A photo of the Series Activities of 2019 National Fitness Day - the 6th Olympic Sports Center Swimming Festival (Picture provided by Chongqing Olympic Sports Center)

A photo of family game (Picture provided by Chongqing Olympic Sports Center)

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- August 8th, 2019 is the 11th “National Fitness Day”, on which Chongqing people can enjoy fitness benefits for free. Last weekend, the Activities of 2019 National Fitness Day - the 6th Olympic Sports Center Swimming Festival was held at the Swimming and Diving Hall of Chongqing Olympic Sports Center, attracting 500 swimming amateurs. In the following days, you can take part in various activities for free, like going roller skating, bowling and playing billiards.

Swimming and Diving Hall of Chongqing Olympic Sports Center seemed quite busy on that day. In the swimming pool, you can see many swimming props in the shape of swan, yellow duck, goldfish and tortoise, so that children can have a good time in the pool accompanied by their parents. This activity will be held in the form of fun water fitness game and the standards competition. There will be 113 children under 12 years old to participate in the standards competition finally, with a standard rate of above 90%. Those qualified participants can get the “National Swimming Exercise Rank Standard Certificate” awarded by Chinese Swimming Association.

In order to welcome the arrival of National Fitness Day, the Olympic Sports Center will launch a series of public benefit activities for you to participate for free. From August 3rd to 11th, Chongqing Olympic Sports Center will open its own Stadium, Swimming and Diving Hall, Youth Sports Activity Center (Badminton Hall), 12 venue and facilities to hold 15 fitness projects like swimming, badminton, bowling, billiards, roller skating and basketball to provide free service in different periods. The volunteer service team of Chongqing Olympic Sports Center will carry out fitness guidance and service for the public in every hall during the period.

In addition to fitness, Chongqing Olympic Sports Center will also regularly provide free physical fitness monitoring for you from 18:30 to 21:30 every Tuesday and Thursday at the health post (Gate 17 of the stadium of Chongqing Olympic Sports Center, next to the Olympic Sports Center Community of Xietaizi Police Station). About 13 items of physical fitness, bone mineral density, physical quality can be monitored here and then you can get your report on the site. During this period, the health post will be open all day on August 8th besides the period mentioned above. Free fitness and health monitoring shall be provided to help the public clearly understand their physical conditions, so as to formulate correct and scientific exercise methods and carry out specific exercises.

Attached activity schedule:

(Translated by Mao Qiao, Fathom Language Limited)