Sixtyplus Place

By Madeleine Kolb

When I stumbled on The President’s Challenge website at www.presidentschallenge.org, I was excited. I was already exercising regularly, but the Challenge could help me stay motivated for the long haul.  So about a year ago, I got with the program.

It was simple. I just logged on to the website, picked My Favorite physical activities from the list, and then—every time I exercised—I entered the date, activity, duration, and intensity (rate) in my online Activity Log. 

Sometimes I ran, usually I walked. Sometimes I walked with my BF, usually I walked alone. Sometimes it was raining, usually it was dry. And in three months, I racked up 20,000 points to earn a Bronze medallion. I was elated!  (more…)

By Madeleine Kolb

I like to measure how I’m doing. It’s the best way I know to stay motivated when it comes to things like physical activity. So for nearly a year now, I’ve been participating in a terrific program that encourages people of all ages to be physically active (or more physically active) and helps them track their progress. It’s the President’s Challenge at www.presidentschallenge.org, part of the President’s Commission on Physical Fitness and Sports. 

I got involved shortly after I retired from my job a year ago. At that time, I thought long and hard about what to do for exercise. I’d spent years exercising on a treadmill at the fitness center at work.  And a treadmill measures lots of things:  how long you walked or ran, how fast, at what incline, even calories burned.  But I figured I’d had enough running on a treadmill to last me the rest of my life.  (more…)