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Exercise Examples and Videos

View sample exercise routines and videos. Remember to start slow if you are new to exercise, and talk to your doctor if you have concerns.

Physical Activity Kit

HHS, Indian Health Service 
Find exercise videos and guides for American Indian and Alaskan Native children, adults, and older adults.

National #YogaMonth Livestream Recording: The Science and Practice of Yoga

HHS, National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health 
Explore the research on yoga for health, and follow along to a demonstration of common yoga poses.

Exercise Videos for Older Adults

HHS, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging 
Follow along to sample workout videos for older adults, including these and more:

4 Flexibility and Cool Down Exercises for Older Adults (10 minutes)

15-minute Workout for Older Adults

6 Flexibility Exercises for Older Adults (20 minutes)

Ways to Stretch

HHS, Office on Women's Health, Girlshealth.gov 
Loosen tight muscles and release tension with these sample stretches. 

Boost Your Performance with Yoga

Department of Defense, Uniformed Services University, Consortium for Health and Military Performance 
Find videos of yoga routines for calming, balancing, and strengthening. Plus, learn about the health benefits.

Foundational Movements

Department of Defense, Uniformed Services University, Consortium for Health and Military Performance 
Discover how to safely perform different strength exercises, including:

Carries (e.g. farmer's carry)
Deadlifts
Lunges
Pull Movements (e.g. rows)
Push Movements (e.g. overhead press)
Squats

Homemade Fitness

Department of Defense, Uniformed Services University, Consortium for Health and Military Performance 
Trying to stay active at home? Find videos and ideas of exercises using bodyweight or common household items.

Get Fit For Life Videos

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 
Use these 5-10 minute videos for quick exercise breaks, or try them one after another for a longer workout.

Physical Activity Break Videos

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 
Learn how to perform common stretches and exercises with these short videos.
Worksite Wellness

The Workday Stretching Guide can help you break up long periods of sitting and achieve better flexibility. And if you're spending a lot of time at your desk, try this office yoga stretch break to reduce stress and refresh your mind.
	

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Mindfulness Moments

	Brief mental breaks at work help you focus on a task longer, work more productively and get more creative. Take a moment to practice square breathing, a technique to reduce stress and calm your nervous system.
	

Practice deep breathing

Team Wellness Challenges

Workplace Wellness "Challenges" - activities that engage people in becoming happier, healthier, and more energetic at work - are gaining popularity and changing lives at work. The purpose of challenges is to encourage healthier lifestyle behaviors. Challenges are successful when a supportive, positive climate of fun and camaraderie helps people to adopt or maintain a healthy way of living. With little or no investment in creating a company challenge, the net result is an engaged and productive workforce that performs at a higher level - everybody wins!
	

Walk or bike to work - count each trip to and from or count the miles
Do the "Noon Walk" - walk a mile during lunch with coworkers and count the miles. A Monthly Certificate of Achievement is awarded each month for Gold (30 miles), Silver (20 miles), and Bronze (10 miles) levels of achievement.
Stair climbing competition - count the stairs climbed everyday toward achieving an established goal for total stairs climbed over a given time period
Avoid the elevator - get a point every time that you take the stairs instead of the elevator

Integrating physical activity into the workday

 

