Outdoor activities promote active living by encouraging area residents to utilize the trail . This includes anything from various team sports leagues to weekly exercise classes, or biking to skateboarding. One of the weekly exercises classes available is yoga classes. Yoga promotes both physical and mental health through the combination of physical stretches and meditation. It helps to reduce both mental and physical stress. The first picture was taken on April 22, 2017 and shows one of the flag football sessions. This helps with improve mental health in many ways with one being by promoting social cohesion and fewer feelings of social isolation by engaging with teammates, but also physical health through physical exertion playing the sport. Recent editions along the Eastside trail include a bike share program which has bee strategically placed along the beltline to encourage biking within the area. This assists in physical health improvements via the increase of active transportation, but it also assists with environmental health promotion by reducing the carbon footprint propagated by emulsions from motor vehicles . The beltline also has a skate park available with various ramps and rails for the skateboarders and more adventurous bikers and roller skaters.
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