Earlier today I sent the following email to all hands about the DHS Fitness Challenge:
To the Men and Women of the U.S. Coast Guard,
May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. To encourage a “healthy” competition between components, DHS has initiated a three-month fitness challenge for all DHS employees. Personal fitness programs help prevent obesity, improve employee resilience and productivity, improve morale, help to reduce health care costs, and prevent chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, strokes, and other preventable illnesses.
Please join me in helping the Coast Guard meet this DHS challenge; together we can become more physically fit, healthy, motivated, productive, and resilient. Track your fitness activities using the President’s Challenge website at: www.presidentschallenge.org from May 1 through July 31, 2010. You can choose more than 100 different types of physical activities that fit their lifestyles. The Active Lifestyle program is available for those seeking to initiate or improve their fitness regimen, while the President's Champions program is for already active individuals to seek a new fitness challenge.
At the end of the competition, DHS will recognize the component with the highest percentage of employees who have pledged to join the President’s Challenge and the most points (per each person) accumulated between May 1 and July 31, 2010.
Getting started is easy:
Log in at: www.presidentschallenge.org
Click on the left hand group that best describes you
Click on "Sign me up!" [bottom, middle of page]
Enter your 'user name' and 'password' and ensure to fill in the Coast Guard Group ID number = 53106
Our Group Member/ID Name = Coast Guard.
Fill in the rest of the form and get started logging your activities. You can enter activities that they have tracked since May 1, 2010 until July 31, 2010. If you are already tracking your fitness activities using the President’s Challenge website, please add yourself to the Coast Guard group (53106).
Semper Paratus,
VADM David Pekoske
