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The dedicated professionals of Adler & Associates International developed the High Intensity Fitness Initiative Training (HI-FIT) T program as an expansion/extension of the renowned Fighting And Survival TacticsT system. These dynamic systems of training were designed to develop and enhance cardio respiratory and biomechanical fortitude in the tradition of the Sphere Of SurvivalT. They were originally developed for military and law enforcement personnel but can be adapted to people from ALL walks of life who want to take their health and fitness to the next level! Adler & Associates International has adopted the President's Challenge to promote a healthy and active lifestyle for anyone wishing to improve their lives by participating in the Presidential Champions program through the online HI-FITT group. The Presidential Champions program is simple and convenient for participants to log a variety of activities online and become eligible for awards.

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Alphabet Fitness® develops the Alphabet Athlete ^TM. It is a movement-linked, alphabet learning system for children. Just like athletes, all children need to condition their body's muscles to grow well, feel well, and perform well. In the same way as athletes train their body and mind for peak performance , Alphabet Fitness children use the 26 letters of the alphabet to train their body and mind for literacy & fitness.

Designed by Wellness, Inc. to fight illiteracy, obesity and stress related diseases, Alphabet Fitness® is now incorporating the President's Challenge to broaden its accessibility to children of all motor skill levels as a fun new way to spell, read, write, and be well.

The President's Challenge invites Head Start Centers, Pre-schools, Home Schoolers, Elementary schools, and Special Ed programs to participate in Wellness, Inc.' Alphabet Fitness programs for kids . Individual children, or whole classes, can now post their "Alphabet WorkOut" activity points online at www.presidentschallenge.org and earn the President's Active Life Style Awards, as well as challenge other schools! (Sign on under Alphabet Fitness, group #32449)

Please go to www.alphabetfitness.org for ways to participate, win awards, download info, and improve your own BMIQ ^TM (Body Muscle Intelligence Quotient) or email: DrAlphabet@alphabetfitness.org *Alphabet Fitness® aligns with state and national educational mandates in the areas of language acquisition and fitness, & UN Article 31 Rights of Child to Play.

Alphabet Fitness® o Alfabeto para la Salud ha sido diseñado para desarrollar atletas alfabéticos. Este es un sistema de movimientos motrices ligados al alfabeto.Diseñado por Wellness, Inc. para luchar contra el analfabetismo, la obesidad y las enfermedades relacionadas con el estrés. Alphabet Fitness® o Alfabeto para la Salud ahora incorpora el "Desafío Presidencial" mas conocido como "The President's Challenge", para ensanchar su accesibilidad a todos los niños de diferentes niveles motrices, de acuerdo a sus edades, y habilidades. Este entrenamiento físico agradable a los niños imita las letras del alfabeto y los números, o sea el ABC & el 123 con movimientos del cuerpo, y se convierten en herramientas fundamentales para que los niños aprendan y mejoren sus salud. El usar diariamente el ejercicio de las 26 letras en posturas corporales ayuda a reducir el estrés, estimular la habilidad fina y motorizada de leer, así como entrenar le mente y el cuerpo. Este sistema ayuda a los niños sincronizar la lectura, escritura y habilidad de escuchar claramente, incrementado la flexibilidad de sus cuerpos, coordinación y bienestar.

Ya sea individualmente en su computadora, en grupos, o en clases de educación física, ahora puedes mantener y contabilizar tus puntos de actividad de ejercicio Alfabético en la pagina Internet www.presidentschallenge.org y tener la oportunidad de ganar "El Premio al Estilo de Vida Activo de la Presidencia," así también como competir con otras escuelas en este desafío a la salud.

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Kirk and Nancy Lawrence have both enjoyed outstanding careers as certified fitness professionals, traveling around the world teaching fitness. They can now add the title "Owners" to their resume, which includes a combined 55 years of experience as personal trainers, group exercise leaders, teachers of fitness-related PE, international fitness presenters, authors, exercise researchers (with UCSF Medical School) and as creators of "Raisin Youth Fitness". Their national fitness-related PE program, "Raisin Youth Fitness", which was sponsored by the California Raisin Advisory Board and endorsed by former Chairman of the PCPFS Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1991-1992, was a huge success. Arnold said, "Congratulations, your program shows we can reverse the youth fitness decline." Almost 100,000 American elementary school students improved their President's Council Fitness scores a remarkable 21% in just 12 weeks with Raisin Youth Fitness!

