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Dear Teaming Up to Move Forward,

Wow!  We start Monday, September 10!  Our group is 80 members strong, with the largest contingency coming from the Dining Hall staff.  Your goals are impressive and destinations an interesting attachment to your lives.  Many of you are “traveling” to your home town or place of special interest, perhaps a vacation spot.  You will find Doug Haberland’s personal testimony and place of journey particularly interesting.  Enjoy Doug’s story and consider sharing your own in the weeks to come.

Please refer to our wellness website often for updates and tips.  Check the conversion chart if you choose to participate in any other activities that will add miles to your totals.

Please remember to total your miles each week and email to Johnnes and I by Sunday.  We will then add the mileage to your personal chart in the fitness center for you to visualize each time you stop by.  Best wishes for our 36 week adventure.  If we can be of any help to you, please let us know.  Below are a few tips as we get started:

1. Be proud and confident of your decision to participate in this program.  Do not let doubt hold you back.
2. Determine to stick with your plan each week.  Plan when you will work out each day (when, where, how much) and make yourself do it.   The first 3 weeks and the winter months are the most difficult.  Write it down and commit.
3. Enjoy working out with friends and family.  We are doing this together- for personal and community wellness.  Let’s encourage each other.
4. Take advantage of our fitness center classes- an amenity unique to our setting!
5. Have fun. Physiologically our bodies are meant to move.  It may feel unnatural at times, but it is really one of the most natural things we can do. 
6. If you need assistance with a fitness plan, please contact me and we will schedule a meeting.  We want you to be successful!.

Thank you!

Dana Neer

Moving Forward

By Doug Haberland

With age, I have come to realize that exercise doesn’t happen naturally for me anymore. It is something that I have to work at, but I don’t. I know all the health benefits, but yet seemed to be trapped in a sedentary lifestyle. I’m overweight, out of shape, and I don’t like it. So, I am “saddling up” and taking a trip through the Black Hills. Since I lack motivation, I am using my interest in the Old West and a book, “Exploring with Custer,” to retrace the 833-mile, two-month expedition that George Custer and the 7^th Cavalry took into the Black Hills in 1874. I’ll be following the same route, re-reading the book as I go, and tracking my progress.  Who knows? I may find gold!

P.S. The expedition, of course, was done on horseback – so I don’t expect to match Custer’s daily progress.

Teaming up to Move Forward

We will begin our new year of training together on September 10 with our program called “Teaming up to Move Forward”.   This will be a yearlong adventure, focusing on daily consistency with fitness focus.  If you are interested in participating, please contact me and we will sign you up.  Please keep in mind the following:

1.       Determine the number of miles you would like to move during the course of the school year, culminating on June 5.  Be aggressive, yet sensible when determining that number.  Then, associate that with an actual place in the United States (town, national park, favorite street, etc.) For example, if I would like to move 900 miles this year, I could pick Bear Creek, Montana as my place of destination. 

2.       Refer to our activity conversion chart that will specify how to turn activity into miles (15 minutes of handball equals 1 mile, etc.) and then calculate your weekly total and submit to Johnnes Tulungen and I.  We will track your mileage throughput the year on a chart in the fitness center.  If you walk or run, obviously a mile is a mile.

3.       We will award the end of the year goal achievers with a choice of 3 things:  a.) 1 hour massage and dinner out.  b.) Production at the Honeywell Center in Wabash, or c.) Paid entry to a “Tough Mudder Race” and dinner out.

4.       Your workouts can be done independently, in group sessions as you join friends and colleagues or in fitness center classes.

Please join us.  If you already have a workout plan in place, this is for you.  If you need a positive group setting to motivate you, this is for you.  Email me today to get started.

Dana Neer

Wellness Director

Triathlon Training

The Fitness Center is pleased to announce that we will contract a certified triathlon instructor to lead us each week in training as we prepare for the Lake Max Triathlon.  We will meet every Wednesday from 12:15-1:15 in the lobby of the fitness center for instruction and aerobic fitness.  We will address each element- swim, bike, run and transition.  This will be a great time of group interaction and mental preparation as well. 

Please note that this class is offered to everyone, even if you do not plan on participating in the triathlon.  Please contact Jen Cerny or Dana Neer to sign up.

Thank you,

Dana Neer

Bike Trip: June 27

Join us for a wonderful morning of biking on the Nickel Plate Trail.  

Your Wellness Staff has organized a biking trip on Wednesday morning, June 27 for you and your family.  

We will provide lunch, drinks and transportation- all you need to do is sign up by emailing Janet Johnson at jan69552003@yahoo.com

We will meet at the Fitness Center on June 27 at 7:30 am to load bikes and depart at 8:00 am.  Arrival at the trail will be approximately 8:40 and return to campus at 12:15.

Whatever your desire, we will facilitate a memorable biking experience:

·         If you want to press the pace for 30 plus miles, please sign up.

·         If your family would like to leisurely bike while stopping along the way to play or picnic, this trip is for you.

·         If your idea of a perfect morning is biking 5-10 miles out and back, followed by a piece of pie and a cup of coffee at a local diner on the trail, consider joining us.

The Nickel Plate Railroad was chartered is 1846 and served passengers until 1932.  The old railroad bed was paved in 2004 and functions as a beautiful tree lined path for bikers of all ages.

We hope to see you there!

Thank you,

Dana Neer

List of participants who reached their goals!

Below, in no particular order, are participants who reached their goals in Culver's Miles for Fun and Fitness program. Congratulations!
You can come and get your prize from Dana's office in Fitness Center. Thanks for all of the support, motivation and enthusiasm.

No          Name

1             Cory Barnes

2             Dana Bennett

3             Dana Neer

4             Diann Parsons

5             John Oberwetter

6             Johnnes Tulungen

7             Julee Anderson

8             Kathy Smart

9             Kelly Norton

10           Kristi Nelson

11           Richard Coven

12           Stephanie Hall

13           Susan Freymiller

14           Vilma Van Horn

15           John D. Uebler

16           Emily Uebler

17           Andrew Dorrel

18           Steve Coleman

19           Terry Coleman

20           Linda Miller

21           Debrah Fox

22           Shelly Harrison

23           Maureen LaFaive

Smoothie Recipe

By Diann Parsons

I wanted to share a recipe for everyone to try.  It’s a good way to get some extra fruit in your diet and feel like you are treating yourself!

Smoothie

1 4 oz container of strawberry nonfat yogurt

1 cup frozen strawberries

1 cup frozen blueberries

1 cup frozen cherries

2 cups orange juice

1 cup fruit punch Gatorade

Puree all ingredients in blender until smooth. 

Nutritional info:

Fat:  0.7 g

Carbohydrates:  32.4g

Calories:  138.4

Protein:  2.5g

I sometimes add a handful of raw spinach leaves – you can’t taste them but they add some extra nutritional value.  When I have leftovers, I freeze it in individual serving size containers and have it for an evening treat.

Diann R. Parsons, C.P.M.