Here's the scenario:
On a Monday afternoon, someone walks up to the bulletin board in the Fitness Center and checks out the latest points standings in "BHL-U". In a matter of seconds they remark, "Gosh, how on earth did so-and-so get so many points!?!?"
Well, I knew the answer and just did a little math to back it up....
One reason those people top the standings: They log into the Web-Portal regularly!!
Here are the stats:
People in the Top Ten have logged in an average of 37 times since we went live with the system.
Folks in the Top Twenty have logged in an average of 23 times.
Those in the Top Thirty have logged in an average of 17 times.
See the trend? Is it a coincidence? I don't think so.
We're just a couple weeks away from the first round of people earning their initial incentive awards. If you don't want to lag too far behind - get to the portal and check it out, log your activity, and get active!!
Ciao,
the ProMotion Fitness Team
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
We're turning the corner....
We enter the glorious month of March with glimmers of hope for warmer weather to come. At BHL University we do not know of March being of madness, lions or lambs. We simply sense that soon it will be time to take our fitness outdoors!
Is your Winter Fitness prepared to greet the Spring?
Have you developed your strength to support your summer sports? Functionally trained your back and shoulders to sustain Spring Cleaning? Prepared your cardiovascular system for long walks and hikes and bike rides?
If you have not gotten around to it, now is the time!
In March, BHL University brings you even more programs to weave exercise into a busy schedule. Got 10 minutes? Try Ab Lab, Brazilian Butts, or Cwik Cardio in the Oasis!
Need help with your workout or diet? See an on-site trainer in the fitness center, or send a request for us to meet you in the Oasis! It's all about you! And you being healthy best. How can we help?
Let us know please!
BHL-U We are Warriors in March.!
Best of Health to you,
Wendy Cooper and the ProMotion Fitness Team
Is your Winter Fitness prepared to greet the Spring?
Have you developed your strength to support your summer sports? Functionally trained your back and shoulders to sustain Spring Cleaning? Prepared your cardiovascular system for long walks and hikes and bike rides?
If you have not gotten around to it, now is the time!
In March, BHL University brings you even more programs to weave exercise into a busy schedule. Got 10 minutes? Try Ab Lab, Brazilian Butts, or Cwik Cardio in the Oasis!
Need help with your workout or diet? See an on-site trainer in the fitness center, or send a request for us to meet you in the Oasis! It's all about you! And you being healthy best. How can we help?
Let us know please!
BHL-U We are Warriors in March.!
Best of Health to you,
Wendy Cooper and the ProMotion Fitness Team
Friday, January 29, 2010
METABOLISM-101
WHAT IS METABOLISM AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
Well, one's metabolism is the rate at which your body burns calories while in a static or non-active mode. MOST of our calorie consumption, even for those of us who are active, comes about through the basic operation of bodily functions like breathing, circulating blood, keeping organs functioning, regulating body temperature, keeping our posture erect, etc.
When we exercise, we burn more calories. But these additional calories consumed (or burned) are a small percentage of what goes on in our bodies all day long.
So, it stands to reason that to help maintain healthy and optimal body weight, and help lose weight if/when we need to, we want to have a metabolism that is as high and as active as possible!
Imagine your metabolism is a "furnace" and the food that we eat (and the energy from stored food - i.e. fat) is fuel for that furnace. We want a furnace that burns as hot and as brightly as possible! We want that furnace STOKED UP and the "fire ROARING".
Here are the TOP FIVE WAYS to BOOST YOUR METABOLISM:
1. Eat Breakfast! After a night of "fasting", you need to prime the pump, stoke up the furnace, and re-awake your body into a fat-burning and calorie-burning mode.
2. Eat smaller, more frequent meals! Three big meals a day dumps huge amounts of fuel onto the furnace all at once. And what happens when you throw a bunch of wood on a fire? It smokes! We want this fire to have flames jumping HIGH, so we feed on the fuel, steadily, gradually, consistently throughout the day.
