Waco Heart Walk & T-shirt

Do you want to live a longer and healthier life? Do you want to help others do the same? Join the McLennan Community College Heart Walk team in raising funds and awareness to help fight two of the deadliest diseases in America – heart disease and stroke. The Waco Heart Walk will take place on Saturday, November 21st at McLane Stadium. Special events will start at 8am and the walk will begin at 9am. There are so many tools to help you raise funds and get excited about making healthy living a priority in our community. Here’s what happens with the funds that WE raise:
• We put up-to-the-minute research into doctors’ hands to help them save lives by preventing and treating heart disease. 
• We support groundbreaking pediatric heart and stroke research to help more than 35,000 babies born with heart disease each year. 
• We help get lifesaving information to those who need it most, from how to recognize the signs of heart attack to making healthy eating choices. 

Click here to join our team today (or copy and paste the link below into your web browser)!

http://heartwalk.kintera.org/faf/search/searchTeamPart.asp?ievent=1127193&lis=1&kntae1127193=B5D44795F0BD44B68363E3711603503F&team=6513129&tlteam=6529851 

When you’ve registered, email Gale Kissinger (gkissinger@mclennan.edu) with your t-shirt size. All MCC Heart Walk participants will get an MCC Kilt t-shirt. (If you’ve received the Kilt t-shirt for a previous walk this semester you will not get a second shirt.)

Resistance Bands and Total-Body Weight-Machine Circuit

In talking with our Healthy Highlanders about barriers to exercise, a few common responses emerged- lack of time, equipment, “athletic ability”, experience or knowledge. So today I want to share a resistance band workout with you. Attached you will find a pdf with a total body workout using a resistance band/tubing. There are pictures and instructions for each exercise.  Working with resistance bands provides an inexpensive and portable way to get a full-body strength-training workout at home or on the road. You can purchase resistance bands with different levels of resistance at Walmart (as low as $5), Academy (as low as $9), and other sporting goods stores. We also have resistance bands in the Fitness Room (M/WF 119) that you can use to try out these exercises. For more exercises you can do with resistance bands, visit http://www.acefitness.org/acefit/fitness-fact-article/237/resistance-tubing-workout/ or http://www.shape.com/topics/resistance-band-exercises.

Another option for resistance training (which is recommended 2 times per week for all major muscle groups) is the total-body weight-machine circuit set up in the Fitness Room (M/WF 119) on our campus. You can request the full details of the circuit by emailing kdrake@mclennan.edu or ask at the sign-in desk in the Fitness Room.  

Don't miss an opportunity to make yourself better today than you were yesterday. Let me know how I can help you reach your wellness goals!