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FAT TO FIT

Fitness Challenge -9th to 16th

January 2021
Date

Online session- 24th of January

2021

Joint Project with the Interact
Project Type
Club of Dharmaraja College

Rtr. Sandun Chamara

Chairpersons
Rtr. Nimasha Ranathunga

Fat to fit is an award-winning project of RACUOP that has been carried out in previous years to

enhance the physical fitness of the community. This year it was conducted as a joint project between

the Rotaract Club of University of Peradeniya and the Interact club of Dharmaraja College, Kandy.

This year the project was conducted for the 3rd consecutive time, and due to the country's prevailing

situation, it was conducted on a virtual platform.

Since we focused on improving the physical fitness of

the general public who was stuck at home during the

quarantine period, unlike in the previous years, we

allowed the general public to participate in the

project. A fitness challenge segment was included in

our project to give the participants a more practically

authentic opportunity to showcase their stamina and

physical fitness.

The project was conducted in two phases, and the 1st

phase was the fitness challenge phase, where the

university student community and the general public

crowd were invited to form teams and take a

challenge. Team Hockey of the University of

Peradeniya won the challenge obtaining the highest

number of likes for their fitness video uploaded on

Facebook and a cash prize was awarded to them.

The 2nd phase was an online zoom session. In this

session, a diet planning discussion by Miss Hasara

Kumaragama, a nutritionist and a graduate of the

University of Peradeniya, was followed by an online

Zumba session conducted by a professional Zumba

conductor, Dr. Erunika O. Dayarathna, an alumnus of the

University of Peradeniya. In the previous years, the

Zumba session was held physically in the University of

Peradeniya premises but we had to settle down for a

virtual Zumba experience this year.

It was a new experience for everyone who attended the online Zumba session. The project was also

intended to strengthen the Rotaract - Interact bond.

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