Morning Walks

Come join me for a morning walk. I start at 8:00 and complete 4 laps. This is not a race, rather a quiet cool way to start your day. You never know what you will see!

Some walking facts

Yes... I read Real Simple magazine once in a while..between issues of Sports Illustrated and Golf magazine. This is a great and informative article on the benefits of walking. Here is an article about creating a walking walking workout that works and that fits into your schedule.



Don't forget about those stairs on the sides of our building. Not only are they always clear, but you have to walk a ways to get to them.



Enjoy

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Walk your way to fitness

Some of you probably saw John C. this morning walking around the building, and some of you saw me in the afternoon doing the same thing. It was a beautiful day today and I wanted to get this started before the snow hits us again for Easter. (There goes the planting session I had planned next week) If you couldn't make it today, don't worry. We will continue with this for the rest of the year and maybe extend it to pick-up basketball or softball or even biking around the building if people want to bring in their equipment. I work out 3/4 days a week at Sparta Athletic Club, but I have been slacking on the off days. This is a great way to get a 30 minute walk in and just relieve some stress at the end of the day.



Feel free to comment on this using the blog or create a new post with other ideas you might have. I would love for this to extend to the kids in some way, because 30 minutes a day is really all it takes. Society is looking at this closely too. The statistics are scary. Take a look at this article and let's see what we can do in our community to help fight the good fight.

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Walking club's maiden voyage

The "WALK your way to fitness" sessions will begin on Monday, April 2nd. There will be two sessions, one in the morning at 7:30 and one in the afternoon at 4:10. Each will last for 30 minutes or so. We will see if this catches on and we can eventually have races.

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A Supersize Problem

This is the article you received at the meeting this morning...an interesting read to say the least. Using McDonald's terminology to describe the problem echoes the fact that the problem is easily solved through educating about the right choices. Read through the article and feel free to comment.

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Walking club

One thing that we spoke about at our last meeting was the possibility of having a walking club during the last 10 or so minutes of lunch. Any thoughts on how to organize this? Any volunteers?

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Meeting on Wednesday

We will be meeting on Wed. March 28th to discuss a couple of things.
1. survey results- we will look at the numbers and come up with a course of action and some possible directions in which to move.
2. We will have Dr. Eric with us. He is a chiropractor in town and he will be able to put us in contact with different people in the field that might be interested in donating time and knowledge.
3. Newsletter- all of you have seen a copy of the newsletter- I would love some more feedback about what future issues might look like. I was thinking something along the lines of success stories; maybe start with internet stories and invite kids in our school to submit stories of healthy lifestyle choices.

thanks again