Spring Break
Program sees higher participation than expected
Yael Reed Wachspress
Issue date: 3/14/07 Section: News
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The Spartan Walkers officially trekked onto campus on February 22, promoting physical fitness amid San Jose State University students, faculty, alumni and the community.
The Spartan Walkers program is designed to challenge people on an individual basis with encouragement to take the stairs as opposed to an elevator.
It is free to become a participant of the Spartan Walkers, to sign up simply log onto sjsu.pyrasports.com and create a new account.
"It's completely an individual thing," said Cyrus Mansoor, a senior majoring in marketing. "It is to promote people being active and to get them walking around."
"The program is an individual online tracking system," said Nicole Hagar, the fitness and activities coordinator at SJSU.
After registering to be a part of the program, walkers are encouraged to wear a pedometer during the day, which keeps a record of the number steps walked.
"I put mine on the second I wake up until the minute I go to sleep," Hagar said.
Hagar said the campus recreation department went through 100 pedometers in the first three days of the program. This surpassed the number the department had planned to give out, and are currently trying to muster up some more.
According to the Department of Health and Human services the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports feels the time is right to send a more proactive message to Americans about the importance of making physical activity, fitness and sports a regular part of their daily schedule.
Among others, everyone in the Associated Students office building has been wearing pedometers and has been highly competitive in counting the amount of steps being walked.
"I think it's cool," said Randy Saffold SJSU's campus recreation manager.
"I've been counting my steps and wearing my pedometer."
The competition in the Associated Students building motivated Saffold who was averaging about 5,000 steps a day, when the online recommendation for the number of steps to walk is 10,000 a day.
The Spartan Walkers program is designed to challenge people on an individual basis with encouragement to take the stairs as opposed to an elevator.
It is free to become a participant of the Spartan Walkers, to sign up simply log onto sjsu.pyrasports.com and create a new account.
"It's completely an individual thing," said Cyrus Mansoor, a senior majoring in marketing. "It is to promote people being active and to get them walking around."
"The program is an individual online tracking system," said Nicole Hagar, the fitness and activities coordinator at SJSU.
After registering to be a part of the program, walkers are encouraged to wear a pedometer during the day, which keeps a record of the number steps walked.
"I put mine on the second I wake up until the minute I go to sleep," Hagar said.
Hagar said the campus recreation department went through 100 pedometers in the first three days of the program. This surpassed the number the department had planned to give out, and are currently trying to muster up some more.
According to the Department of Health and Human services the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports feels the time is right to send a more proactive message to Americans about the importance of making physical activity, fitness and sports a regular part of their daily schedule.
Among others, everyone in the Associated Students office building has been wearing pedometers and has been highly competitive in counting the amount of steps being walked.
"I think it's cool," said Randy Saffold SJSU's campus recreation manager.
"I've been counting my steps and wearing my pedometer."
The competition in the Associated Students building motivated Saffold who was averaging about 5,000 steps a day, when the online recommendation for the number of steps to walk is 10,000 a day.
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