Quit Making Excuses

Regular exercise (150 minutes per week) can improve your health by treating and preventing chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes and cancer.
Make Your Move

85% of Canadian adults do not meet the recommended guideline of 150 minutes of activity a week.
Exercise...it's good medicine

One third of the world's adults are physically inactive and five million die each year as a result. More people die each year from physical inactivity than from smoking.
Your remedy for health

Regular exercise (150 minutes per week) lowers your risk of developing heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke and Alzheimer's disease.

Welcome to Prescription To Get Active

Most Canadians are not active enough in their day. Are you one of them?

Are you:

Struggling to reach 30 minutes of activity on most days of the week?

Looking for a free "how to get active" guide?

Looking for no cost or low cost access to recreation programs and resources in your community?

Then the Prescription To Get Active program is perfect for you.

Our Vision:

An integrated partnership between primary care and recreation to promote the importance of regular physical activity.

Our Mission:

To utilize physical activity prescriptions to promote participation in physical activity in the community and within recreation facilities.

In Alberta, several Primary Care Networks (PCNs) have partnered with local municipal recreation facilities in a unique venture where local family physicians and their health care teams prescribe physical activity to patients who would benefit from increased activity.

After you have received your Prescription To Get Active, please register to get started!