Kirk and Nancy own Anytime Fitness Westfield, a state of the art secure access health club that is OPEN 24/7/365 and is the 1st gym in the U.S.A. to offer its members FREE DirecTV in HDTV on each individual cardio piece of equipment... wow! They are proud to be recognized as President’s Challenge Advocates and incorporate the President’s Challenge website and program so their clients can have an opportunity to earn presidential recognition as they get and stay fit and active. Their website is www.anytimefitness.com and use the club locator by typing Westfield, IN 46074 or just 46074… thank you!

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Athletic Republic's primary clientele are student athletes aged 8-18, but it is their classmates who we hope to inspire through our support of the National President's Challenge. Typically, we train athletes to improve their movement skills, specifically speed, power and agility, through performance sports training programs we've developed based on years of research into how the body responds to particular stresses. And, over the course of our 17-year history, we've helped develop the full potential of over 500,000 athletes. Our goal for the 2008 Challenge is to inspire the students in Athletic Republic's group to log 500,000 minutes of physical activity per week throughout the National President's Challenge. That would equal 3 million minutes, or 50,000 hours of logged activity over the six-week Challenge. To learn more about Athletic Republic, please visit www.AthleticRepublic.com.

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Our team of associates at The Bailey Group is dedicated to providing our clients with the highest quality of service for insurance, benefits, and financial strategies. Our list of value-added services is constantly increasing with the needs and demands of our community and the industry, and we have recently added corporate wellness to our menu of services. The Bailey Group facilitates wellness programs for more than 20 groups, ranging from 75 employees to upwards of 6,000 employees. We strive to provide our clients with the tools they need to protect their most valuable asset – their health.

As part of our growing education in the health & wellness field, The Bailey Group has made a shift to incorporate wellness programs into our internal policy. Our participation in the President’s Challenge has prompted us to share the program with many of our groups, which has proven to start a movement towards behavior change and awareness about the importance of physical activity and preventative health. From factory workers, to company executives, to teachers, we continue to impact the daily habits and decisions for members of our client community in an effort to add years to their lives and quality to their years.

For more information visit www.mbaileygroup.com.

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Beyond Excellence (BE) is an innovative wellness company whose mission is to enhance the health and well-being of America's workforce through expert health solutions that are cost-effective, customized and yield measurable results.

Beyond Excellence is proud to launch its newest initiative BE Healthy with the President's Challenge in partnership with the President's Challenge, a program of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (PCPFS). This program will take place within corporations, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies and include group fitness classes, a wellness competition utilizing the President's Challenge, and health promotion workshops as well as one-on-one nutrition consultations for each participant. BE Healthy with the President's Challenge is designed to achieve healthy weight loss, develop muscular strength and tone, increase cardiovascular endurance, and improve eating habits and overall health. Beyond Excellence will continue to utilize the President's Challenge in its programs and is excited about this newest endeavor. For more information, please visit, http://www.beyondexcell.com/index.php.

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Bogifit (meaning boy/girl fitness) Youth Conditioning Center is a gym and team that is dedicated to the health and fitness of young people, ages 9 to 18. Bogifit offers three ways to get and stay fit; sports specific training for those that are looking to excel in a particular sport, general conditioning programs for those that are not in an organized sport but who enjoy working out, and weight management programs for those that are looking to control their weight.

Each program is customized to the client's goals and highly structured. All of the participants are encouraged to work out at least twice a week, and each session is chronicled. They then help each client take their results from Bogifit and track them in the Presidents Challenge.

To learn more about Bogifit, please visit http://www.bogifit.com/.

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The Burger King Corporation is teaming up with the President's Challenge to help America’s kids get active and stay fit.

Burger King Corporation is proud to have sponsored the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA) and the Physical Fitness Awards in 209 participating schools within 206 DMA's across the United States during the Spring of 2004. These schools provided opportunity for 65,882 badges to be awarded from the President's Challenge through the sponsorship of Burger King Corporation. In 2005, Burger King is sponsoring even more schools and providing 100,000 Presidential awards. This partnership is great way for kids to get active and stay fit, and to learn the impact exercise can have on their lives. Visit www.burgerking.com and click on “kids” to learn more.

