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Walk Kansas: This statewide program encourages team-based movement and provides accountability and encouragement to help you meet national Physical Activity Guidelines and improve your well-being.<\/p>\nWalk Kansas: This statewide program encourages team-based movement and provides accountability and encouragement to help you meet national Physical Activity Guidelines and improve your well-being.<\/p>\n
By MICHELLE BERAN
Cottonwood Extension District<\/p>\n
Have you gotten outside for some fresh air? Taken a walk with friends or family? Better yet, have you signed up for Walk Kansas?<\/p>\n
While Walk Kansas kicked off on Sunday, March 22, there is still time to register your team and see how far you can walk between now and May 16!<\/p>\n
Walk Kansas is an 8-week K-State Extension (KSE) health initiative that promotes personal health and well-being by helping participants adopt healthful lifestyle habits. While primarily a team-based program, you can also go solo! Walk Kansas will help you:<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Be more active with support from friends and family<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Make healthier nutrition and beverage choices<\/p>\n
\u00b7 Learn helpful techniques to reduce stress, sleep well, and improve overall well-being<\/p>\n
This marks the 26th Walk Kansas program. Each year brings a renewed focus on helping participants meet the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans and increasing the amount of fruits and vegetables they eat.<\/p>\n
If you follow us on social media, we\u2019ll be posting a weekly newsletter which includes a recipe and I\u2019m looking forward to trying the Mediterranean Chicken Bake that will be available this week. Our Cottonwood Extension District team would love to see you share pictures of your team on our posts!<\/p>\n
I am definitely not a runner but my family would tell you that I regularly \u201cpower walk\u201d everywhere. However, many other activities count toward our weekly minutes, including gardening, team sports, and strengthening exercises. The Walk Kansas Activity Guide (walkkansas.org\/doc\/participant\/WK.Activity.Guide.26.pdf<\/a>) is a great resource for other ways to increase your activity.<\/p>\n Keep learning. Keep showing grace and kindness!<\/p>\n Michelle Beran is a Family and Community Wellness Agent in the Cottonwood Extension District. For more information on this article or other K-State Extension resources, email Michelle at mberan@ksu.edu or call Cottonwood Extension District \u2013 Barton Office at 620-793-1910.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walk Kansas: This statewide program encourages team-based movement and provides accountability and encouragement to help you meet national…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[337,97],"class_list":{"0":"post-570973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}