Success StoryCouch Potato Challenge
Couch Potato Challenge
Author: Katherine Alexander
Planning Unit: Daviess County CES
Major Program: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices (general)
Plan of Work: Unrelated to a specified County Plan of Work
Outcome: Initial Outcome
Webster County Extension Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences offered a newsletter-based walking program designed for individuals who have not previously been physically active or who have not been physically active in a long time. There were fourteen (14) participants. One-hundred percent of participants increased the amount of walking that they did on a weekly basis. Eighty percent of participants examined ways to set goals for walking. A follow-up evaluation revealed that one-hundred percent of participants are still engaging in weekly physical activity.
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