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Cardio Tennis is a new fun, group, fitness program which gives players of all abilities a great workout. Cardio Tennis is offered in approximately 1000 public and private facilities throughout America. Participants are constantly moving in a series of high energy drills taught by a certified tennis professional. For more information, please visit www.cardiotennis.com/.

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For the third year in a row, the President’s Challenge program is pleased to partner with Carolina Turkey (now Butterball, LLC) to encourage individuals of all ages to be more active. The company is promoting the program with point-of-purchase displays, flyers with coupons and program information, and through the purchase of Presidential Active Lifestyle Awards for participants who complete the Challenge.

The Carolina Turkey President's Challenge is a program about choosing to live healthier — and finding things you really like to do. It helps you set realistic goals and encourages fitness for a lifetime. On behalf of our over 2500 employees, we are proud to be associated with this important active lifestyle program. Learn more about the partnership at http://www.carolinaturkey.presidentschallenge.org.

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Cartoon Network and Cox Communications partnered to bring the network's GET ANIMATED Tour to multiple Cox markets as part of its tour across the United States. The GET ANIMATED Tour is a pro-social, pro-lifestyle interactive program designed to motivate, energize and educate kids ages 6-11 about healthy living choices through the power of Cartoon Network's top shows, characters and brands.

At each stop of the GET ANIMATED Tour, kids have the opportunity to engage in fun physical activities that promote the message of keeping in shape. Participating kids in each Cox market are given a Fitness Passport, which allows them to keep track of physical activity goals they reach over a six-week period as they work toward earning a Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA), a feature of the Council's President's Challenge. For more information, please visit www.GetAnimated.com/.

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Cathi Watson is the CEO of Cathi Watson Studios, LTD., in Chicago,IL. She is an author, writer, speaker & the producer-host of two weekly radio shows. Cathi is the developer of the "Ageless for Life Concept" - an Anti-Aging Seminar teaching dedicated, proven methods and techniques to all who want to look and feel younger and better longer than they ever thought possible. For more information about Cathi Watson please visit www.cathiwatson.com

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CircusFit is a new and exciting national fitness program from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® that encourages America's youth to lead healthy, active lifestyles by combining the fun of circus skills with stretching, strength building and aerobic exercise. This creative and action-packed approach to physical fitness motivates kids to get a movin' and a groovin' whether in the classroom, after school or at home.

In launching CircusFit, Ringling Bros. has joined forces with the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (PCPFS) to promote physical activity across America. Schools and after-school programs are being invited to participate in CircusFit as part of their involvement in the annual President's Challenge. For more information on CircusFit visit http://www.CircusFit.com.

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Live It! is a program designed to engage and educate students in grades 4-8 on the importance of regular physical activity and healthy eating by providing activation and educational tools that will inspire them to begin and maintain a healthy and active lifestyle. The Live It! program features two student activity components:

• Step With It- for physical activity
• Fit It In - for healthy eating

As part of the Step With It portion of Live It!, students are asked to keep track of their steps each day. Participants of the program, developed by Coca-Cola and the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE), are provided with a "stepometer," a small pedometer, that tracks the number of steps they take. Students are encouraged to earn the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award from the President's Challenge as part of this program. As of April 2006, Live It!TM has reached over 2 million students and teachers during the school year. Those students are enrolled in over 6400 schools across all 50 states, Canada, and the Caribbean.

For more information on how to get your school involved please visit http://www.liveitprogram.com.

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Continuing Fitness has partnered with the President's Challenge to provide a comprehensive fitness and exercise program for Seniors right in the comfort of your own home or at a fitness facility. Our products, including the Resistance Chair Exercise System are specifically tailored to meet the needs of fitness-conscious mature adults, we also provide classroom style video programming which is easy to follow and will allow you to participate in the 8 week Active Lifestyle program and become eligible for an Active Lifestyle Award. We focus on improving the following four key areas of a fitness plan: Endurance, Strength (Resistance Training), Flexibility and Stretching, and Balance. For more information please visit the Continuing Fitness website at www.continuingfitness.com.

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CATCH (Coordinated Approach To Child Health) is a Coordinated School Health Program designed to promote physical activity, healthy food choices, and prevent tobacco use in elementary school-aged children. By teaching children that eating healthy and being physically active every day can be FUN, the CATCH Program has proved that establishing healthy habits in childhood can promote behavior changes that carry into adulthood.

