Your Wellness Toolkit: GUWellness: Mind, Body, Soul

There are many ways to bring wellness to the workplace.  Here are a few.  Scroll through, or jump ahead using the shortcuts listed in the bullets below.  Have an idea you'd like to share?  Email it wellness@georgetown.edu.

• Resistance Band Basics, a refresher
• Simple Steps to Wellness
• Walking Routes Around Campus
• Declaring Your Intentions
• The Biggest Loser Challenge
• Denim Day

Simple Steps to Wellness

Need some help getting started on your wellness journey?  Here are some suggestions from the National Wellness Institute. You'll be surprised by how just a few simple steps can bring you much closer to overall wellness.  Ready to take the first step?  Click on one of the topics below... 

11 Tips to Boost Your Brain

Move that Body!

Revamp Your Spirit

20/20:  March is Save Your Vision Month 

 

Walking Routes Around Campus

Looking to take a lunch time stroll?  Here are a few walking routes from Healy Gates.  Have a route you'd like to share?  Send it to wellness@georgetown.edu.  You can also create and save your own walking routes through Start!, a free, online physical activity and nutrition trakcing tool offered through the American Heart Association.

1.0 miles: Start at Healy Gates.  Follow "O" Street to Wisconsin Avenue, turn right.  Turn right on "N" Street, turn right at 37th Street.  Go one block to return to Healy Gates.

1.5 miles:  Start at Healy Gates, follow "O" Street to 35th Street, turn left.  Follow 35th Street to Reservoir Road, turn right.  Continue to Wisconsin Avenue, turn right.  Follow Wisconsin Avenue to "O" Street, turn right.  Return to Healy Gates.

2.6 miles:  Start at Healy Gates, follow "O" Street to 35th Street, turn left.  Take 35th Street to Wisconsin Avenue, continue up Wisconsin Avenue to Whole Foods.  Return via Wisconsin Avenue to "O" Street, turn right.  Return to Healy Gates.

How Fast Are You Walking?

Daily Steps: If you are just tracking your daily steps with a pedometer as you go about your job or putter around the house, you can use 2 miles per hour or 2.5 miles per hour.
Easy Health Walk: If you take an easy walk around the neighborhood or park, able to keep up a full conversation, use 3 miles per hour as a rule of thumb.
Moderate to Brisk Walk: If you are walking at a determined to swift pace and breathing noticeably, use 4 miles per hour.
Fast Walking: Fast walkers usually know their speed or have measured it. Racewalkers can walk 5-6 miles per hour or even faster.

Declare Your Wellness Intentions for 2009

Experts say that it's important that goals (or resolutions, if you prefer) are realistic, specific and actionable; it's equally important to take them out of your head and committ them to paper.  GUWellness would like to support you in declaring your wellness intentions for 2009 by encouraging you to write them down. 

Want to hold yourself accountable and see how you're progressing mid-way through the year?  Enclose your goals in a sealed self-addressed envelope (your campus address) and send to:  GUWellness, G-18 Healy Hall.  In June we'll send your goals back to you so you can see how you're doing.  Don't worry...we won't peek.  You'll be the only one to know how you're progressing.

Need some help crafting your goals?  Check out these resources.

 The Biggest Loser Challenge

Our colleagues in University Information Systems (UIS) have been challenging themselves to lose big.  Take a look at the fun challenge they've created and duplicate it in your department. 

 Raising Awareness - Denim Day

Build camraderie, support a great cause and enjoy "denim day."  The Center for Intercultural Education and Development, raised over $100 for breast cancer research with this fun awareness event.  Learn more about Lee National Denim Day.