Beyond Weight Loss: Developing an Effective Health & Fitness Plan

Product Description

Overview

Physical wellness is a key component of healthy ministry, but it is difficult to make time for it in the stress of everyday life. In addition, everyone – from doctors and the media to friends and neighbors – seems to have an opinion about what is best for our health. How do you sort through all the available information and make good, practical choices? Dana Dowd, PT, MS, offers tips for creating a personal health and fitness plan to help focus your efforts and achieve better overall results. Participants will learn how to develop concrete physical wellness goals and integrate them into a busy schedule.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

1. Learn to differentiate between health and fitness;
2. Identify the key components of health and fitness; and
3. Learn how to develop and implement your own personal health and fitness goals safely and effectively.

Who Should Participate

Priests, deacons, men and women religious, lay ministers, and those involved in vocations, formation, or clergy and ministry personnel needs.

Reflection Questions

Questions for reflection and discussion prior to the learning session are provided below.

1. Aside from weight loss, what do I want to change about my current health?
2. Have I had a good health plan in place before? What worked? What didn’t?
3. Do I know how to listen to my body?