Lets Move South Dakota Discovery Center!: January 2012

Monday, January 30, 2012

President's Challenge Site Back Up

If you tried to log into the President's Challenge website before Jan. 24, you would have noticed that it had been shut down due to being compromised by hackers.

Happily the site is back up and you can start logging your fitness information again.

Today is the perfect day to commit and recommit to your fitness goals. You can earn a Presidential Active Lifestyle Award Plus by spring if you start recording your workouts and healthy eating choices this week. Having a goal will make the last dreary days of winter fly by and you will be ready for biking, running, gardening and spring fun!

Congratulations to our latest PALA winners! Well done on working out over the holidays!

Dawson Lewis

Sarah Easter

Monday, January 2, 2012

Challenge Yourself Fit in 2012!

A New Year is a great time to recommit to fitness. Refresh your fitness goals with the President's Challenge this winter. If you haven't already, you can earn a PALA + or earn a medal as a Presidential Champion. If you are already working towards these goals, you can challenge yourself to try new activities, particularly ones that strengthen muscles and bones.

Need a little more motivation to get fit? Join us on Martin Luther King Day afternoon from 1PM-5PM for our family fitness event for a free afternoon at the SD Discovery Center. We will be premiering our "Let's Move South Dakota" exhibit with fun hands-on stations for family fitness. You can start 2012 strong with fun family fitness activities. Make a commercial (or coffee) break exercise motivator. See why water is the "sweetest" drink for your health. Join us at our cooking class to prepare a delicious soup recipe from the Emmy award winning Food Revolution television show.

Help us get the word out about this event by printing out the poster and posting at your workplace or church. You can also pass it out to friends. We'll see you Monday Jan 16!

Welcome!

The SD Discovery Center invites you to join us in being fit and healthy by participating in the President's Challenge.

What's the President's Challenge, you ask? It's a great way for you to be active and have fun. You can choose from two free challenges that will help you get on a healthy track for an opportunity to earn awards:

• The Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA) challenge, which helps people make physical activity and healthy eating a part of their everyday lives

• Presidential Champions, which challenges you to be more active more often—the more active you are, the more points you'll earn toward our awards

Join this 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: 98336

Group Name: Let's Move SD Discovery Center

Joining this group makes you eligible to be part of our Wall of Winners a collage of people who have earned a Presidential Active Lifestyle Award or President's Challenge Medal.