1. Wellness Challenge Summer 2010
Walk Across America
Wellness Challenge
Summer 2010

2. The Basics
Focus is on EXERCISE (although you should still eat fruits and veggies )
Buy a pedometer and count your steps OR
Any exercise will do!
We can calculate how many steps a particular exercise is “worth”
Individual Effort

3. Rules You choose the route you want to take Entry Fee
$10
Figure out your number of steps
Send log to me each Monday
See yourself move around on the map
First person back to Salt Lake wins!
Weekly bonus challenges can get you bonus steps…

4. Logistics Twelve Weeks Week runs Monday – Sunday
Begins June 28th and Ends September 19th
Week runs Monday – Sunday
Turn in logs for previous week on Monday morning
Step Conversion Chart will be available on the Intranet

5. Routes/Starting Points
Hollywood
Jersey Shore
Fargo
The Big Apple
Miami Beach
Graceland
One Big Circle

6. Motivation Informal Teams No team scores, though.  Websites
Let’s Move
America on the Move
President’s Challenge
Get your family involved!
Map
Prizes
Recognition

7. Prizes Depends on how many people enter Weekly Prizes? Bi-weekly?
Big Final Prize
Wii? Cash?

8. Why Are We Doing Another Challenge?
The 1st one was fun!
Some people need motivation to keep exercising
Some people need competition to stay motivated
Obesity is an epidemic

9. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1985
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14%

10. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1986
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14%

11. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1987
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14%

12. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1988
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14%

13. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1989
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14%

14. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1990
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14%

15. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1991
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14% %–19%

16. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1992
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14% %–19%

17. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1993
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14% %–19%

18. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1994
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14% %–19%

19. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1995
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14% %–19%

20. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1996
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14% %–19%

21. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1997
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14% %–19% ≥20%

22. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1998
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14% %–19% ≥20%

23. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1999
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14% %–19% ≥20%

24. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2000
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14% %–19% ≥20%

25. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2001
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14% %–19% %–24% ≥25%

26. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2002
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14% %–19% %–24% ≥25%

27. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2003
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14% %–19% %–24% ≥25%

28. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2004
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
We have never had an epidemic like this that we have been able to track so thoroughly and see. As I told you, this is conservative.
About 60 million adults, or 30 percent of the adult population, are now obese, which represents a doubling of the rate since 1980.
No Data <10% %–14% %–19% %–24% ≥25%

29. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2005
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
We have never had an epidemic like this that we have been able to track so thoroughly and see. As I told you, this is conservative.
About 60 million adults, or 30 percent of the adult population, are now obese, which represents a doubling of the rate since 1980.
No Data <10% %–14% %–19% %–24% %–29% ≥30%

30. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2006
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
We have never had an epidemic like this that we have been able to track so thoroughly and see. As I told you, this is conservative.
About 60 million adults, or 30 percent of the adult population, are now obese, which represents a doubling of the rate since 1980.
No Data <10% %–14% %–19% %–24% %–29% ≥30%

31. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2007
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
We have never had an epidemic like this that we have been able to track so thoroughly and see. As I told you, this is conservative.
About 60 million adults, or 30 percent of the adult population, are now obese, which represents a doubling of the rate since 1980.
No Data <10% %–14% %–19% %–24% %–29% ≥30%

32. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2008
(*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs. overweight for 5’ 4” person)
No Data <10% %–14% %–19% %–24% %–29% ≥30%

33. Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1990, 1999, 2008
(*BMI 30, or about 30 lbs. overweight for 5’4” person)
1990
1999
2008
No Data <10% %–14% %–19% %–24% %–29% ≥30%

34. Do I Have To Participate?
No – But why wouldn’t you want to? 