Health Junkie : Sports, Fitness & Health 

Health Junkie is a Web site dedicated to providing New Zealanders with online information and inspiration for sports, health and fitness. It’s all about encouraging you to have a long, happy and healthy lifestyle, to look after your body and to enjoy sports and fitness, whether it’s indoors and out, as a family, a team or individually.

 

Welcome to Health Junkie

On Health Junkie, you’ll find some great information and listings for sports and fitness clubs and services throughout New Zealand, plus easy-to-use practical tools such as a meal planner, online shopping lists, calorie counter and BMI (body mass index) checker. All of these tools can help you take charge of you. So whether you’re a serious athlete training for your next big sports event or a family wanting to get fitter and enjoy more sports together or individually, Health Junkie is for you.

Contribute to Health Junkie

Suggest your favourite sports and health Web site, notify us of any upcoming sports event or write about your sport, your sports club and your sports news and we’ll publish your article on the Web site.

Upcoming Sports Events

Why not get out there and enjoy participating or watching some of the great sports and fitness events in your local area. Whether it's little league or rugby league, a marathon or a school sports day, an Iron Man competition or charity egg and spoon race, you can find out 'where, when and why' by viewing our calendar of upcoming sports and fitness events.

Tell Us About Your Event 

If you are organising an event and want to promote it on Health Junkie, please contact the editor. Listings for upcoming events are free and we welcome news of what's going on. 

Sports News

Read the latest international and New Zealand sports news with Health Junkie’s sports feeds from Rugby News and TVNZ.

The sports world is a fast moving one and it’s easy to get behind on the latest developments. By checking in regularly with Health Junkie, you can keep abreast of all the latest sports news headlines as well as finding out what sports, fitness or health events are happening locally near you. 

Rugby, football, hockey, netball, cricket, tennis, golf, fishing, hunting, badminton, rowing, sailing, basketball, soccer, baseball, table tennis, American football, cycling, running, kayaking, boxing, speedway, Formula 1… whenever whatever spins your wheels makes the news, Health Junkie will have it covered. 

Sports Club of the Week

In this section of the Health Junkie Web site, we take a look at one of the many sports clubs in New Zealand. We’ve asked them to tell us more about their sport, when they play, where they play, what you need to get started and how you can get involved.

Get Featured As Sports Club of the Week! 

If you belong to a sports club and would like to be featured as our ‘Sports Club of the Week’, please contact the editor. We’d love to hear from you. We love a good giggle too, so if you have a funny story about your sports club, a photo or video, please send them through too, so we can publish them for other Health Junkies to enjoy. 

Health Junkie provides some great resources to help you take control of getting more active and eating more healthily including:

  • My Health & Fitness - Create a free Health Junkie account and use an online meal planner, easy to update and printable shopping list and activity diary. Perfect for keeping an eye on how much sports or fitness activity you’re doing and on what you’re eating every week! Your diary can also help you keep it life more interesting by changing your routines.
  • Sports Clubs - Find out more about the sports clubs based in your region and how you can join.
  • Sports News - Read the latest sports headlines from New Zealand and around the world.