JOIN THE BURN
GET ACTIVE!!!
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If you are a total couch - or mouse - potato, the Get Active program will get you moving.
Each week for 12 weeks, you will receive an email guiding you through a step to becoming more active. Don't worry, you don't have to belong to a gym for it to work for you!
The program restarts at the beginning of each quarter (July, October, January, and April). To sign-up for the Get Active program, click here. You will get your first email soon after the first of January.
A Non-Exercise Approach to Burning Calories
Which are you more likely to do (put a checkmark in the appropriate box):
| Few calories | More calories | |
|---|---|---|
| Use the remote | or | Get up and change the TV station... |
| Answer a nearby telephone, then talk while sitting | or | Get up and answer the telephone, then talk while standing... |
| Hire someone else to clean house | or | Vacuum and clean house... |
| Eat out or have food delivered | or | Cook your own meals... |
| Hire a landscape service | or | Mow the grass, rake leaves and work in the garden... |
| Drive to the automatic car wash | or | Wash the car... |
| Let the dog out the back door | or | Walk the dog... |
| Use e-mail or telephone | or | Walk to talk with a coworker... |
| Take the elevator or escalator | or | Take at least one flight of stairs... |
| Park in the closest available spot | or | Park further away... |
| Walk directly to where you need to go (or use the Internet or mail order) | or | Walk briskly around the mall or grocery store before shopping... |
| Sit in the car at drive-through windows | or | Walk into the bank, cleaners or restaurant... |
| Sit for long periods (30 minutes or more) | or | Regularly stand up, move around or go for a short walk... |
| Others sedentary activity: | Other opportunities for activity: | |
| __________________________________ | __________________________________ | |
| __________________________________ | __________________________________ | |
| __________________________________ | __________________________________ | |
| __________________________________ | __________________________________ |
If you checked boxes on the left side, you’re missing valuable opportunities to burn extra calories.
It is easy to turn your sedentary activities into ways to get moving. Choose two or three of the "few calories" activities you checked and make a plan to change them to the "more calories" column.
Review this list regularly to check your progress. Add new ideas as you discover them.
Making the switch to more daily physical activity can add up to thousands of extra calories burned each month — the more calories you burn in daily activities the easier it is to maintain a healthy weight or lose extra pounds!
