Walk Week 2009 - Workplace Participation
The Walk Week Corporate Challenge has now been closed. Please take 5 minutes to complete an evaluation form to help us to improve the challenge next year. |
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Workplaces across Perth are encouraged to get involved in Walk Week 2009 – Walk There Today by participating in the online corporate walking challenge or organising a walking event for staff members. By registering your organisation to participate in Walk Week 2009, you will receive a FREE event kit with a selection of giveaways for participants.
Walk Week 2009 Corporate Challenge
This year workplaces are offered the opportunity to register and participate in the Online Corporate Walking Challenge! Workplace teams of four can be created by staff members and will compete over a four week period to see which team can accrue the most steps, both in their own office and with other workplaces across WA.
Using your pedometer
Using personal pedometers throughout the challenge, each team's step total will be tracked on a public leaders board on the Walking Website. The team that has accumulated the highest step count at the end of the challenge will win a great prize pack, including a Bibbulmun Track package, a Heart Foundation BBQ cook book and much more!
Always make sure your pedometer is clipped to your waist band in line with your knee joint.
It is important that your wear your pedometer from when you get out of bed to when you go to sleep. The pedometer is designed to measure steps so please do not use it when swimming, cycling, dancing, or engaging in other physical activities.
You can also convert other types of physical activity and add these to your walking steps. Please use the conversion chart (pdf 84kb) provided to ensure consistency.
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Logging your Steps
When logging your steps make sure you zero your pedometer after you have entered the data. The easiest way to keep track is to log your steps each morning when you get to work, zero your pedometer, then start again. This will give you a better indication of your progress.
The closing dates for logging your steps are in the table below:
| Challenge dates |
Cut off date for logging steps |
| Week 1 |
12th to 18th October |
5pm Wednesday 21st October |
| Week 2 |
19th to 25th October |
5pm Wednesday 28th October |
| Week 3 |
26th October to 1st November |
5pm Wednesday 4th November |
| Week 4 |
2nd to 8th November |
5pm Wednesday 11th November |
Walking Speed and Distance Guide
The table below can be used to determine how far you have walked based on the time it takes.
| Walking Speed |
Time |
| |
10mins |
20 mins |
30 mins |
| Slow |
0.6km |
1.2km |
1.8km |
| Medium |
0.9km |
1.8km |
2.7km |
| Fast |
1.1km |
2.2km |
3.3km |
The online challenge also includes weekly newsletters that will be emailed to each participant:
Newsletter week 1: 10 ways to reach 10,000 steps..... (pdf 60kb)
Newsletter week 2 (pdf 60kb)
Newsletter week 3 (pdf 180kb)
Newsletter week 4 (pdf 112kb)
Workplace events
Registrations for Walk Week 2009 have now closed.
- Organising a healthy ‘walk to work’ breakfast or a lunch time walk with colleagues to a café or park.
- Encouraging employees to walk to meetings or to deliver messages around the workplace or nearby.
- Asking staff that drive to work to park further away from the workplace and walk the remaining distance.
Workplace walking challenges are designed to:
- Positively increase the physical activity levels of staff
- Improve office social interaction and teamwork skills
- Encourage the implementation of an ongoing workplace walking or exercise program
- Foster a friendly sense of competition and fun
- Encourage people to think of the places they could conveniently walk to instead of taking a car.
- Help people consider the places outside of a work environment where they might walk as a form of exercise
Workplaces are also encouraged to host a walking display or information presentation on the benefits of walking. For more information, ideas and recommendations on operating a walking display, contact the Walking Unit, or download the Workplace Information Kit (pdf1.9MB). |
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