The Quantum Foundation, a voluntary organisation, observed Total Fitness Day on Friday for the first time in the country, amid a call for achieving physical, mental, social and spiritual fitness.
The foundation organised a special awareness session on the National Press Club premises, where it arranged yoga exercises, body balance tests, meditations, and discussions, read a press release.
The foundation also organised such sessions in open spaces in different parts of the country.
Alongside, some volunteering organisations promoting fitness and wellness also observed the day.
Hundreds of people from different professions, including artists, journalists and students, celebrated the day by joining programmes across the country in the morning.
Besides, expatriate Bangladeshis living in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany and other parts of the world observed the day.
This year's theme of the day was “Healthy body and peaceful mind, busy happy life.”
From now on, the Quantum Foundation will observe Total Fitness Day on the first Friday of January every year.
