Post a Comment →Play Longer - Presidential Active Lifestyle Award
The Presidential Active Lifestyle Award challenge will help you add physical activity to your life—and now, it will also help improve your eating habits. (That’s why it's called it PALA+.) Get active and eat better, and you’ll feel better, too. Plus, you’ll earn an award. Start the PALA+ challenge!- Physical activity. You need to be active 30 minutes a day, at least 5 days a week, for 6 out of 8 weeks.
- Healthy eating. Each week, you’ll also focus on a healthy eating goal. There are eight to choose from, and each week you will add a new goal while continuing with your previous goals. By the end of the six weeks, you’ll be giving your body more of the good stuff it needs.
- Physical activity. You need to be active 60 minutes a day, at least 5 days a week, for 6 out of 8 weeks.
- Healthy eating. Each week, you’ll also focus on a healthy eating goal. There are eight to choose from, and each week you will add a new goal while continuing with your previous goals. By the end of the six weeks, you’ll be giving your body more of the good stuff it needs.
- Commit to daily physical activity—and stick with it.
- Commit to making healthier food choices—one goal at a time.
- Set realistic goals to encourage fitness and healthy eating habits for a lifetime.
- Track your progress with our free personal activity log, which you can access online after you create an individual account, or on a paper log.
- Have fun! Yes, you need to be active every day, but participants can choose all kinds of activities to meet this goal—playing with the kids, gardening, walking, playing basketball, running, yoga, and more—all while fueling your body with nutritious foods.
Once you have enrolled, be sure to join the Silver Mountain Sports Club group, and we'll help you stay motivated. Here's what you need to do:
• If you already have a President's Challenge account, log in at http://www.presidentschallenge.org/ and look up our group in the My Challenge application using the group number below.
• If you don't have an account, create a free account at http://www.presidentschallenge.org/, choose which challenge you want to participate in, and look up our group in the My Challenge application using the group number below.
Group Number: 940459
Group Name: Silver Mountain Sports Club
Once you join this group, you will be able to:
• Log your activities and earn points that will count toward our group's total and will help you earn President's Challenge awards
• See how you're doing compared to other group members
• Interact with other members in our group forum
• Add a profile picture that will display in our group (or you can hide your information from other group members, if you prefer)
• Get even more motivated to be active and healthy!
Live Healthy - President’s Challenge Adult Fitness Test
- Aerobic fitness—the ability of your heart and lungs to deliver blood to muscles
- Muscular strength and endurance—whether you are strong enough to do normal activities easily and protect your lower back
- Flexibility—the ability to move your joints through their proper range of motion
- Body composition—whether you have too much body fat, especially around the waist
Live Healthy Recipe: Hot & Sour Soup with Shrimp and Rice Noodles
Quick Dinner! This one pot dish cooks in under 20 minutes for a meal that combines traditional Thai flavors with noodles,shrimp and vegetables. Grab a spoon and fork, because this soup is loaded with ingredients that will tempt your tastebuds with every bite.
Hot and Sour Soup with Shrimp and Rice Noodles
4 servings
Ingredients:
1 1/2 quarts chicken stock (6 cups)
1 juicy lime, well juiced
2T fish sauce
2T gluten free soy sauce
1 T brown sugar
1 inch long piece fresh ginger, shredded
3 cloves garlic, diced
1/2t black pepper
1/8-1/4 tsp crushed red pepper flakes, depending on your taste
1T corn starch mixed with 2T water
2 overflowing cups broccoli slaw
4 large green onion stalks OR 8 small, diced
1 lb raw, peeled deveined shrimp
8 ounces thin rice noodles
*Fill large bowl with boiling water, or microwaved hot water. Place rice noodles in the water and cover to let sit while soup is simmering.
*In a large soup pot, simmer chicken stock. Add ginger and garlic. Add lime juice, fish sauce, soy, sugar, black and crushed red pepper. Let simmer for 5 minutes.
*Mix corn starch paste and add to soup, stirring well.
*Add broccoli slaw. Simmer for 3 minutes. Add shrimp and simmer for 3 minutes.
*Stir in green onions
*Using tongs, pull rice noodles out of large bowl and separate into 4 soup bowls. Ladle soup on top.
Jill Molchan is a Personal Fitness Coach at Silver Mountain Sports Club & Spa.
Contact her at (435) 962-3010 or JillMolchan@gmail.com or visit goglutenfreegracefully.com
Play Longer - Bernie's Story
During our recent New Year, New You Calorie Burn Challenge, Bernie Stabins became an unlikely star at Silver Mountain Sports Club. While the challenge was to burn 12,500 or more calories over a 10 week period, Bernie took it on as way to show everyone that fitness isn't just for the young. At 81 years old, Bernie was the oldest participant and the one who not only had the highest total documented calorie count but single handedly burned more calories, earning more points than the lowest 17 competitors combined!
Six days week, for more than two hours a day, Bernie was in the Kimball club doing both cardio and weight training. His favorite piece of cardio equipment became the new Woodway Curve treadmill but he credited both Anna and Keri's spin classes for helping him achieve the highest calorie burn per hour. When asked, Bernie shared that consistency was the key to his success. "Just have an agenda and do it daily". His advice to anyone who hasn’t been working out regularly? “Make a commitment then get a trainer to learn a regime. Share your commitment with someone else so they can hold you accountable to it”.
Bernie shared his thoughts with the rest of the competitors when the challenge ended. Here is Bernie's story in his own words.
Hal La Lu Yah.
The NEW YEAR NEW YOU calorie contest is over>>>>>>>>>>>> Boy and am I happy...............................I came in 1st place recording a record !!!!!!! 197,087 points. The 2nd best competitor recorded 116,595 points, I was ahead of her by 80,492 points. The 3rd best competitor recorded 66,131 points, I was ahead of him by 130,956 points.
It was a wonderful experience for me. I lost 14 pounds. And I feel better now than I have in the past 10 years. The people at the gym were great; I also met some awesome people on the way. I'm going to continue to work out, I guess until I can't work out anymore.
Thanks for all your support.
Love you all.
Bernie. (Boompa)
You can see Bernie in action in the upcoming Park City Follies where he will be performing with other Silver Mountain Sports Club members and staff in the opening number.
