You're never too old to be young again with Vitality

Many of us planned to start the year off right. Maybe you set personalised health and exercise goals, joined a gym, vowed to do 50 parkruns this year, or joined a local running and cycling club.

But then COVID-19 happened, and many of our best-laid plans came to a screeching halt.

Now that we're halfway through the year, it's a good time to take a step back and look at our goals and achievements. Perhaps you let your fitness slide a little when you couldn't leave your house. Maybe you exercised along with the Vitality at Home team, but dipped into unhealthy eating habits. Maybe you're still a top performer at work and at home, but your mental wellbeing could use a boost.

Whatever you need to achieve your wellness and exercise goals in the second half of the year, Discovery Vitality will be there with you every step of the way. In your living room, your kitchen, your garden, on your TV - motivating you, rewarding you, and bringing you new and creative ways to stay healthy and rewarded.

Staying young and healthy the Vitality way

The benefits of achieving your wellness and exercise goals are legion. By setting and achieving your exercise and nutrition goals, you can reduce your risk of getting chronic lifestyle conditions, improve your memory and your mood, be more productive at work, sleep better, extend your life expectancy and be a healthier, happier person all around. Whatever your age, you turn back time with healthy behaviour.

When Discovery Vitality decided to enhance the existing programme to accommodate for the changing needs of members over 65, our research showed startling links between healthy behaviour and longevity.

Vitality members over 65 who engaged with the Vitality programme saw their mortality risk decrease by up to 60%. Individuals age 65 or older that engage in regular physical activity and healthy eating have the same COVID-19 hospital admission risk as an unengaged 55-year-old. What's more, members who take proactive steps to manage their chronic conditions could gain 13 years of healthy life - showing just how much you can change your health risks when you change your behaviour.

One small step a day to a long, healthy life

We know change isn't simple. It's become way too easy to have chips for breakfast and sit on the couch all day. But the key to a long, full life - a life of purpose and Vitality - is to create small habits of excellence every day.

It's the small steps that make the biggest impact. It's finding out how healthy you are with a Virtual Vitality Health Check-in and taking proactive measures to keep you and your loved ones safe.

It's choosing HealthyFood when the chocolate aisle is calling your name. It's cooking together as a family, and using healthier alternatives to comfort food. It's washing your hands, taking care of your family's health and creating personal hygiene habits together. It's taking a break and focusing on you, your fitness, your personalised health goals and your mental wellbeing. It's exercising at home, a little every day - 30 minutes here, 50 Vitality points there - until you can feel like you again.

Each small step adds up until you realise one day that you stayed steadfast in your values during one of the most tumultuous times in recent history.

And Vitality was always there to support you. Giving you double your HealthyFood, HealthyCare and HealthyGear rewards. Making sure you and your family eat well even when you order in or dine out with up to 35% back on HealthyDining meals and up to 60% back on kids' healthy meals. Giving you discounted weekly Vitality Active Rewards and new entertainment rewards like Netflix, BoxOffice, Steam and Sony PlayStation to help take your mind off current events. And providing custom-made Discovery fabric face masks to keep you safe when you go outside.

So, whatever your age, you're never too old to be young again. Start living the Vitality way today.

Stay home. Stay healthy. Stay rewarded.