On your marks, get set, go!

Studying digitally and working from home has an impact on our behavior - and not always the best. The lack of commuting to study and work leads to a lack of exercise. The lack of student communities, closed canteens and pubs are also changing our everyday eating habits. These changes can have an impact on our health. Good is that these can be compensated for.

This year, the Health and Environment Days (GUt) 2021 are focusing on offers related to this compensation. Activities such as the tried-and-tested pedometer challenge and the newly developed fitness trail in Zittau's Weinau district will promote active exercise in everyday life and in the fresh air. The lecture "Conscious eating in the home office", the seminar "Fit@HomeOffice" and the video "Healthy eyes at the computer workstation" also focus on aspects relating to working within your own four walls.

Pedometer Challenge 2021: Who will take the most steps?

Our pedometer challenge, which has been running since 2016, is a friendly competition between university staff, the Zittau city administration and students. We want to motivate people to walk between home, nursery, school and the university, to do their shopping  without a car and to be more conscious - in the truest sense of the word - about their everyday lives. Taking short walking breaks, climbing stairs and going for walks can help. Walking can replace the car in many places, which in turn minimizes exhaust and greenhouse gas emissions, protects our environment and promotes our health.

From Friday, June 4, 1 p.m., it's time to count your steps for a week. They are competing: Staff teams from Zittau City Council and Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences and our students for their faculties. As last year, the Rectorate of the HSZG and the Lord Mayors of the Zittau and Görlitz campuses and their teams will face each other in the special competition.

Last year, , the city of Zittau came out on top. So now to all HSZG participants: Get out your running shoes! It smells like revenge!

Weinaupark Challenge

In cooperation with HSG Turbine (university sports club), one of Zittau's most renowned sports clubs, a fitness course was created for the first time in Zittau's Weinau. All that is needed to complete the course is a smartphone (for photos and a stopwatch), a small object as a baton and a team partner. The individual stations on the course are marked by five red stones.

LECTURE: Conscious eating in the home office

The lecture "Conscious eating in the home office" by SCHKOLA Ernährungspraxis

• gives recommendations for a healthy, balanced diet,
• helps with tips against nutritional traps in the home office,
• provides ideas for quick and healthy cooking at home.

SEMINAR: Fit@HomeOffice

Fit@Home Office addresses the organization of work in the home office, the structuring of everyday life and ways of maintaining your health so that you can establish your own rhythm. The focus is on the influences of movement and ergonomics, which use practical tips to increase productivity in the home office, minimize distractions and keep the body fit. In addition, the lecturer will explain which health-promoting measures can be used independently in the home office.

VIDEO: Healthy eyes at a VDU workstation

A VDU workstation demands a lot from the eyes. If you know the right methods of eye relaxation and eye training, you can keep one of the most important sensory organs vital and efficient. In our course, you will learn how to set up your workplace ergonomically, avoid one-sided strain on the sense of sight and design relaxing mini-breaks that are effective and easy to integrate into everyday (working) life.