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The length of a year is based on how long it takes a planet to revolve around the Sun. Earth takes about 365.2422 days to make one revolution around the Sun. That's about six hours longer than the 365 days that we typically include in a calendar year. As a result, every four years, we have about 24 extra hours that we add to the calendar at the end of February in the form of leap day.Without leap day, the dates of annual events, such as equinoxes and solstices, would slowly shift to later in the year, changing the dates of each season. After only a century without leap day, summer wouldn’t start until mid-July!But the peculiar adjustments don't end there. If Earth revolved around the Sun in exactly 365 days and six hours, this system of adding a leap day every four years would need no exceptions. However, Earth takes a little less time than that to orbit the Sun. Rounding up and inserting a 24-hour leap day every four years adds about 45 extra minutes to every four-year leap cycle. That adds up to about three days every 400 years. To correct for that, years that are divisible by 100 don't have leap days unless they’re also divisible by 400.If you do the math, you'll see that the year 2000 was a leap year, but 2100, 2200 and 2300 will not be.Have students learn more about leap years with this article from NASA's Space Place, then have them do the math for themselves with this leap day problem set. You can also have students write a letter or poem to be opened on the next leap day or get them learning about orbits across the solar system.And since we've got an extra 24 hours this year, don't forget to take a little time to relax!Educator Resources Problem Set Leap Day Math In this problem set, students calculate the difference between the calendar year and Earth's orbital period to determine when leap years occur. Subject Math Grades 5-8 Time Less than 30 mins Collection Solar System Scale & Size Lessons Explore a collection of standards-aligned lessons all about the size and scale of our solar system. Educator Guide Planetary Poetry Have students write a poem they can open and re-read next leap day!
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No Kids? How Being Childfree Impacts Retirement Planning
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More Americans are choosing to be childfree, meaning they have chosen not to have children—biological, adopted, or step. Being childfree is not the same as being an adult without children—someone who is planning on having children in the future or would like to have children but may be unable to.
It’s difficult to quantify how many people are currently childfree, but a recent study estimates that 1 in 5 Americans have opted out of parenthood. Pew Research found that 44% of people under 50 who don’t have children now don’t expect to have children in the future, an increase since the COVID-19 pandemic.
So, how does being childfree change your financial and retirement planning? Here are a few points to consider.
What are you spending or saving for?
Without childcare expenses or college savings, childfree people may in general have more funds at their disposal. Depending on their priorities, childfree adults can spend their extra cash on travel, charities, hobbies, and building up a sizeable retirement savings.
Start by examining your lifestyle and priorities to determine how to allocate your money. Make a list of goals and develop a budget. It’s important when budgeting to plan for the unexpected—good and bad. Automatically placing your money in different buckets, such as “travel,” “emergency fund,” and “donations” can help you reach your savings goals.
It’s always a good idea to pay yourself first, meaning setting aside money for your future retirement. Your CalPERS pension and Social Security, if available to you, are a good place to start, but it’s also wise to establish a deferred compensation plan such as a 401(k) or IRA. As a CalPERS member, a variety of plans are available to you.
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Astronaut Exercise - NASA
NASA astronauts Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson prepare for a session of the Sprint study.
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Appropriate equipment is important, but so is the way it is used. Early exercise regimens included running on a treadmill at low velocity and conducting resistance exercise at low loads for long periods of time. Despite spending up to 10 hours per week exercising, astronauts continued to lose muscle mass and bone density. Growing evidence showed that high-intensity, low-volume exercise was more effective at maintaining fitness on Earth. The Integrated Resistance and Aerobic Training Study (Sprint) compared results of low-intensity, high-volume with high-intensity, low-volume workouts in microgravity. The outcomes were similar, but shorter workouts save crew time – a valuable resource on missions – and reduce wear and tear on exercise equipment.4 Future missions may be limited to a single device for both aerobic and resistance exercise, necessitating shorter workouts so each crew member gets a turn. Higher intensity exercise could compensate for these limits.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit conducts the VO2max experiment using the CEVIS.
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An investigation called VO2max documented changes in maximum oxygen uptake, which is considered a standard measure of a person’s aerobic and physical working capacity. Long-duration spaceflight caused a significant decrease in maximal oxygen uptake and aerobic exercise capacity.5 These results have important implications for future long-duration space missions, adding to the evidence that current countermeasures may not be adequate.

ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti runs on the station’s T2 treadmill. 
ESA/NASA

Muscle Biopsy, an investigation from ESA (European Space Agency), analyzed molecular changes in skeletal muscle before and after spaceflight and identified an enzyme product that could be used as a possible indicator of muscle health. The findings suggest that current exercise protocols are effective in preventing muscle deconditioning and support improvements in countermeasures to protect crew health and performance on future deep space exploration missions.6
While current exercise programs appear to moderate changes in musculoskeletal systems, individual results vary.
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KIDS Account recipient child and the child’s parents or legal guardians of the moneys deposited and accrued in the child’s KIDS Account, and rules and regulations regarding the establishment and operation of program components, as specified. The bill would establish KIDS Accounts for all unduplicated pupils in the 2021–22 fiscal year, and for unduplicated pupils who are entering first grade commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, if one has not already been established for them under the KIDS Program. The bill would allocate $500 into each new and existing KIDS Account of an unduplicated pupil, an additional $500 into the KIDS Accounts of those unduplicated pupils who are also foster youth, and an additional $500 into the KIDS Accounts of those unduplicated pupils who are also homeless pupils.Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials
	 and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.(11) Under existing law, the Middle Class Scholarship Program, an undergraduate student enrolled at the University of California or the California State University, or enrolled in upper division coursework in a community college baccalaureate program, and meeting certain requirements, is eligible for a scholarship award that, combined with other federal, state, and institutionally administered grants and fee waivers, totals up to 40% of the systemwide tuition and fees.Existing law, upon order of the Director of Finance, transfers $117,000,000 from the General Fund to the Middle Class Scholarship Fund for the
	 2019–20 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, and appropriates that sum to the Student Aid Commission for purposes of the scholarship program.This bill would revise provisions of the Middle Class Scholarship Program. Among the changes, the bill would provide, commencing with the 2022–23 academic year, an eligible student with a scholarship award in an amount that equals the difference between the student’s cost of attendance, as determined by the commission, and the sum of contributions from sources, including federal, state, and institutionally administered student scholarships, grants, or fee waivers, to fund the student’s cost of attendance.
Success Stories | Food and Nutrition Service
But when a school nutrition program chooses to celebrate the fair, of course, the focus is on the food and fun!

