Additional Physical Activity Programs

StairWELL to Better Health: A Worksite Intervention
A program to encourage taking the stairs as a means of increasing physical activity. Components include:

• Improving the visual appeal of your stairwells
• Creating and testing motivational signs
• Installing music
• Tracking stair usage
• Project checklist
• Related resources

Arkansas Fitness Challenge
A competitive physical activity program for the workplace that encourages employees to exercise consistently or with increasing frequency. During the “challenge period,” employees engage in eligible cardiovascular-oriented exercises to work their way through 30 virtual checkpoints in Arkansas from Bentonville to West Memphis. Employees advance (virtually) on the Arkansas route by satisfying one daily exercise requirement from a list of eligible exercises. Call 1-800-235-0002 for a tool kit.

Working Well/Active for Life
A healthy lifestyle doesn’t have to stop when you get to work. The American Cancer Society can help you implement an employee wellness program at your company that promotes healthier lifestyles for you and your fellow employees. Active For Life is a 10-week employee wellness program that encourages people to be more active on a regular basis. It reduces employee stress, boosts morale and improves job performance. Increased physical activity may also help people reduce their risk of developing some cancers. Find this American Cancer Society program at http://www.fightcancer.org/ACSWW/default.asp

Walk Across Arkansas
The purpose is to increase walking for fitness and to help people control their weight, feel better, lower or control blood pressure, control blood sugar levels, decrease depression, improve sleeping, boost immunity and many other benefits. Walk Across Arkansas is an eight-week walking program with teams of up to eight people (one captain and up to seven team members). Cooperative Extension Service, 2301 S. University Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72204. www.uaex.edu

Move for Life!
A program designed to help employees of all physical abilities regardless of age, current fitness level or activity level. One of the keys of Move for Life! is its flexibility. It can be made longer or shorter and scheduled to fit the company’s schedule. It recognizes that all employees are not at the same level of fitness nor do they have the same interest in being active. Move for Life! allows participants to set their own personal goals ranging from moderate activities like walking or doing yard work to more intense ones like running and swimming. Then they record their daily activities and begin tracking their progress. New York Health Dept., Room 1748, Corning Tower, Albany, NY 12237, www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/healthy/move.htm

< Back to Worksite Wellness