Winter Workout Challenge

The Winter Workout Challenge is a two month progressively building challenge with a variety of exercise options for people of ALL fitness levels. Your Parks and Recreation staff have developed 8 weeks of workouts for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level exercisers in weight-strength, cardio, and aquatic categories. The mission of the Winter Workout Challenge (WWC) is to provide an opportunity for the community to kick-start their fitness and find healthy ways to increase their energy in the dark, wet, and cold winters in Wrangell.

The WWC is also a contest of sorts. The participant who completes the greatest amount of workouts in the 8 week period will win an Annual Pass to the facility, as well as the Grand Prize basket! The WWC provides the intrinsic incentive of increased health, fitness, and confidence. Not to mention opportunities for exploring different types of exercise and meeting new friends!

Wrangell Parks & Rec have also teamed up with local businesses in the community who support the mission behind the WWC and have generously donated gifts that will be raffled off each week to participants who complete at least one approved workout that week.

• Program Fee: FREE, however, use of the Recreation Facility and Swimming Pool must be paid for byway of the daily entry fee, punch card payment or memberships.
• Ages: 14+
• Are you under 14 and want to participate in the WWC? See below!!
• Registration: December 17th, 2018
• Program Dates: January 1, 2019 - March 1st, 2019

• Participants who complete workouts "off-campus" from the Recreation Facility and Swimming Pool must show proof of workouts completed by snapping a photo and showing it to staff at the facility when your points are posted on the progress chart.
• Each Friday, a new set of Aquatics, Cardio, and Weights workouts will be posted on the WWC Bulletin Board. After completion of this or any other approved workout, alert the staff to place a tally mark corresponding to the specific week and your name on the WWC Progress Poster.
• Cardio: These workouts can range from use of several workout machines in the facility, jogging outdoors is permitted. These workouts will get progressively longer and more challenging as you gain endurance and cardio capacity.
• Weights: Combinations of Body weight, Free weight, and weight machine exercises will be used to get an all-around strength workout for your body each week. We try and target every major muscle group every week. These workouts will get progressively more challenging as you gain strength.
• Aquatics: Our aquatics workouts are geared to build your endurance. Any combination of strokes can be used. Depending on your exercise level, you will complete a certain amount of minutes for completion of this workout category. These workouts will get progressively longer as you gain endurance in the water.
• Other approved workouts are: Type of Workouts: Yoga (Wrangell Fitness OR AICS)*, ANY Wrangell Fitness workout class (Body Pump, GRiT, CXWorx)*, Mt. Dewey hike, Volunteer Trail Hike, Rainbow Falls Hike, Water Aerobics Class, Arthiritis Class, Masters Swimming/ Meets, Southeast Beasts Sunday Runs*, Raquetball, Wallyball, Innertube Water Polo, Bike Path walk/ride. *Affiliated WWC Organization

• Are you under 14? Do you want to win prizes for being active?
• Gain WWC Points for completing any of the accepted activities listed below. Be sure to report these to WPR staff each time you complete them!
• The kid who completes the most activities will win a FREE 6 month pass to the WPR Facility!
• Here are examples of accepted activities: General swim, Family Swim, Swim Club practice or meet, Mt. Dewey, Open Gym, Rainbow Falls, ANY School Sport GAME or PRACTICE, Wolfpack Wrestling practice, Tot Gym, Walk or Ride on Bike Path, Volunteer Trail.
• Remember if you complete workouts "off-campus" from the Recreation Facility and Swimming Pool you MUST show proof of workouts completed by snapping a photo and showing it to staff at the facility when your points are posted on the progress chart.

• Each workout or approved activity you complete will earn you a WWC point. Keep track of your progress throughout the 8 week period on our WWC Progress Poster, which will be found on our bulletin board.
• We have teamed up with several other fitness-motivated organizations from the community to provide you even more options to gain WWC points (Wrangell Fitness, Southeast Beasts).
• There are also activities that can be completed outdoors for WWC points as well (Mt. Dewey, Volunteer Trail hike, Rainbow Falls Hike, Southeast Beasts Sunday Runs + Fun Run Events, bike path walk/ride).
• You will also be awarded a WWC point for snapping a picture of a healthy meal you cooked that WPR had posted that week!