To stay in shape -To lose weight -To maintain physical health So in order to facilitate inclusion of women, it is necessary to raise awareness against positive effect of sport and physical activity on health, well-being and psychology of the aforementioned target group and encourage them. In this way, we intend to tackle obesity, internal lipoidosis, cardiovascular diseases, stress-related diseases and immune system weakness through participation in regular physical activity as well as facilitating social inclusion and integration through sport. Thus the action targets to bring the European active lifestyle to the local level. For the latter, we will be training the target group of 40 women in 2 parts with consecutive 3-month-long programmes in two countries each, preparing a series of take-home exercise videos and providing them with basic yet effective, low-cost fitness equipment.