NCPAD’s 14-Week Plan to a Healthier You!

February is Healthy Heart Month and for the first time ever, you can sign up for NCPAD’s 14-Week Plan to a Healthier You!

For Individuals with Disabilities

Individuals will receive weekly tips from NCPAD’s Virtual Trainer that will help keep you motivated to stay on track for your health and fitness goals for 2009.

You will gain exclusive access to our physical activity and nutrition experts who can provide personalized guidance to you during this 14-week program.

Weekly tips will include information on topics such as nutrition, workout ideas, fitness equipment, weather, motivation tools, written and video resources, and more. You will also receive forms that will allow you to log your progress as well as ideas for rewarding yourself when you meet your goals.

The program officially started on Saturday, February 14, so fine-tune those goals, sign up and get ready to meet your trainers!

To sign up, please call us at (800) 900-8086.

Organizations, Programs, and Facilities

If you work for an organization and would like to facilitate a group of individuals with disabilities, let us help support you and your 14-Week Healthy Team! In the event that individuals in your organization do not have individual or personal Internet access, this is the perfect way for you to serve as the liaison. You (as well as your individual team members) will receive tips the weekend prior so you have plenty of time to fine-tune or alter them if necessary, based on your team members’ needs.

Each team of people with disabilities, chronic conditions, and activity limitations will receive a free poster to hang in a highly visible area in your facility and handouts to distribute to your participants. The poster and handouts make up a toolkit that is part of an awareness campaign called Exercise is for Everybody! Do you get enough?. The purpose of this campaign is to promote healthy lifestyles among people with disabilities. The toolkit materials will contain general exercise guidelines as well as a list of accessible exercise and fitness, sports, and recreation programs in your specific area.

Additionally, as team captain, you will receive a free gift from the NCPAD webshop to share with your team members during the 14-week program. Give us a call at (800) 900-8086 to find out which NCPAD product is best suited for your team.

If you would like to facilitate a group, we will need the following information:

• Team captain name:
• Job title:
• Organization:
• Organization street address:
• City, state:
• Zip code:
• What type of organization is this?
• Phone:
• Email:
• Organization website:
• Other questions:
  1. How many people will be on the team?
  2. Team member names & email addresses (or mailing address if no Internet access)
  3. Age range of team members
  4. Type of disabilities/chronic conditions
  5. Will the team be exercising together or individually? Where?

For more information on receiving handouts with a personalized programs listing, please contact Melissa at mmccal1@uic.edu.

You can also download general exercise handouts and other 14-Week related documents at http://www.ncpad.org/14weeks/.

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Please send any questions or comments to Melissa McCall at mmccal1@uic.edu.

This fact sheet was last updated on 03-02-2009.

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