Women's Health Challenge

Welcome to the 5th annual WOMAN Challenge!

Join us for the 8-week challenge starting on Mother's Day, Sunday May 11th to kick-off National Women's Health Week.

28 days until the WOMAN Challenge begins!

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What is the WOMAN Challenge?

This May, thousands of women across the country will embark on an eight-week physical activity challenge for better health. They will be part of the WOMAN Challenge: Women and girls Out Moving Across the Nation.

To kick-off the ninth annual National Women's Health Week (May 11-17, 2008) the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health is coordinating the WOMAN Challenge. The free eight week WOMAN challenge encourages women and girls to set and achieve personal physical activity goals, appropriate for their lifestyles. The WOMAN Challenge begins on Mother's Day, May 11, and ends on July 5, 2008. Register at www.womenshealth.gov/woman.

This looks like a great idea! Are we going to try to form a team? I'm interested. This would be the perfect kick-off to my new life after I get my band on 4/28. Keep me posted. Petite Flowers march on!

Those folks who are interested must register first and then I can pull them into our team. It's just another way for us to be accountable in our exercise efforts. The beauty of this program is that you can do any kind of activity you like and they have a converter to figure the number of steps.  I would like to make it completely across the county in the eight weeks.  They are offering four bonus challenges too during the course of the event. And you get a little certificate at the end for completing the program. Go ahead and get signed up. They will send you a welcome packet if you are one of the first 40,000 participants, otherwise you can download the information from the web site.  Let's get everybody excited and signed up!