The CAMROSE BOOSTER January 24, 2012
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Augustana Fitness Centre supports Hawaii trek Submitted by Colleen Lindholm, Camrose Primary Care Network
It’s the 90 day 90 dollar Augustana Fitness Centre HOLOHOLO Membership! “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” Henry Ford In conjunction with the PCN HOLOHOLO Virtual Trek, and to help motivate you to increase your physical activity, the Augustana Fitness Centre is o ffering a s pecial membership rate of $90 for 90 days for those participating in the PCN Virtual Trek*. This membership includes access, not only to the Fitness Centre, but also to the Encana Walking Track and lane swimming at the Camrose Aquatic Centre. Just bring in your proof of registration between Feb. 1 to 8 to take advantage of this phenomenal deal. Offer valid on new memberships only and cannot be added to current memberships. The PCN and the Fitness Centre worked together at developing a c reative and innovative way to showcase the Fitness Center’s support of the PCN’s Virtual Trek Campaign. “This unique and generous promotion really supports the Virtual Trek Program and what we are trying to achieve with the promotion of active living. We are so pleased to work in collaboration with the Augustana Fitness Centre and appreciate their partnership as our virtual trek participants HOLOHOLO around Hawaii,” said PCN executive director, Stacey Strilchuk. “The Augustana Fitness Centre is honored to partner with the
Murray Green, Camrose Booster Fitness Centre Coordinator, Jalene Johnsen, left, and Deanna Roper, Fitness Centre Supervisor, University of Alberta, Augustana Campus are offering 90 days of fitness membership for $90 to celebrate the trek around Hawaii with PCN's Colleen Lindholm.
Camrose PCN to help promote wellness in our community. The PCN Virtual Trek is a p ractical and realistic challenge that motivates a better quality of life through increased fitness and most importantly it is f un for all ages and abilities,” said Deanna Roper, Fitness Centre Supervisor, and Jalene Johnsen, Fitness Centre Coordina-
tor, University of Alberta, Augustana Campus. The PCN HOLOHOLO Hawaii Virtual Trek is an on-line program which keeps track of your physical fitness activities (walking, running, swimming, basketball, cycling, etc.), turns them into steps, and then “virtually” takes you around the Hawaiian Islands.
Participating is easy and totally free and you can win great prizes along the way! The grand prize is a o neyear fitness membership, courtesy of the Augustana Fitness Centre! To register for the trek, visit www.camrosepcn.com and register by clicking on the HOLOHOLO link. (If you are joining as a team, please call 780-608-4940 for more
information). Start keeping track of your fitness activities and log onto www.camrosepcn.com regularly to enter your steps! For more information on the 90 day 90 dollar Augustana Fitness Centre Membership, phone 780-679-1576. For more information on the PCN 2012 Virtual Trek, visit www.camrosepcn. com or call 780-608-4927.
Enjoy a healthy virtual walk around the beautiful islands Submitted by Colleen Lindholm, Camrose Primary Care Network
Are you ready to HOLOHOLO? (HOLOHOLO = to walk or travel for fun) The Camrose PCN has a fun way for you to work towards a healthier you. And while the PCN wishes it could send you all to a
warm tropical climate, we think we have come up with the next best thing. The 2012 HOLOHOLO Hawaii Virtual Trek, starts on February 1st and runs until April 30th – a nd the PCN wants you to join us in this fun and unique fitness challenge. You can join
individually, or join together with some friends, family or your coworkers as a team! This is a challenge for all ages! The 2012 PCN HOLOHOLO Hawaii Virtual Trek is a 9 0-day on-line program which keeps track of your physical fitness activities (walking, running, swimming,
Murray Green, Camrose Booster Camrose Primary Care Network staff, from left to right, Colleen McKinstry, Michelle Bowman, Melissa Fontaine and Colleen Lindholm are ready to make the trek around the Hawaiian Islands.
basketball, cycling, etc.), and then turns them into steps, which then “virtually” takes you around the Hawaiian Islands. Pa rticipating is easy and totally free and you can win great prizes along the way! The grand prize is a one-year fitness membership courtesy of the Augustana Fitness Centre! for your mental well-being and overall health. The PCN ran the “Camrose Steps Out” virtual trek in 2010-11 with great success, with over 500 people registering in the program – logging over 415 million steps! Here’s how you can get started for the 2012 HOLOHOLO: visit www.camrosepcn.com and register by clicking on the HOLOHOLO link. (If you are joining as a team, please call 780-608-4940 for more information). Start keeping track of your fitness activities and log onto www.camrosepcn.com regularly to enter your steps! The program will also calculate other activities such as swimming, biking, basketball into steps so a ll fitness activities can count towards your steps. The more steps you take, the more times around the Hawaiian Islands you will travel and the closer you get to the grand prize of the one-year fitness membership and a healthier you. Once you have registered, you can come into the PCN office at the Edgeworth Centre to get a free PCN wrist band. The first 200 registered participants receive a free PCN pedometer used to count daily number of steps and measure activity levels. (they can be picked up at the PCN office at the Edgeworth Centre). The Hawaiian Trek is 1,000
The intention of the virtual trek is to keep people motivated and active with their fitness activities, adding something fun and unique to work towards. It’s important to keep up an active lifestyle throughout the winter months! Keeping active not only keeps you physically fit, it’s good km, so it is 1,320,000 steps in total. At ab out 14,000 steps per day you can make it around the entire islands in 90 days. There will be prizes awarded for each time someone makes it around the islands! Watch for the award to pop up on the screen to claim your prize. The more times you make it around, the more prizes you’ll earn. A key partner is t he Augustana Fitness Centre. It is playing a substantial role to the success of the trek this year with providing the grand prize of a one-year membership to the individual who logs the most steps. On February 1, sign up for the PCN Virtual Trek, and head on over to get your HOLOHOLO membership at the Augustana Fitness Centre. Kicking off the PCN 2012 HOLOHOLO Virtual Trek will be an event at the Edgeworth Centre at noon, Wednesday, February 1, upstairs at the running track. We invite you to come and enjoy some healthy refreshments, take a couple laps around the track with us, win great prizes and HOLOHOLO. But first, be sure to register at www.camrosepcn.com. For more information, please call the PCN at 780-608-4927.