Initiatives and Programs:

Are You Ready for the Challenge to "Stay in the Game"?

The 6th Annual Fall Fitness "Charity" Challenge Program sponsored by Facilities and Operation is an excellent opportunity to "Stay in the Game"!!

Business and Finance Staff are invited to participate as well! The F & O Fall Fitness & Charity Challenge Program is an exciting and fun-filled program designed to help you sustain or even begin to incorporate exercise (emphasizing the team approach) into your daily as well as weekly schedules!

This year's charity of choice is the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan. All proceeds will benefit the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan.

Consider these facts:

• 1 in 9 Michigan adults have chronic kidney disease (CKD) but most don't know it.
• Chronic Kidney Disease is approaching epidemic proportions. It is growing at a rate of 6% per year in Michigan.
• The most common causes of Chronic Kidney Disease are diabetes (42%) and high blood pressure (30%).
• Last year (2005), Michigan had 11,647 people on dialysis and 5,209 people with a kidney transplant.

Source: www.nkfm.org

The 6th Annual Fall Fitness "Charity" Challenge is a 6-week program promoting physical activity and employee wellness. The program begins Tuesday, November 14, 2006 and ends Tuesday, January 2, 2007.

Employees form teams and select a team captain. Each team participant donates ten dollars ($10) and submits it to their team captain. Checks or money orders are to be made payable to the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan.

Waiver of Liability forms must be signed and submitted to your team captains by Tuesday, November 14, 2006. The team captain will be responsible for collecting all liability forms.

Team participants will record the number of minutes using log sheets of your physical activity each week. Logs are to be submitted to your team captain who will keep a team log.

Definition of exercise:

• 20 minutes or more continuous minutes of acceptable physical activity.
• Only exercise minutes performed NOT in conjunction with one's job duties count towards the 2006 Fall Fitness Charity Challenge initiative.

Aggregate team results (i.e., average weekly minutes for each team) will be posted weekly via mass email.

Each team participant will receive a 2006 Fall Fitness Charity Challenge incentive prize at the end of the program. The incentive prize will be announced the week of November 6th (next week)!

A Post-event reception will be held for the Top Three Winning Teams! (See attached rules for more details.)

The first place team will receive a catered luncheon, chair massages and of course the 1st place trophy with each team member's name engraved on the trophy!

Please spread the word to your colleagues about this exciting exercise program! Here you will find a waiver form for Fall Fitness. See the Rules for 2006 Fall Fitness Charity. Registration is in process! Enter your team today!

For more information or questions, please contact Greg Lambert at 647-4796 or email Greg Lambert (get address) (38.103.63.61). Let's Stay in the Game!