Wellness team - advice for captain

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dss62467

Cathlete
This morning I was thinking about things I'd like to do as the team captain for our department's wellness team. I am going to get each member a Salad Blaster Bowl from www.ContainerStore.com (if you don't have one of these - YOU NEED ONE! http://www.containerstore.com/brows...73789&CATID=74067&searchId=250322&itemIndex=2 )

This will be to encourage their increase in vegetable consumption everyday. I also am planning to have daily walks around the nearby park, and to the mall on yucky days.

I'd like to send daily Healthy Tips, but need a good source for them. Anyone have any ideas? Or know of a website that shoots daily healthy tip emails?
 
What about doing a pedometer program to include w/ your walks? Give (or sell) everyone a pedometer (they're pretty cheap <$10) and set a goal for 10,000 steps/day.

Congratulations on you're new job! I'm hoping to do something similar once I graduate - I may need some advise from you when that time comes ;)

~Shannon
 
realage.com sends daily health tips e-mails - and have your Team Members take the Real Age test while you're at it. I always find it interesting to see where I fall on the Real Age scale. :)

I second the pedometer idea. I'm wearing my department-issued pedometer right now as part of an 8-week walking program. Our department is competing against another department to see who can walk the most miles in 8 weeks. Along with our pedometers, we received tips on safe walking, maps of local walking trails and distances of those trails, tips for getting more walking into your day, etc.
 
Shannon - I didn't get a new job. I'm just the elected "team captain" because I'm the most dedicated to health in the department. I did snag a guy from the IT department who I know is healthy, but he's a low-carb person. I sure hope he's eating his vegetables because he doesn't eat fruit.

The pedometer thing was done already earlier in the year. It wasn't a huge success, I don't think. At least with the slugs in my department. But then again...I didn't take part in it because walking is too "wimpy" for me.:)
 
Donna,
I was team captain for a local fitness challenge (Active for Life, in collaboration with the American Cancer Society). We got points for fruit/vegetable consumption (5 points per serving), water consumption (5 pts per 8 oz. glass), activity (1 pt. per minute, or equivalencies based on wearing a pedometer), and bonus points (this was rather bogus: 50 points per activity, with 50 pts. per week maximum. I think it would have worked much better to do what Ediets does for their challenges: 5 activities for the week--ie: do 3 sets of 10 push-ups, read an article on health/fitness, bring a healthy lunch to work, etc.--with each one being worth a number of points).

(FYI: our team came in first or second in all areas: first in F/V consumption, and second in all others--behind a student team of "kids" at least 20 years our junior!)
 
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