Sponsored post: BUPA COMPETITION…WHAT DOES HEALTHY MEAN TO YOU?

I have to admit…the word “healthy” often makes me shudder. Images of being at school, in a cold wet field in horrible itchy sports gear with barking teachers dictating what I should be doing never ever striked me as enjoyable.

You see my idea of healthy is cunningly disguised in the form of something fun…whilst I loath the gym and treadmills I have no problem walking for miles with our family dog Gruff. See! *points below*

There is something all that more appealing when you set out on an adventure with a four legged friend. Perhaps its his constant enthusiasm for getting out, being social and exploring that makes walking with him all that more enticing…

Our favourite walk is in Richmond Park (and no hes not like the infamous Fenton!). We have a particular path we both love, it’s where all the dog folk go so he can meet his friends and it’s a long stretch of open fields, past the horse tracks and up to the cluster of trees where the squirrels live.

This is where we do our aerobics and weights, Gruff constantly bounding from tree to tree, jumping up and down like a mad thing, and me? I lift him up and down do he can get a better view of squirrels he will never ever be able to catch. When you’re carrying a 10kg Westie it can be just as good as weights in the gym!

Our stroll lasts us a good hour and then it’s home for a much deserved breakfast and snooze.

So what does healthy mean to you?

Bupa are looking for someone to star in their national TV ad!

As part of a social media campaign, Bupa have launched a nationwide competition to support their new adaptable health insurance product, Bupa By You. The competition invites members of the public to upload short videos of how what healthy means to them. 3 winning videos, selected from a shortlist voted for by the public, will appear on air as a Bupa TV commercial at the beginning of 2012.

Bupa have acknowledged that Healthy means different things to different people and depending on who you are your idea of healthy could be anything from waterskiing to playing with your kids to singing Karaoke to your worst miss in football etc… It’s totally individual to you.

The public will vote for their favourites and the three winners will actually be screened on national TV.

Not only that, there’s a first prize of a MacBook Air and two runner-up prizes of Flip Mino 3 pocket-sized HD camcorders. Here’s a video example to get you inspired!

For more information and to enter the competition click here

The only rules are participants’ clips must be 25 seconds long and should not contain anything inappropriate. Closing date is Sunday January 8 2012.

Disclosure: this is a sponsored post!