Friends Life Care has been helping older adults to successfully age in place since the mid-eighties.  Part of that proven formula is having a focus on holistic health and wellness.  This summer, Friends Life Care team members “walked the talk” through a company-wide wellness challenge.

Walk with Friends Challenge

The “Walk with Friends Challenge” kicked off on June 19 — the 1^st week of summer — and ran until September 24 — last week of summer.  The program was designed to encourage our employees to walk more and to track their activity using their preferred fitness app.

Participants had the chance to win gift cards and bragging rights! But the biggest prize of all was getting in the daily steps and making healthy choices about exercise.

Friends Life Care Goes the Extra Mile

The challenge was a huge success, with over 50% of our employees joining in and logging their steps. Together, we walked a total of 11,869,934 steps.

With an average of 2,000 steps in a mile, that means the team walked 5,935 miles which is just about the equivalent of walking across the United States twice.

And the walkers burned an estimated 600,000 calories which is equivalent to 3,000 donuts.

Here’s to the Top Walkers

Please join us as we congratulate all the participants for their efforts and achievements.

We also want to recognize the top three walkers who walked the most during the contest:

– Rita: 1,947,519 steps

– Patti:  1,378.034 steps

– Joe: 1,094,374 steps

Keep On Walking

We hope that this challenge inspired you to keep walking and stay healthy too. Walking is one of the easiest and most beneficial forms of exercise.

It can help you reduce stress, improve your mood, and prevent chronic diseases.

Friends Life Care is proud of our wellness culture and we look forward to continuing to promote health and wellbeing among the staff.