TODAY is the last day to input steps for week 2!

Log your steps TODAY!

Why Strength Training?

Strength training and stretching have all around benefits for an individual. Strength training can improve body composition, help reduce bone loss, osteoporosis, and injuries to the back. Did you know strength training can also help improve your flexibility as an individual starts to age? Strength training can be done in a wellness center, in the office, or at home click here for accessible instructional videos.

The Center of Disease Control recommends adults should train major muscle groups 2 or more days each week. While training an individual should follow these guidelines:

• 2-4 sets of each exercise

• 8-12 repetitions

• 48 hours of rest in-between strength training sessions

• Body weight is an effect strength training tool if an individual is training at home

How FLEXIBLE are you really?

Flexibility and mobility reduces day to day pain an individual may have from being sedentary. While increasing blood flow, energy levels, and improve balance becoming more flexible helps reduce risk of falling in all populations. Center of Disease Control recommends adults should practice flexibility 2-3 days per week.

Ways to improve flexibility include:

• Take/find an online yoga or Pilates class

• Add simple stretches while sitting at your desk, in class, or while standing

• Stretch after a workout when muscles are warm

The Get Moving Challenge is in the third week. Enter your steps by the end of today. Each following week, you will keep track of your steps or convert them from other forms of activity (swimming, strength training, stair climbing…) and log them online.

Need some extra steps? Join us for our Indoor Virtual Wellness Walk today at 10 am! This is a modified, 15 minute walk you can do in any space. It is low impact and will help you start your day active! Connect with us on Zoom HERE, meeting ID: 961 4476 2219, password: walk422

Yoga converts to steps too! We are excited to bring Kay right to you! Kay will be LIVE on Tuesdays and Thursdays @ 10:00am through the end of the semester! Join us on Zoom HERE, meeting ID: 797 785 190, password: zenin10

Before you go...Stretch BREAK!

Is sitting at your desk causing you physical stress? You’re not alone. Many individuals spend the majority of our waking day sitting in front of a computer or relaxing in front of the television. All of this day-to-day inactivity causes our joints and muscles to get stiff and places stress on our bodies in different ways. Incorporating stretching & stretch breaks into your daily routine can help improve your productivity, ability to handle stress, and overall well-being. Stretching on a regular basis can help reduce muscular fatigue, tension, pain, and degenerative joint or disc problems and reenergizes your body.

Did Someone Say PRIZES?!

LOG IN and enter your steps today! The goal is to get you moving or to get you to more MORE. Don't forget each week there are chances to win individual or team prizes with FOUR $100 Grand Prizes ( 2 for students, 2 for faculty/staff/friends/family) given at the end.

**All prizes will be held until the Wellness Center is open and faculty/students/staff are not working remotely.

What IS the Get Moving Challenge?

The Get Moving Challenge is a Work Well sponsored program geared to build you awareness around movement and how it can be incorporated into our daily lives.

Get Moving Challenge runs from April 5 - May 1