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magidEvery year $Employer has run a voluntary exercise program in the late winter, where people form teams to cheer each other on to make weekly goals (minutes of movement, not intensity, so open to a fairly wide range of folks). After last year’s program, there was an announcement that it had been cancelled, presumably as part of the cost-saving measures put in place to mitigate the deficit by the sudden change in tax rate on money from endowments. I was a little sad, but as a wholly non-essential program, it made sense.
This fall, there was an announcement that it would be happening again this year, as part of a different department’s programming, and as an 8- rather than 12-week program.
It’s still motivation to get moving during a time of year it’s easy to cocoon, so I signed up. In the old program, there were weekly goals of however many minutes. In the current one, there’s also a weekly goal, but when I looked at it, I was overwhelmed: the 8th week had over 8000 ‘wellable’ points, with a maximum of 1500/day (for scale: 1 mile walked = 100 points). What?! I started freaking out just a bit, trying to figure out how in the last week I’d manage that many points. Then I was chatting with the leader of the tunnel walk I went on Thursday, and she said that she thought it was cumulative, not weekly, goals. Which made a lot more sense, when I thought about it.
So I’m trying to work in more exercise, but not go so overboard that I injure myself or something.
This fall, there was an announcement that it would be happening again this year, as part of a different department’s programming, and as an 8- rather than 12-week program.
It’s still motivation to get moving during a time of year it’s easy to cocoon, so I signed up. In the old program, there were weekly goals of however many minutes. In the current one, there’s also a weekly goal, but when I looked at it, I was overwhelmed: the 8th week had over 8000 ‘wellable’ points, with a maximum of 1500/day (for scale: 1 mile walked = 100 points). What?! I started freaking out just a bit, trying to figure out how in the last week I’d manage that many points. Then I was chatting with the leader of the tunnel walk I went on Thursday, and she said that she thought it was cumulative, not weekly, goals. Which made a lot more sense, when I thought about it.
So I’m trying to work in more exercise, but not go so overboard that I injure myself or something.