 Choose
to Challenge Yourself
- Earn Healthy Points by taking the Challenge.
- Learn a new activity.
- Increase your activity level.
Objectives: 1) To learn and practice a new activity. Different
activities normally use different muscles. A different activity
engages muscles not used in your ordinary exercise activity. For
example, if walking is your normal activity and you add a few
minutes of another exercise such as swimming, aerobics, etc., you’ll
increase the strength and flexibility of different muscles and
connective tissue.
2) To increase strength and endurance. Increasing both strength
and endurance raises your fitness level. This also lowers your risk
for certain diseases, helps to achieve and maintain a healthy
weight, and makes you look and feel better.
This will be a 4 week personal challenge starting April 14, 2006.
Challenge yourself by setting your own weekly goals and choosing
your own new activities. For instance, your currently walk 20
minutes each day- five times each week. You may choose as a second
activity riding a bicycle and your new goal might be 30 minutes of
exercise each day. So, you could walk 15 minutes and ride 15 minutes
(or a combination of the two to make 30 minutes). The minimum
exercise time for an exercise is 10 minutes.
You want to increase your goal each week while doing at least two
different exercises. So week two, you might set your goal at 40
minutes of exercise each day – minimum five days each week – any
combination of the exercises (could be 10 minutes walking and 30
minutes riding).
Challenge yourself for 4 weeks. You can choose any exercises that
you enjoy as long as the level of exertion is the same as taking a
brisk walk.
Continue to record your time on the “logging
your journey” page.
In the text block under Wellness Education (see below) – please type
in your activities, such as walking, bike riding, aerobics, Tai Chi,
belly dancing, etc.
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