{"id":1572,"date":"2021-10-15T13:52:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T20:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2021-10-15T13:52:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T20:52:22","slug":"october-15-employee-fitness-challenge-friday-high-five-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/2021\/10\/15\/october-15-employee-fitness-challenge-friday-high-five-message\/","title":{"rendered":"October 15 &#8211; Employee Fitness Challenge Friday High Five Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy F<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1545 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/files\/2021\/09\/High-Five-Friday-300x288.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/files\/2021\/09\/High-Five-Friday-300x288.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/files\/2021\/09\/High-Five-Friday.png 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>riday everyone. It doesn\u2019t look like we are going to have a very good opportunity to get outside much this weekend with all the rain that is forecasted, but hopefully some of you are like me and don\u2019t really mind digging out your rain gear and getting out for some fresh air, regardless of the weather! A forest bath really is quite amazing in the rain \u2013 the sounds and the smells are very therapeutic. Give it a try.<\/p>\n<p>It was a big week of prizes! Congratulations to <strong>Lisa Morry<\/strong> who won this week\u2019s progress report submission prize of a $25 gift card to Indigo-Chapters.<\/p>\n<p>Our <strong>Walk to Harrison<\/strong> challenge concluded on October 10 so thank you to the 74 of you that participated! Four runner-up prizes of $50 gift cards to Sport Chek were won by <strong>Debbie Jobb, Denise Tuchscherer, Fiona Ives, and Melania Popescu<\/strong> and the big grand prize winner of a night\u2019s accommodation at the Harrison Hot Springs hotel was <strong>Suki Grewal.<\/strong> \u00a0Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to everyone that participated.<\/p>\n<p>Keep tracking those kilometres as you walk all the way to <strong>Whistler<\/strong>! You be reporting your results on the November 1 progress report.<\/p>\n<p>How is <strong>Squatober<\/strong> going? I feel like it is the ultimate definition of the word \u201cchallenge\u201d! Yikes! It\u2019s not been an easy one, but I still hope many of you are persevering and doing the best you can each day. This exercise is so good for you and should be something you aspire to do on a daily basis! You will report your results for this challenge on the November 1 progress report as well.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>BioDiet<\/strong> program is going great. We\u2019re into week 4 and there seems to be lots of excitement and interest from the 47 participants. \u00a0This is the first week that we are \u201cfull-on\u201d and I\u2019m doing great (even if we are only \u00bd way through the second day). Don\u2019t forget to send me your updates, questions, or even your favorite Keto recipes to share.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Calling all bike lovers<\/strong>! We\u2019ve scheduled two bike rides around the Vedder Park Rotary Loop Trail in Chilliwack for the afternoons of October 16 and October 30. Thank you Ana Adamik for taking the lead! Several of you have emailed me to have your name added the list, but if anyone else would like to be included, let me know and I can send you all the details and connect you with Ana.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IMPORTANT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Due to low registration, we had to cancel the October 14 <strong>DanceFit classes with Susan Francis<\/strong>. We do have another one scheduled for October 28 so hopefully we\u2019ll be able to run it. Some of you like in-person classes, other like Zoom classes, and we all seem to have a preferred time so it\u2019s always a challenge to please everyone but we\u2019ll keep trying! If you want to register for the October 28 class, email me or <a href=\"mailto:Kathryn.wingerak@ufv.ca\">wingerak@ufv.ca<\/a> to save your spot!<\/li>\n<li>We are hopeful that we\u2019ll get enough interest to run the Lunch &amp; Learn <strong>Meditation series with Christine Slavik<\/strong> \u2013 5 zoom sessions on Tuesdays from Oct 19 \u2013 Nov 16 (see attachment above for description and registration details), but so far we only have a few registered. Many of you requested more information and training on this topic so please email me or <a href=\"mailto:Kathryn.wingerak@ufv.ca\">wingerak@ufv.ca<\/a> so we can send you the zoom links to the sessions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Information on all of our events and activities can be found on the Fitness Challenge webpage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/hr\/health-well-being\/fitness-challenge\/\">https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/hr\/health-well-being\/fitness-challenge\/<\/a> so check it our regularly so you don\u2019t miss anything!<\/p>\n<p>Have a great weekend everyone and I look forward to connecting with you all again next week!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday everyone. It doesn\u2019t look like we are going to have a very good opportunity to get outside much this weekend with all the rain that is forecasted, but hopefully some of you are like me and don\u2019t really mind digging out your rain gear and getting out for some fresh air, regardless of &#8230; <a title=\"October 15 &#8211; Employee Fitness Challenge Friday High Five Message\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/2021\/10\/15\/october-15-employee-fitness-challenge-friday-high-five-message\/\" aria-label=\"More on October 15 &#8211; Employee Fitness Challenge Friday High Five Message\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":1545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,4,10,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employee-stories","category-events","category-featured","category-fitness-challenge","category-information-and-resources","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}