Getting Started!

Walking Challenge Orientation

How to get started! Recommendations from the CA Center for Physical Activity for how much physical activity you should get, based on your age. How Shape Up will support your team and how YOU can support your team! Ideas of things you can do with your team and ways to keep them motivated. Tips to get your team organized and active from the Mayo Clinic. Training guides for beginner and advanced walkers on the Active.com Walking Channel. An About.com guide to pedometers, updated January 2013.

Resources for Offline Members and Youth Teams

GROUP Activity Tracking Form

Form to track offline member activity. This is very useful for team leaders who are logging the miles for several members of their team. A printable form for OFFLINE TEAM MEMBERS (without regular computer access) to track activity. This can then be submitted to the Team Leader to enter online. Ideas of things you can do with your team and ways to keep them motivated. use this Powerpoint presentation to integrate the Walking Challenge into classroom lessons about CA geography, history, animals, and more. Please note that this document is a large file (3 megabytes)

General Health and Wellness Resources

Why it's important to be active every day and how to get the most from your activity. Author of Pedometer Walking, contributor to Walking Magazine, and host of PBS's America Walks Make sure to warm up before any kind of exercise Use MapMyRun.com to see how far you walked