Athlete Health Resources
Check out health and wellness resources that will help athletes thrive on and off the field!
Fit 5
Athletes want to perform their best at every competition. You can do this by being fit. The Special Olympics Fit 5 program is a plan for physical activity, nutrition, and hydration. It can improve your health and fitness to make you the best athlete you can be. The fitness cards and videos offer exercises to challenge all abilities. These exercises can be done at practice, at the gym, or even at home!
Nutrition Resources
Find nutrition and wellness resources as well as some quick and healthy recipes you can start creating today!
Movement Resources
Check out at-home workout ideas (YouTube videos, SOI workouts, and so much more) for all sorts of different ways you can move your body!
Mental Wellness Resources
Check out ideas for mindfulness, yoga, and mental wellness activities!
Create Your Own Wellness Challenge Program
If you want to create your own challenge program, you can use Special Olympics BC's monthly challenge calendar template to plan your daily workouts and wellness activities!
Featured Special Olympics At-Home Workouts
- Special Olympics School of Strength Special Olympics athletes and WWE Superstar Becky Lynch teamed up to launch an awesome series of at-home training videos! Work out with these videos five times a week to help you stay fit and reach your athletic goals.
- Work out with Matthew's circuit Special Olympics BC – Quesnel athlete and Health Messenger Matthew Hender has you covered with his “No Pain, No Gain” circuit!
- Active Athlete Alphabet Check out this resource created by Emma Lainchbury, Special Olympics BC – Kelowna Club Fit coach!
Healthy Athletes Screenings
Through Healthy Athletes, health care professionals receive training about the specific health care concerns of people with intellectual disabilities and how to ask the right questions, helping them draw out issues. Their interactions with Special Olympics athletes lead to referrals back into the health care system that ensure the individuals will get the treatment they need.
More Physical Training Tools
- Athlete Training Diary
- Training Diary: Extra Sheets
- At-Home Fitness Guide
- Stretching Guide
- Dryland Training Tools
More Mental Training Tools
- Family Health Forum - Mental Wellness (December 2022)
- My Mental Health Workbook (April 2021)
- SOI Take 5 for Strong Minds Challenge - practicing Strong Minds stress-reducing techniques (using a stress ball, thinking positive thoughts, deep breathing, stretching)
- SOBC daily at-home routine template (April 2020)
- Special Olympics International Strong Minds Activity Guide (June 2020)
- SOBC Strong Minds tips by B.C. Clinical Director Sarah Kiengersky (April 2020)
- SOBC Mental Training Guide
- SOI Strong Minds tips for stress