3. Consume some protein with every meal! This doesn't have to be a steak - whole grains, beans and legumes, especially soy, dairy and eggs also have protein. Fatty foods are like throwing a pile of green leaves on the fire. Simple carbs are throwing on really dry, brown, crunchy dead leaves on the fire. Protein is like feeding your fire split oak logs!
4. GET ACTIVE! Exercise and Move! Pumping the furnace with exercise helps it burn more fuel - and doing exercise that helps increase lean muscle mass (like strength training) changes your furnace into a small, slow burning economy model into a huge, roaring industrial model.
5. Drink plenty of water! This one isn't as intuitive, but is just as important as all the others when it comes to metabolism. Proper hydration levels help keep all of our organs, especially the kidneys, liver and pancreas doing what they are suppose to do. Without enough water, these organs struggle to keep up with processing of fats, sugars, etc. and bad things happen - the fire dims and fat gets stored.
This was the topic of our first "BHL-UNIVERSITY" class session at RCI. If you're an RCI employee and missed it, then you probably haven't registered for the latest incentive program and you NEED TO! Check your email, ask a friend at Vacation Plaza, or come see one of the ProMotion staff in the fitness center to learn how!
Well, one's metabolism is the rate at which your body burns calories while in a static or non-active mode. MOST of our calorie consumption, even for those of us who are active, comes about through the basic operation of bodily functions like breathing, circulating blood, keeping organs functioning, regulating body temperature, keeping our posture erect, etc.
When we exercise, we burn more calories. But these additional calories consumed (or burned) are a small percentage of what goes on in our bodies all day long.
So, it stands to reason that to help maintain healthy and optimal body weight, and help lose weight if/when we need to, we want to have a metabolism that is as high and as active as possible!
Imagine your metabolism is a "furnace" and the food that we eat (and the energy from stored food - i.e. fat) is fuel for that furnace. We want a furnace that burns as hot and as brightly as possible! We want that furnace STOKED UP and the "fire ROARING".
Here are the TOP FIVE WAYS to BOOST YOUR METABOLISM:
1. Eat Breakfast! After a night of "fasting", you need to prime the pump, stoke up the furnace, and re-awake your body into a fat-burning and calorie-burning mode.
2. Eat smaller, more frequent meals! Three big meals a day dumps huge amounts of fuel onto the furnace all at once. And what happens when you throw a bunch of wood on a fire? It smokes! We want this fire to have flames jumping HIGH, so we feed on the fuel, steadily, gradually, consistently throughout the day.
3. Consume some protein with every meal! This doesn't have to be a steak - whole grains, beans and legumes, especially soy, dairy and eggs also have protein. Fatty foods are like throwing a pile of green leaves on the fire. Simple carbs are throwing on really dry, brown, crunchy dead leaves on the fire. Protein is like feeding your fire split oak logs!
4. GET ACTIVE! Exercise and Move! Pumping the furnace with exercise helps it burn more fuel - and doing exercise that helps increase lean muscle mass (like strength training) changes your furnace into a small, slow burning economy model into a huge, roaring industrial model.
5. Drink plenty of water! This one isn't as intuitive, but is just as important as all the others when it comes to metabolism. Proper hydration levels help keep all of our organs, especially the kidneys, liver and pancreas doing what they are suppose to do. Without enough water, these organs struggle to keep up with processing of fats, sugars, etc. and bad things happen - the fire dims and fat gets stored.
This was the topic of our first "BHL-UNIVERSITY" class session at RCI. If you're an RCI employee and missed it, then you probably haven't registered for the latest incentive program and you NEED TO! Check your email, ask a friend at Vacation Plaza, or come see one of the ProMotion staff in the fitness center to learn how!
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Warriors of the Hilly 100 Way
Many of the 20 Fitness Warriors who pioneered Bloomington Indiana's "Hilly 100" bicycle ride did so for the first time ever. Decked out in jerseys provided by Klipsch Group and Powered by ProMotion Coaching of outdoor bike rides, velodrome workshops and year round spinning classes, this group was all style and all smiles!
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