2019 Wellness Challenge
Jennifer Hope | Business Development & Marketing Coordinator
Get Moving ARTA
As usual, ARTA members showed up and stood up for the annual wellness challenge. This year
we called the challenge Get Moving ARTA to promote that being active doesn’t just mean
walking or running. You can get active with a variety of activities — not every member has the
same interests or mobility. Once again we asked members to track their time, in minutes, spent
moving and being active. We provided our branch members with a resistance band to promote
strength training as an optional wellness activity
that could also be tracked as active minutes.
Here are the results of our Get Moving challenge.
Roger Mestinsek from Central East Retired
Teachers’ Association won the Individual Winner
Award for the most time tracked. Roger tracked
21,000 minutes, which is fantastic. Congratulations,
Roger, and keep moving!
The Calgary Retired Teachers’ Association
remains the champion for the Branch Winner Award
with 214,343 total active minutes tracked. Way to
go, CRTA! You are an inspiration to our members.
The Okanagan Alberta Retired Teachers’
Association won the Branch Participation Award
for the branch that had the highest percentage of
participants involved, with forty-seven per cent of
OKARTA members. Perhaps the beautiful sunshine
that OKARTA members get helps with getting
members active. Great work, OKARTA.
With so many ways you can keep active, we were
pleased to see some new activities listed, such as
tai chi, weight training, and canoeing. Of course,
the most popular activities were walking and
swimming. Keeping active is an important part of
mental and physical wellness. Find an activity you
enjoy that keeps your heart pumping. If you
are consistent at being active, you
will see the benefi ts that
being active can
bring to not only
your physical
body but your
mental state as
well.
Keep moving, ARTA,
and watch for the 2020 wellness
challenge announcement. ●
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