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CEWW 2022-2023 Wellness Challenge

It is important to the CEWW Health Insurance Consortium to promote a healthy lifestyle for all our members. With that in mind, the Consortium teamed up with Empire to provide you with a wide range of Wellness Challenges to provide a platform to achieve a healthier you.

Whether you’re a well-seasoned athlete looking for a challenge or a rookie just looking for somewhere to start, we have a challenge fit for you! With each of our challenges, we also offer a modifier to be sure EVERYONE can participate. Our goal is for each participant to show consistent effort. Remember, always give it your best “shot”, you may even surprise yourself!

September Challenge - Mindful Minutes

The guidelines for this challenge are listed below:

    1. We challenge particpants to complete 5 minutes of minfulness/meditation during the month of September.

 

    1. Particpants can:

    2. Watch a short 5 minute video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-6f5wQXSu8

  • Meditate in silence for 5 minutes.
  • Practice the 5 senses grounding exercise.
  • Or practice another option they wish to do.

 

Submit your mindful minute option here: September Submission Form

 

October Challenge - Jump Rope

The guidelines for this challenge are listed below:

  1. Particpant will begin to jump rope when ready. Each hop over the jump rope counts as one.
  2. The goal is the complete as many consecutive jumps as possible without stopping.
  3. The challenge is over when the participant attempts to jump over the rope and the direction of the rope is stopped.
  4. Practice a little before beginning!
  5. Please record your best consecutive number of jumps.

 

  • Modifier – With feet staying on the ground, put your hands together while holding the jump rope and swing the rope in a sideways figure 8 as long as you can where the rope will touch the ground on your left side and then on your right side, again and again. Each figure 8 counts as one.

 

Submit your progress monthly here: October Submission Form

 

November Challenge - Elbow Plank

The guidelines for this challenge are listed below:

  1. Lie on the floor with forearms on the floor and legs fully extended.
  2. Raise your torso into the air until it makes a straight line from your shoulders to your ankles with your knees off the ground.
  3. Tighten your stomach and hold this position for as long as possible.  Your arms should be at a 90 degree angle.
  4. The clock stops when any part of the body, except for your elbow/forearms and feet, touch the floor.
  5. Record your best time to the nearest 1 second for the month.

Happy Planksgiving!

  • Modifier – In step 2, keep your knees on the ground and plank as long as you can.

Submit your total number of seconds/minutes here: November Submission Form



 

December Challenge - Healthy Meals

The guidelines for this challenge are listed below:

  1. Find a recipe(s) and make a healthy meal (well-balanced, low calorie, vegetarian, etc.)
  2. Eat at least a little bit of the meal you made and write a quick review if you would like to—1 to 2 sentences is plenty!
  3. Submit the recipe and your review. The recipes and their associated reviews will be compiled into an online CEWW Healthy Cookbook.
  4. A link to the cookbook will be shared during the month of January on our website, cewwhealth.org.

Submit your healthy meal details here: December Submission Form



 

January Challenge - Step Count

The guidelines for this challenge are listed below:

  1. The Step Count total will be taken from the daily totals of any three consecutive weekdays–no weekend days may be used!
  2. You can record your steps by using a pedometer app for your smart phone (or the Health app in your iPhone), Fitbit, smart watch, pedometer, etc.
  3. If you are using a pedometer, make sure that the pedometer is in a vertical position, sitting just above your hip bone and secured with the strap to the belt loop, belt, or waistband, to prevent it from falling off.
  4. If your pedometer, or monitoring device, does not have the capacity to record your steps for more than one day, log your steps at the end of each day and total at the end of three days.

Submit your total number of steps: January Submission Form

 

Biggest Loser Weigh-In

The guidelines for this event are listed below:

  1. To begin, record your initial (starting) weight in January.
  2. Starting in February, calculate your amount of weight lost (or gained) since your January weigh in.
  3. Continue to calculate your weight lost (or gained) each month and record this number on the Biggest Loser Monthly Submission Form below. (you will only submit the amount of lost/gained)
  4. With discipline, drive, and determination—anything is possible. Let the journey begin!

Submit your progress monthly here: Biggest Loser Monthly Submission Form



 

February Challenge - Jumping Jacks

The guidelines for this challenge are listed below:

  1. Participants will have 30 seconds to complete as many jumping jacks as possible.
  2. Participants will begin by standing upright with your legs together, arms at your sides.
  3. Bend your knees slightly, and jump into the air.
  4. As you jump, spread your legs to be about shoulder-width apart. Stretch your arms out and over your head.
  5. Jump back to starting position.
  6. Repeat

Modifier – Instead of jumping into the air, participants will bend knees slightly, step to the right and raise both arms, step right leg back to middle, lower arms, and repeat with the left leg.

