To use Active Living, sign in first.
This page explains how it works. The tool itself is inside your SeniorThrive account.
Active Living is a list of sports and activities you can look through, to find something you might enjoy taking up again or trying for the first time.
Where to find it
Open Activities and choose it from there.
What it is, and what it is not
It is a catalogue. A collection of activities with useful detail attached to each one, there for you to browse.
It is not personalised, and it is not a recommendation. SeniorThrive does not know your health, your history or what your doctor has said, so nothing here has been checked for whether it suits you in particular. The list is the same for everyone.
That is worth knowing before you read the difficulty labels, because they describe the activity rather than you.
Before you take something up
Have a word with your doctor before starting anything new or returning to something after a long gap. That is ordinary sensible advice for anyone, and it matters more if you have a heart condition, joint trouble, balance difficulty, or you are recovering from surgery or an illness.
A doctor can tell you which of these is a good idea for you. This page cannot, and does not try to.
Finding something
Use the filters to narrow it down by type, and by level. Levels run through Moderate and Challenging, and there is an All Types and All Levels view when you would rather just look at everything.
If the filters leave you with No activities found, widen them again. It means the combination is empty, not that there is nothing for you.
What each activity tells you
Open any activity and you get a Description, its Benefits, the Required equipment, some Safety tips, and a Pro tip.
The equipment list is the practical one. It is much better to know before you turn up that something needs proper shoes or a particular bit of kit, and it saves the small disappointment of arriving unprepared.
Read the safety tips even for something you used to do. Bodies change, and the sensible way to do a thing at seventy is not always the way you did it at forty.
Coming back to something you used to love
This is what the page is really good for.
A lot of people stop an activity for a reason that has long since passed: a busy decade, an injury that healed, a club that closed. Seeing it written down is often the nudge, and starting again gently is usually possible even when starting from scratch would not be.
Go slower than you think you need to for the first few weeks. That is not caution for its own sake; it is how you are still doing it in six months.
Doing it with someone
Almost everything here is better with company, and company is what makes it stick.
If something appeals, mentioning it to your Circle is a reasonable next step. Somebody may want to come, and a person expecting you is the most reliable motivation there is.