FlagHouse, Inc., the publisher of the CATCH curriculum, is extremely proud to partner with the President's Challenge, and to incorporate the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award into the CATCH Program.

To learn more about CATCH log on tohttp://www.catchinfo.org or call 800-793-7900. Also visit the CATCH Research Team at http://www.catchtexas.org to view research support documents.

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Diane Sabba helps, inspires and motivates people to make positive changes and live healthy, balanced lives. While emphasizing exercise programs for Asthmatic Children, she speaks about overcoming adversities and the importance of physical activity. She empathizes with young girls and promotes their participation in physical activity, since she witnessed the lack of girls’ sports when she was growing up. Diane shares the gift of Photography to be used as a catalyst when she captures the emotions, struggles and determination of people attaining their goals as they celebrate their lives participating in Marathons, Kids Runs and Wheelchair and Disabled races.

For more information about Diane Sabba visit http://www.dianesabba.com/.

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The Dow Chemical Company partnered with the President's Challenge as a complementary support option for employees striving to be regularly active. Perhaps even more importantly, The President's Challenge provides an avenue for Dow employees to encourage their family, friends and neighbors around the country to be more active. This helps to meet Dow's commitment to both personal and community good health.

With annual sales of $54 billion and 46,000 employees worldwide, Dow is a diversified chemical company that combines the power of science and technology with the "Human Element" to constantly improve what is essential to human progress. The Company delivers a broad range of products and services to customers in around 160 countries, connecting chemistry and innovation with the principles of sustainability to help provide everything from fresh water, food and pharmaceuticals to paints, packaging and personal care products. For more information visit www.dow.com.

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Energy Friends™ has been developed to instruct young children (3-6 yrs) on the importance of maintaining physical fitness and making healthy lifestyle choices. That alone is a great goal, but our main focus is to teach kids that these things can be achieved while having fun. Unfortunately obesity and childhood diabetes have reached an all-time high. These kinds of problems won't fix themselves, but they can be prevented.

Studies show that participating in an active lifestyle and learning essential skills, such as healthy eating, can significantly extend the life of an individual. Energy Friends™ is designed to teach some of these important fundamental lessons. The faster a child can learn a routine and work that routine into their lifestyle, the better. At Energy Friends™ our goal is to empower children by teaching them how to make positive, healthy choices so they feel good both physically and mentally.

Energy Friends is a 40 minute interactive program that will empower children as young as 3-yrs-old to stay active, try new and healthy foods, and understand the importance of moderation and balance. After exercising and dancing with the program or music CD, we encourage you to become an “Energy Friend” by logging onto http://www.presidentschallenge.org/ and posting your activity online (Sign on under Energy Friends Group # 60273)

Remember what the Energy Friends say, “Anything that gets you moving is exercise!” So get moving and log your success so we know how well you’re doing!

For more information on Energy Friends and to learn more about your favorite characters, please check out our site at http://www.energyfriends.org/

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Team ESPN, the corporate outreach program for ESPN, Inc., introduces a multi-faceted outreach program designed to make a difference in our world and our communities. Fans helping fans. One of these initiatives is ESPN Play Your Way, developed in conjunction with DisneyHand, the worldwide outreach program for the Walt Disney Corporation. ESPN Play Your Way is a youth fitness program designed to encourage kids, ages 7-12, to get fit and remain physically active. To do what they do best: be creative and have fun. We want kids to take charge of their own health and fitness. It's an outreach program that inspires them to be physically active by making up their own physically active games and writing their own rules. ESPN Play Your Way is a unique program. It's whatever kids want it to be. It's all up to them and wherever their imagination takes them. Anything can be fun. We just kind of lead them in the right direction. To learn more please visitwww.espnplayyourway.com.

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FitSense, a division of FitLinxx, develops the technology to help individuals become more active. FitSense products motivate individuals of all ages and activity levels to start, continue, and maintain an active and healthy lifestyle. Founded on the principles behind behavioral change research, the technology that FitSense provides is both easy to use and affordable.

FitSense can assist in the creation of activity programming or can take any existing program to the next level. How? By increasing exercise adherence and improving outcomes through behavior modification, as well as accountability. The automatic capture of data and real-time feedback creates participant awareness of progress toward their individual goals. Personalized dashboards displaying progress and creating “moments of pride” in turn sustain motivation and consistent activity.

