by Regional Nursing Solutions
24. May 2007 14:29
RNS Admin team walk around the world….
The RNS admin team are taking positive steps in their health and fitness at work. They have joined many thousands from around the world in a very different and very fun health and fitness initiative known as The Global Corporate Challenge.
The challenge was designed to assist in breaking the potentially dangerous effects that our sedentary working lives today can sometimes entail. The initiative helps participants get fit and healthy AND travel the globe virtually….so how does it work?
Corporate teams of 7 participants each register from around the world including two teams of 7 from our own RNS Admin team. Each participant receives a pedometer and for 125 days records how many steps they take during the day. Every day they enter their tally which is converted into km’s for their team’s virtual tour of the globe – the more active the further around the world you go.
Globally there are over 1 billion overweight adults, with at least 300 million of these being obese.
(Statistics from the World Health Organisations, obesity and overweight fact sheet.) GCC encourage participants to achieve at least 10000 steps a day – a benchmark figure that health care professionals recommend you achieve to positively improve your health including reducing your risk of diabetes, reduction in cholesterol and lower blood pressure.
Corporates around the world are getting involved including Palmolive.
The GCC starts on 24th May and ends on 25th September. Wish our team luck in their virtual walk around the world and we’ll keep you posted on their progress.