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Diversity Results in Delicious School Meals
Roseville Area Schools in Minnesota leverages the diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds of their students to create meals from several countries and continents. The school nutrition team continues to learn how to maintain the integrity of dishes while meeting USDA guidelines for specific food groups. Feedback from students, families, and often local chefs informs this entire process.

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Healthy School Meals in Uncertain Times 
Despite the many challenges that came with the pandemic and other events leading to increased costs and supply chain disruptions, Montague Area Public Schools in Michigan found stability for their nutrition department by providing free school meals through the Community Eligibility Provision and capitalizing on local foods and its well-established Farm to School education programming to keep kids coming back for more.

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Farmers Make Healthy School Meals Possible
With partnerships between community and industry, and support from USDA and others, Hillsborough County’s School Nutrition Program has not just weathered the storm in service to the kids who count on them but has never stopped looking for ways to innovate and improve.

02/22/2023

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After a traumatic injury that negatively affects their function, many Veterans begin participating in adaptive sport programs. VA Boston Healthcare System offers many programs of its own and also teams with community partners to provide a variety of sports, including...
Summer Sports:

Kayaking
Cycling
Surfing
Rowing
Fishing
Sailing
Golf

Winter Sports:

Nordic
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Snowboarding

Wheelchair Sports:

tennis
basketball
softball
soccer

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Criteria for Participation
All injured active-duty service members and disabled Veterans are encouraged to be involved in some sort of active leisure lifestyle post-injury. To become a participant you should:

 Be enrolled at the VA Boston Health Care System
 Have an interest in adaptive sports, outdoor recreation and/or fitness activities
 Be medically stable and cleared for active participation
 Obtain consult from you primary care physician for “Adaptive Sports/Recreation” evaluation
 Complete sports evaluation for full assessment 

 

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Increasing Transparency of County Office of Education Spending 
To better understand each COE’s role, we recommend an annual report that includes a narrative of the major activities and services COEs conduct, allowing local partners and the state to understand the key work COEs do to support school districts and students. 
 Recommend Several Changes to LCAP. We find several issues with current LCAPs. In particular, some spending information can be difficult to interpret, focusing on increases in services for specific student groups is arbitrary given the COE student population, and some state‑required metrics are not particularly relevant for assessing COE‑run programs. We recommend a variety of changes to LCAPs that would make spending information easier to interpret, allow state and local partners to better understand existing programs and services to students, streamline certain aspects of the LCAP, and use metrics for COEs that would be a better indication of performance in COE‑run schools.
 Recommend Expenditure Report on Operations Grant Funding. The LCFF operations grant has no reporting requirements and is unrestricted, which means the state knows very little about how these funds are spent. We recommend COEs develop a report specifically on how the LCFF operations grant was spent. The report should disaggregate spending into three categories: (1) oversight and support to school districts, (2) juvenile court and county community schools, and (3) direct services to students not enrolled in juvenile court and community schools. The report should also be in a format that is comparable across the state. 
Introduction
COEs Have Two Distinct Missions. COEs provide direct instruction to students in juvenile court and county community schools. These schools serve students placed in county juvenile facilities, as well as students who are on probation, referred by a probation department, or mandatorily expelled from their school district. In addition to serving these specific students, COEs provide a range of oversight and support to school districts in their county. Some of these activities, such as fiscal and academic oversight, are required by state law. Many other activities COEs conduct are optional, with the specific activities conducted by COEs varying significantly across the state. COEs receive most of their state funding for activities aligned with these missions through the LCFF.