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10,000 ways to support the Forum

26/09/19 . Blog

Retired French professor Tim Unwin has come up with an ingenious new way to support the Forum.

Rather than a one-off run or swim or other sponsored event, he's asking you to support him walking an average of 10,000 steps a day of 2019.

At the Forum, we always say that building activity into your daily life is generally going to be easier to maintain and healthier in the long-term than seeing exercise as a 'bolt on'. (We all know what happens to that new year gym subscription.)

Tim has chosen the 10,000 steps challenge because it fits in with his lifestyle and, as he says in our interview, it's something which he can continue as he gets older. What about you? Could you average 10,000 steps over a period? Perhaps start with a week?

When we read of fundraisers doing Iron Person challenges, cycling across vast continents or running marathons, we're delighted to see so much being raised for good causes but at the same time, it can be pretty daunting. It's tiring just to read about it! But walking everyday. That sounds possible. Great work, Tim. Très bien, avec mention. 

Tim's interview

Jim Pollard, site editor
[Jim also blogs at jimpollard.co.uk]

The Men’s Health Forum need your support

It’s tough for men to ask for help but if you don’t ask when you need it, things generally only get worse. So we’re asking.

In the UK, one man in five dies before the age of 65. If we had health policies and services that better reflected the needs of the whole population, it might not be like that. But it is. Policies and services and indeed men have been like this for a long time and they don’t change overnight just because we want them to.

It’s true that the UK’s men don’t have it bad compared to some other groups. We’re not asking you to ‘feel sorry’ for men or put them first. We’re talking here about something more complicated, something that falls outside the traditional charity fund-raising model of ‘doing something for those less fortunate than ourselves’. That model raises money but it seldom changes much. We’re talking about changing the way we look at the world. There is nothing inevitable about premature male death. Services accessible to all, a population better informed. These would benefit everyone - rich and poor, young and old, male and female - and that’s what we’re campaigning for.

We’re not asking you to look at images of pity, we’re just asking you to look around at the society you live in, at the men you know and at the families with sons, fathers and grandads missing.

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