Join Nashville on the Move!

Held the first Friday of every month, Nashville on the Move is a free lunchtime walking event designed to help employees become more active during their workday. Nashville on the Move also encourages companies to take steps to improve their employees' health by taking the following specific measures:

• Activity breaks throughout the day 
• Serving healthy meeting food and snacks 
• Making water the primary workplace drink   

Nashville on the Move is organized by the YMCA of Middle Tennessee's Pioneering Healthier Communities initiative in partnership with Metro Public Health and area business partners; all working towards the same goal of offering work-site wellness strategies to help encourage more employees to be active during the work day.

How to Participate
Just come out and walk any portion of a Nashville on the Move walking route. Form an office walking group to join you and walk together, or just plan to meet new walking buddies on the route from other companies.


Indoor Walking Options
With respect to unpredictable changing weather patterns in the late fall and winter months, we encourage participants to find indoor options when bad weather strikes. 

Many companies in the downtown Nashville area have already selected or provided their indoor options to their employees and we encourage you or your company to also take that next step. 

If you choose to walk outdoors during the winter months, please remember to bring a water bottle with you.  We will not have water stations set up during colder weather months, but encourage you to bring a bottle of water if you feel that would help support your walk.  We still encourage you to use the outdoor walking routes to join others helping get Nashville on the move.

Everyone is welcome


Nashville on the Move is for all fitness levels-start where you are by doing something more today than you were yesterday. Walk just one block, walk five blocks, or walk the entire course. Everyone can do something! Make plans to join us and bring your co-workers.

For more information
Contact: Ted Cornelius at tcornelius@ymcamidtn.org or 615-259-9622.

Nashville on the Move is THIS FRIDAY, APRIL 1st - Outdoors.

About Nashville on the Move 
Held the first Friday of every month, Nashville on the Move is a free lunchtime walking event designed to help employees become more active during their workday. Nashville on the Move also encourages companies to take steps to improve their employees' health by taking the following specific measures:

• Activity breaks throughout the day 
• Serving healthy meeting food and snacks 
• Making water the primary workplace drink   

 Nashville on the Move is organized by the YMCA of Middle Tennessee's Pioneering Healthier Communities initiative in partnership with Metro Public Health and area business partners; all working towards the same goal of offering worksite wellness strategies to help encourage more employees to be active during the work day. How to Participate
Just come out and walk any portion of a Nashville on the Move walking route. Form an office walking group to join you and walk together, or just plan to meet new walking buddies on the route from other companies. Water stations will be set up along each of the following walking routes:
Route One - Near the Capital Building, includes James Robertson Parkway, Harrison St., 6th and 7th Ave. Two walks totaling 1.9 miles - Water and information station will be set up at the Farmers Market.
Route Two- Walking from 9th Ave. South, down Broadway to 4th Ave South, cross the Shelby Street bridge, around LP Field and back. Two walks totaling 2.7 miles - Water and information station will be set up at the Shelby Street Pedestrian Bridge.
Nashville on the Move is for all fitness levels-start where you are by doing something more today than you were yesterday. Walk just one block, walk five blocks, or walk the entire course. Everyone can do something! Make plans to join us and bring your co-workers.

Special Nashville on the Move Walk: Friday, Oct. 1

Please join Nashville Mayor Karl Dean this Friday, Oct. 1, for a special Nashville on the Move walk to kick off Walk Nashville Week.

We'll meet at the downtown Nashville Farmer's Market at 10:45 a.m. Following remarks by Mayor Dean, Metro Public Health Director Dr. William Paul and other community leaders, we'll leave together for a walk from the Farmer's Market.

Make plans to join us and bring along your co-workers!

More information about Walk Nashville Week

Next walk: Friday, Sept. 10

Take a few steps to improve your health by joining Nashville on the Move for its next walking day on Friday, Sept. 10.
As always, we'll have water stations set up along three walking routes throughout the downtown and West End areas. To participate, simply pick a route convenient to you and your co-workers and head out anytime between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Walking Routes and Additional Information

About Nashville on the Move

Nashville on the Move is a monthly lunchtime walking event designed to help Nashville-area workers to get moving during their workday. Nashville on the Move also encourages companies to take the following specific steps to improve their employees' health:

• Activity breaks for employees throughout the day
• Serving healthy meeting foods and snacks
• Making water the primary workplace drink

Hot weather moves Aug. 6 NOTM to the morning

Out of concerns for walkers' health during the current heat wave, Nashville on the Move will not hold its regular lunchtime walk on Aug. 6. However, several groups will be walking the routes in the morning before work and we encourage you to join them! Be sure to bring your own water (stations will not be set up), and we look forward to returning to our usual lunchtime walk when cooler temps hopefully prevail in September.

Nashville on the Move returns June 4!

Music City employers will join together to make a commitment to improve their employees' health during Nashville on the Move's monthly walk on Friday, June 4.

Downtown-area employees are encouraged to meet on the downtown side of the Shelby Street Bridge at 11:30 a.m. Walkers will then proceed across the bridge and circle LP Field. A water station will be set up on the bridge to provide refreshments and information to walkers.

Representatives from Mayor Karl Dean's office will join walkers and encourage Nashville employers to make a commitment to take specific steps to encourage their employees' health and well-being.

Walkers unable to attend Nashville on the Move at the Shelby Street Bridge location are encouraged to walk along three additional routes; one at the Farmers' Market, one at Legislative Plaza and the other at Centennial Park. Water and information will also be available at Nashville on the Move stations on each of these routes from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Start of Main Walking Route


View Nashville on the Move June 4 Walk in a larger map

Update: May 7 Walk Canceled

Due to this past weekend's storms and flooding, Nashville on the Move's May 7 walk has been canceled. Our next walk is now scheduled to take place on Friday, June 3.

Our thoughts are with those individuals and communities hit hardest by the flooding, and encourage everyone to volunteer and lend any other assistance they can to relief and recovery efforts.

Click here to sign up as a Flood Volunteer with Hands on Nashville
Donate to Flood Relief for Metro Nashville