Submit your progress monthly here: February Submission Form



 

March Challenge - Free Throws

The guidelines for this challenge are listed below:

  1. Each shooter will shoot ten (10) balls from behind the free throw line.
  2. If a shooter has a perfect score after ten (10) shots, they are allowed an additional three balls.
  3. All thirteen (13) balls are worth one point.
  4. A shooter’s total score is determined by adding the total points he/she receives for all made baskets from behind the free throw line (15 feet).  The highest possible score is 13. Record your best effort.

Modifier – Move closer to the basket than the free throw line, to ensure that you can get the ball up to the rim and take your shots from the shorter distance.

Submit your progress monthly here: March Submission Form

 

April Challenge - Push-ups

The guidelines for this challenge are listed below:

  1. Participants will have one minute to complete as many push-ups as you can.
  2. Participants will begin in the starting position with hands slightly wider than shoulder width apart, palms or fist on the floor with arms fully extended and body in a straight line from head to heel. Feet may not be more than 12” apart.
  3. From the starting point a member must lower their body to the ground until the upper arm is at least parallel to the floor (elbow bent at a 90-degree angle or less) before pushing back up to the starting point.
    Participants may only rest in the up position. They may remove their hands or feet from the floor but only in the up/rest position.
  4. When going back to the starting position your arms must be fully extended for the push up to count.
  5. If your knee(s) touch the ground at any point, that push-up does not count.

Modifier – Follow the same steps for completing the pushup with your knees on the floor for the duration.

Submit your progress monthly here: April Submission Form

 

May Challenge - Run/Walk Challenge

The guidelines for this challenge are listed below:

  1. Participants are challenged to run/walk at LEAST once a day for 5 consecutive days, for at least 10 minutes per day.
  2. Record your days walked/ran and the consecutive distance (steps) of all 5 days.</li

Modifier: Follow the same steps but for as many consecutive days as your can do in a row.

Submit your progress monthly here: May Submission Form


Rules:

To participate you must be a current employee of a District that partners with the CEWW Health Insurance Consortium or a retiree of one of these districts.

A new challenge is conducted each month.

Each challenge completed and entered will count as 1 “ticket” into the prize drawings for the month and also one entry into the grand prize drawing.

To be entered into the monthly drawing, results must be submitted via the cewwhealth.org website by the 2nd day of the following month. No late entries will be accepted. (Example: January Challenge submitted by February 2nd)

Monthly drawings will happen by the fifteenth of each month.

Winners will be notified via phone or email from the Benefits Office.

For the grand prize to be rewarded, a minimum of 1,500 challenges must be completed.

The prize(s) that may be awarded to the eligible winner(s) are not transferable, redeemable for cash or exchangeable for any other prize. If a winner cannot be contacted or is disqualified for any reason, the CEWW Health Insurance Consortium reserves the right to determine an alternate winner or not to award that winner’s prize, in its sole discretion. Prizes must be claimed within 30 days of the prize drawing.

If one or a combination of prizes won are $600, or more then the organization must report the winnings to the IRS using a 1095.

Prizes may be changed based on the discretion of the CEWW Health Insurance Consortium and Empire Blue Cross.

This entity gives no warranty and accepts no responsibility or liability regarding our prizes offered during the Wellness Challenge. Under no circumstances will the Consortium be held responsible or liable in any way for any claims, damages, injury, losses, expenses, costs, or liabilities whatsoever resulting directly or indirectly from your use of or inability to use our prizes.

Every person should consult their physician before starting any exercise program or changing their diet.

Prizes

September:

  • 5 FIT BITS
  • 2 RELAX KITS
  • 1 YOGA KIT

OCTOBER:

  • 5 FIT BITS
  • 5 ELECTRIC TOOTHBRUSHES
  • 2 MOUNTAIN BIKES

NOVEMBER:

  • 5 FIT BITS
  • 5 ELETRIC TOOTHBRUSHES
  • 2 WIRELESS EARBUDS

DECEMBER:

  • 3 HEALTHY MEALS BOXES
  • 2 FIT BITS
  • 2 XC SKIS AND POLES
  • 3 WATER PICS

JANUARY:

  • 5 FIT BITS
  • 1 STRENGTH KIT
  • 2 SNOWSHOE KITS
  • 2 WATER PICS

FEBRUARY:

  • 5 WIRELESS EARBUDS
  • 2 RELAX KITS
  • 5 WATER PICS

MARCH:

  • 5 FIT BITS
  • 5 ELETRIC TOOTHBRUSHES
  • 5 WATER PICS

APRIL:

  • 5 FIT BITS
  • 2 FARMERS MARKET VOUCHERS
  • 2 CRUISER BIKES

MAY:

  • 5 FIT BITS
  • 2 MOUNTAIN BIKES

GRAND PRIZE:

  • EXERCISE BIKE WITH SCREEN!

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The CEWW Health Insurance Consortium is a group of 16 area school districts that work together collectively to provide health insurance for district employees. The Consortium was formed in the early 1980’s for the purpose of purchasing insurance on a cooperative basis. We continue to adjust to the needs of our members and the changing health care environment by working collectively to provide best in class health coverage and in the most fiscally responsible manner for our members and our component school districts.

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