Tuesday, January 26, 2016

2016 Live Healthy Iowa is HERE!!



It is Week 1 of the 2016 Live Healthy Iowa 10 Week Challenge!  It’s time to get motivated and moving to make healthier lifestyle choices!  Let’s strap on our shoes, step on that scale, and begin this journey together!

What is your plan to get moving this week?   Leave a comment below and you’ll be entered into a drawing to win a chance at one of ten liveWELL lunch boxes. Comments must be submitted by February 2, 2016 .

(To leave a comment, click on "Comments" and at the bottom will be an space to enter your team name and your name. Use the drop down box and select "Anonymous'. Entries must be submitted by midnight, Tuesday, February 2nd.) 

74 comments:

  1. Running outside this weekend and walking my dog.

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  2. We're walking at lunchtime and hitting the gym before or after work most days. Dwindling Divas (Anna)

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  3. After two years of near-total inactivity due to a badly broken leg I'm trying to increase my activity by walking my dog in the mornings and have actually made some steps into actually using my gym membership again!

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  4. The FitBit Flex I got for Christmas has challenged me to hit my 10K steps a day. I am taking only the stairs at work (work on 5th floor!) and walking 15-20 minutes 3 times a day this week. Want to figure out some fun activities for weekends since I am home and not commuting to work by foot. Booking it at the Library II (Sara Riggs)

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  5. My plan to get myself and my team motivated and moving this week is to send out an inspirational quote to them each morning. Go Roaming Gnomes!

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  6. we are planning to the gym/work out at home at least 5 times a week...

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  7. Every morning I am up at 4:00 to workout and I use my Fitbit for motivation to walk at least 4 miles a day!

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  8. We're walking as much as possible and I'm riding my bike when I'm not walking!

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  9. I just bought a YMCA membership today. I work from Des Moines so don't get to use the University of Iowa facilities. I also was gifted a Fitbit Flex so I'm going to start using that as well. Would love a lunch box to carry my lunch in for work- just started packing my own!

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  10. We are planning on taking extra steps either in the office or in between caring for our patients. And we are working at motivating everyone on the team.

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  11. Team TuTu Tastic has started doing physical activities on our morning and afternoon breaks. This is also helping each of us to "get away" from your work space for a few minutes every day!

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  12. We're getting out to to run in this beautiful weather!! I can feel spring in the air!! Get outside people!! :-)

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  13. We are utilizing the benefits of having the Fieldhouse close by!

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  14. I am on team Fight, Fight, Fight for Fitness. Some of us have Fitbits, so we have become Fitbit friends so we can challenge each other. I am trying to walk more and have downloaded the app couch to 5k to try to gradually start some running.

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  15. Team #notgivingup walks 3 times a week together over their lunch hour at the FH track.

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  16. Team Pomerantz Powerhouse - I have started going to the Rec Building to lift weights and jog. 2x so far this week! The team is making plans for what 5k's we might do together. - Amanda McFadden.

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  17. Team Hear No Evil is walking regularly at lunch and some are doing yoga in the evenings!

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  18. Team PuMP it Up is running, doing cardio and lifting at the gym! -Jonathan Bluemke, Team PuMP it Up

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  19. I bought a Scheels treadmill. The program I use is - 29 minutes brisk walking at 3.2 mph. I do this twice a day. WIVR-Stone - Dianna

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  20. Watching my tv shows while exercising-wanting to see the next episode is incentive for continuing to work out!

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  21. Richard Garrison team Itty Bitties - Our team is comprised of people doing many different activities. We have people using the gym, walkers, runners and everything in between.

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  22. I am on team Fight, Fight, Fight for Fitness. The daily discussions of team members activities motivate me to continue to look for ways to keep active and moving.

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  23. My office has a discussion every afternoon about how we plan to be active after work. Then in the morning we discuss whether or not we carried through on the plans

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  24. I am boxing/kickboxing 9 hours a week and I know my teammates are keeping up the pace with cardio and weight lifting as well. We are "Taking it to the Next Level" :)

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  25. I'm using a fitbit watch for a friendly competition of steps with my colleagues.

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  26. Our team is getting together to walk stairs in Calvin Hall once or twice a day. I'm also trying to hit the CRWC at least 3 times a week to play basketball or ride the bikes.

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  27. I am walking to and from my car in the Finkbine Lot everyday. And we are working on some team activities. We are "Active Ingredients"

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  28. dealing with Achilles Tendonitis, but making it to the gym to bike for 20 minutes every other day.

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  29. Moira Petersen: CDD Debutantes - I'm trying to walk more! It's snowy and icy at the moment, but I wrap up well and head out. Sometimes it feels more like ice skating, but hey ... it's still exercise! :)

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  30. I am trying to increase the amount of walking each day.

