Round Two Is Complete!
Make sure you and your teammates submit your results before
Tuesday October 27, at 11:59 PM! We're half way through our most popular
challenge yet. To date, we've walked
313,359,194 steps or almost 1,300 times around the earth.
- Login and click on "Goals & Data Submission" to
submit your results. Your results must be submitted by
11:59PM EST on Tuesday.
- You may also report your
results by calling 1-877-881-0085 or by giving your log sheet to
your team captain, who can enter results on your behalf.
- Team
Standings will be published on Wednesday and announced by email. Good
luck to your team!
Greetings!
Greetings to all of you Shape Up & Go superstars! Have
you managed to surprise yourself with exactly how active you are becoming? It's
easier than you thought to be healthy and make good Go! food choices. Round 1
was
clearly dominated by the
Regional
Hospitals who took the top three spots in both Pedometer Steps and Weight Loss!
Teams
Drauma Center from Fairview
and
Go Lite-Lee from South Pointe are tearing it up. We're delighted by your
success! Thank you for being such wellness champions. All our teams are off to
a great start and we can already tell you're in it to win it! After all,
with
such great prizes at stake - and your own benefits, who wouldn't go the extra mile or three? Keep in mind that one mile is about 2,000 steps. Many of you
are walking more than four miles a day after two rounds.
Challenge yourself with an increased goal in this upcoming round!
Try for 12,000 steps per day and take advantage of this magnificent Fall weather
to go for some brisk walks! We're predicting this will be the year you raise the bar for yourselves and everyone else.
On that happy note we offer you this snippet of exercise
humor:
You know it is
time to resume exercising when...
- You try to do a few
pushups and discover that certain body parts refuse to leave the floor.
- Your children look
through your wedding album and want to know who mom's first husband was.
- You get winded just
saying the words "10 kilometer run".
- You come to the
conclusion that, if you were really meant to touch your toes each morning,
they would have been put somewhere around your knees.
- You analyze your body
honestly and decide what you should develop first is your sense of humor.
- You step on a talking
scale and it says, "Come back when you are alone".
Keep up the great work and we'll see you next week!
Now that we have you attention, we hope you enjoy the joke of
the week that was submitted by Diane Woods.
Subject: Browns Fan
A guy walks into a bar wearing a Browns jersey and carrying a cat that
also
has a Browns jersey on with a little Browns helmet on his head, too.
The guy says to the bartender, "Can my cat and I watch the Browns
game here?
My TV at home is broke, and my cat and I always watch the game
together."
The bartender replies, "Normally, cats wouldn't be allowed in the
bar, but
it's not very busy in here right now, so you and the cat can have a seat
at
the end of the bar. But, if there's any trouble with you or the cat, I'll
have to ask you to leave."
The guy agrees, and he and his cat start watching the game. Pretty soon
the
Browns kick a field goal and the excited cat jumps up on the bar and
walks
down the bar and gives everyone a high five.
The bartender says, "Hey, that's pretty cool! What does he do for a touchdown?"
The guy answers, "I don't know, I've only had him for 5 years."
Keep up the great work, keep the jokes coming,
and most of all keep smiling!
send your jokes to
youdocs@gmail.com.
Yours in Health,
Cleveland Clinic Employee Wellness
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