Employee Morale & Recreation Association June 3, 2013
EMRA is going to Orlando!
Save the date! EMRA is going to have an event in Orlando on Friday September 20th until Monday September 23rd. We will have early morning classes and panels so that we can enjoy our days in sunny Orlando. There are lots of great new things happening at EMRA. Come and enjoy a weekend of networking with your fellow employee service organizations. The invitation is for all the service providers in our organizations too.
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Westgate Lakes Resort and Spa is an ideal locale for a remarkable vacation getaway. The Resort is less than 2 miles from Universal Studios, SeaWorld, Orlando Convention Center and International Drive. Walt Disney World is only 5 miles away. In addition, shopping and dining options are within walking distance of the resort. Onsite food and beverage outlets such as Smokehouse Grill, Sids Deli, Pizza pickup/delivery, The Marketplace and the main pool bar are also available to guests staying at the resort.
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Adult Fitness Test
The President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition
Why take a fitness test?
If your response is, “Fit for what?” you are asking the right question. Physical fitness means different things to different people.
There are two types of fitness:
Performance-related fitness is linked to athletic performance (for example: a 50-yard dash time or the ability to maneuver around obstacles quickly) and is linked to speed, reaction time, and coordination.
Health-related fitness is linked to fitness components that may lower risks such as high blood pressure, diabetes, or low back pain. Health-related physical fitness includes the following components:
- Aerobic fitness – ability of the heart and lungs to deliver blood to muscles,
- Muscular strength and endurance – enough to do normal activities easily and protect the low back,
- Flexibility - ability to move your many joints through their proper range of motion, and
- Body composition - not too much body fat, especially around the waist.
The activities featured on this adult fitness test are provided as a way for you to get an estimate of your level of aerobic fitness, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility and your body composition. The results on each test provide you with a measure from which you can track your progress in each area as you become more physically active.
Am I healthy enough for testing?
Use the Pre-participation Screening Questionnaire provided by the American Heart Association and the American College of Sports Medicine to figure out if you are at high or low risk for cardiovascular events during exercise testing. By completing this questionnaire you can decide if it is safe to take these tests or if you should take additional steps prior to completing the test. Use the following link to find out if you are healthy enough for testing:
www.adultfitnesstest.org/riskQuestionaire.aspx
Is the test right for me?
The adult fitness test is for people aged 18 and older who are in good health.
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Travel Packing Tips
The 3 Major Catastrophic Mistakes That Any Traveler Should Avoid By Alec Chan (Author of “How To Travel For Cheap”)
Going to that special vacation is always great time for fun. However without the proper planning and preparation, it can virtually spoil the fun in your trip. Therefore by following the below travel packing tips this will help you to avoid the three major travel mistakes that people make and help to make your trip stress free.
1.) Avoid not making a list of your items
A common mistake that most people make is that they do not make a list of all the items that they are going to be bringing to their trip. Having this list is important as it helps you to prioritize your items accordingly to ensure you remember to bring the important items. Also it acts as a checklist, so that you can refer back to it to ensure you have all your items accounted for during your travels. This is a good way to make sure nothing goes missing.
2.) Avoid having important loose items scattered everywhere in your bag
Having important items scattered everywhere in your bag such as cash, credit cards, medicine, and documents will cause unwanted confusion and disorganization when you want to search for those items throughout your baggage. A good system to use is to classify each important item and store them separately into plastic zip lock bags. For example, you put all the cash into one zip lock bag, all the credit cards into another zip lock bag, and so on and so forth. This way, it will be much easier for you to retrieve the needed items from your luggage, by quickly pulling out the desired zip lock bag that contains the items you are searching for.
3.) Avoid keeping all your valuables in the same place
A common mistake that people make is to put all their valuables, including, electronic devices, money and passports, into one single bag. By doing this, it is like putting all "your eggs in one basket". If that single bag ever goes missing, or gets stolen, then all your valuables will go missing in one single shot. Therefore separate certain items into different places, such as putting your money in your wallet or zip pockets, the electronic devices in one of your hand carry bags, and your passport in your own handbag or purse. This will protect you from missing everything at once.
By following these three important travel packing tips, it will help you to avoid the common critical mistakes people make when packing for their trip.
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· Increase productivity and participation in other employee programs
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Fitness Can Be Fun…
By Landon Nascimento
To build stronger abdominal muscles, don't overdo it. You don't want to do abdominal exercises every day of the week. Just like the other muscles in your body, your abs need to rest between workouts. Do your abdominal workout, just two or three days a week for the best results.A great fitness tip is to do sit-ups. Even though many people claim that sit-ups are not effective, they are actually very effective. They give you a bigger range of motion, which strengthens the abs. However, you should never do sit-ups with your feet anchored because you could hurt your lower back.
When you are concentrating your fitness goals onto your abs, remember they need to rest. You will not do them any favors with daily workouts. You should limit your ab training to three days a week. You should never do more than four days of ab training in a week.
Give different muscle groups a break. Working the same group of muscles, such as your abs, can become counterproductive if you don't give them some downtime to recover. Design your workout as a circuit of training that focuses on alternate areas of your body each day. This allows more recovery time and keeps your workouts more interesting.
Try to treat your abdominal muscles like real muscles. If you ignore the pain of being sore and continue to push your fitness routine, you can end up injuring yourself just as well as you might injure a sore bicep. Taking periodic rest periods between working them out will allow your abs to heal before the next workout.
Don't just focus on your ab muscles when working out, make sure to add lower back sets to each set of ab exercises you do too. If you just focus only on your abs in your routine, you could be developing poor posture or you could start experiencing lower back pain.
Work out your abs without doing crunches. That's right, all you have to do is to take a deep breath and on the exhale, simply squeeze your belly to your spine and hold it for about 10 seconds. You'll be working your transversus abdominis muscle, which lays behind more prominent abdominal muscles but can flatten your stomach noticeably.
Control your breathing! For fitness enthusiasts who are working on their abs, exhale as hard as you can - at the top position - when you are performing crunches or sit-ups. This pushes your abdominal muscles to work even harder, which should give you better results in not time!
As you can see from the tips in this article, there are several things you can do right now to get going with a fitness plan that is right for you. These tips will help you realize your fitness goal before you know it. Pick one or two tips and start today.
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