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  31. Our department recently moved from a convenient area to walk long distances indoors at noon. Now we need to get creative when the weather isn't nice enough to walk outside. The stairs in our new building will be getting a work out, and so will I.
    Anita, Team Speedy Rocket Turtles

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  32. We are training for a 10k so I am going to be running 30 minutes every day! - Lydia Neeley

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  33. Sherri K. Team Tippie - Have added walking 30 mins. on treadmill before I go to my 60 mins. Body Combat class.

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  34. My goal is to take an indirect route to wherever I'm going.

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  35. Our team is working out over the lunch hour at Fitness East, and encouraging others to join us!

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  36. Amber Swerczek- "Hey, I'm Walking Here!"January 28, 2016 at 7:46 AM

    Trying a new activity every week! Just did Tai Chi for the first time this week.

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  37. The eagles are out by the Iowa River and fun to watch as I am out walking my Beagle.

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  38. I am part of the Team Big Bleeders. My plans are to do at least 10,000 steps a day (easily done so far!), burn 300 calories by exercising and cutting 200 calories by adding more vegetable (easily done so far!) and eliminating low grade carbs (very difficult so far!).

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  39. Team Itty Bitties are using the stairs more often for meetings and walking on our breaks. We have also purchased exercise equipment for our homes and office to keep active.

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  40. Linda Spence - "CON-tinue Healthy Living" Challenging team members on activity and tracking so we CON(College of Nursing) continue being healthy.

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  41. The Fitness Awakens - on Monday several of us scheduled our fitness activities for the entire week. We've been talking and encouraging each other to take one step at a time. - Allyn Lambertz

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  42. We're trying new MensHealth workouts.
    'Hey, I'm walking here!'
    Steve

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  43. Our team, "Fight, Fight, Fight for Fitness" is enjoying a little friendly competition through the Fitbit "Weekday Hustle" challenge- team member that logs the most steps between Monday- Friday wins!

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  44. Our team has been sharing our personal goals along with our team specific goals with each other to help keep us accountable.

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  45. Getting rid of the last of the ice on my driveway! It's actually been a month-long process, and it's giving me a great arm/shoulder workout.

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  46. The Museum Movers have been putting an exhibit together this week and it opens today at the Old Capitol Museum! Lots of lifting, walking, pushing, and moving happening this week.

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  47. We are going to get the dogs some walks in this warmer weather, in addition to our 30 minute workout videos each day.

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  48. Setting my alarm 15 minutes earlier to leave for the gym and meet my teammate!

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  49. Walking with colleagues over lunch and opting to take the hill head on!

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  50. Our team is walking around the inside of our building during lunch this week
    (You Passion, Jan)

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  51. Walk past the elevators and take the stairs instead.
    You Passion. Melissa

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  52. We're going to kick up our boots and go line dancing tonight! Yeehaw! Go ESL Team Awesome!

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  53. Getting healthy be eating well and exercising responsibly. (We're the Millers)

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  54. I schedule my exercise each day, stretch during commercials (if I watch TV), and built in 10 min daily strength exercises. Team RadSci Educators.

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  55. Working on getting those 10,000 steps per day! (Patricia Groves, The Experimental Group)

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  56. I set a tangible activity goal for this week and have kept it in mind and actually am on target to meet it! Lots of good team conversation happening by email, too, so we're keeping each other motivated.

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  57. Going to Zumba this afternoon. (Team Stick to it)

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  58. We as a department are challenging each other to go to the gym or to work out. It's been a fun week.

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  59. I love my dog, who is getting older and has a birthday coming up. As a present to him and me we are taking extra long walks. Team Gnu Ewe.

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  60. trying to get over 10,000 steps a day! (Team exercise? I thought you said extra fries!)

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  61. I plan to park in a parking spot further out in the parking lot (not going to search for that close one anymore). At work, I plan to make a couple laps around our building during my lunch break.

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  62. Yolanda, Team Captain I joined a local gym since last year I wanted to do more but I had no indoor space to go to. This year... NO EXCUSES!

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  63. The Jane Addams Never Settled crew has a Facebook page where we check in with each other daily to share our plans and activities. They're all as different as we are, but all good!

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  64. Going for a run and enjoying this beautiful winter weather... before the blizzard

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  65. the CCOMe on, You Can Do It! group members are becoming FitBit friends, and inviting each other to group classes!

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  66. I have been attending group exercise classes at the CRWC over my lunch hours! Great work out to balance out the day.

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  67. I set a goal of 15,000 steps a day on my FitBit for five of the seven days last week, and I made it! Also, started the challenge off last week with my team with a healthy salad lunch and discussed our goals and encouraged everyone to get moving!!

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  68. I bought a treadmill at Play it Again sports. Empty nesting now, so put it in daughter's old bedroom, and watch Downton Abbey reruns so I get a good 40 minutes in without realizing it!

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  70. Bought a treadmill from Play it Again sports- the guys there are really helpful and tailor it to your needs! Put it in the spare bedroom since we're new empty nesters and watch DVDs of Downton Abbey while walking so I get in 40 minutes without realizing it!

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  71. to make it to boxing class at least 3 days a week.

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