FitSense offers both an in-facility system that monitors equipment usage, as well as a personal activity monitor, the ActiPed™, that accurately tracks activity anytime, anywhere, from home or on the go!

With a robust worldwide partner network, FitSense has enhanced thousands of programs for hundreds of thousands of individuals. Our partners include: YMCAs, National Jewish Research & Medical Center, American Specialty Health, GlobalFit the Boston Red Sox, and more … We will be working with our partners to offer the President’s Challenge and Active Lifestyle Awards as part of their programs.

For more information, please visit us at www.fitsense.com.

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Larkinetics® developed the Fit Simply™ fitness initiative and has partnered with the President's Challenge to help Americans of all ages make being active part of their everyday lives. Fit Simply™ involves exercises that can be practiced anytime, anywhere and without any equipment for even the busiest person. There are simple activities for traveling, at your desk, during errands, chores and even while watching TV. Fit Simply™ involves Functional Fitness training to help both movement educators and the average person focus on the fundamentals of efficient movement inherent in sports, fitness, Pilates, yoga, martial arts, dance, therapy and stress management. The benefits are a strong, flexible body that is resilient to stress and aging with better health overall.

Fit Simply™ also created an easy, non-competitive Creative Movement For Children's program that can be implemented by the classroom teacher, parent, child care provider, therapist or movement educator. It is a simple movement-linked learning system with an emphasis on a movement vocabulary that promotes physical activity in combination with academic learning. Children discover movement, language, thoughts and imagination wherever they are already learning, filling the gap left by fewer phys ed classes. Some of the activities correspond to subjects such as science, arithmetic, vocabulary, anatomy, geometry and story telling. This movement approach is more scientific because it teaches problem solving and creative expression. Children learn how to create healthy fitness habits for a lifetime while experiencing confidence and physical development through the artistry, inspiration and joy of movement. For more information, please visit http://www.fitsimply.com/.

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Cathy Serif, Nutritionist, Fitness Coach, and Founder of Fitness In Balance, Inc., is the Creator of the Balanced Training Boot Camp Experience, an evolutionary program where fitness isn’t simply about transforming your physical body, it’s about the transformation of your lifestyle.

The Balanced Training Boot Camp Experience is an outdoor physical conditioning program that extends beyond the traditional workout to provide an experience in fitness that promotes balanced nutrition, fosters camaraderie, and includes events and excursions designed to stimulate a healthy and fit lifestyle.

As part of our on-going mission to lead communities and individuals in a call to action to get healthy, fit, and strong, the Balanced Training Boot Camp Experience is proud to launch, “Inspire the Valley to Fitness”, a valley-wide initiative designed to bring awareness, activity, and education to the residents of the Coachella Valley in Southern California. As an Advocate of the President’s Challenge, and because we believe that everyone is capable of realizing their true fitness potential, we will be enhancing this community initiative with the President’s Challenge interactive website to encourage, motivate, and inspire, the valley to fitness.

To learn more about Cathy and the Balanced Training Boot Camp Experience or to explore an opportunity to license this innovative program in your area, visit Cathy at http://www.btbc.tv or call 760-219-5245.

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A complete life changing system, that will help you adjust to a life style that is right for a healthier more active you.

Balance walking includes a common sense approach that has been proven over time with today’s technology. Balance Walking is a fit for life program that can be done in minutes per day. More importantly becomes part of a balanced life style for the rest of your life.

Benefits of Balance Walking:

• Burns up to 50% more calories than traditional walking
• Strengthens core muscles – toning abs, buttocks, and back muscles
• Reduces stress to knees, hips and back up to 30%
• Increases strength and endurance
• Enhances cardiovascular performance up to 22%
• Improves posture and body alignment
• Relieves pain and tension to neck, shoulders and back
• Connects mind, body & spirit and promotes a positive, healthy lifestyles
• Increases circulation in feet and legs
• Improves respiration
• Activates foot reflexology zones
• May improve or reduce varicose veins
• Reduces appearance of cellulite
• Improves balance and performance
• Reduce weight
• Reduce tension
• Improve overall health and fitness
• Look and feel years younger

Foot Solutions is a proud member of the Presidents Challenge Physical Activity and Fitness Awards program. Foot Solutions will sponsor the Balance Walking program and will promote the Presidents Challenge program through all of its locations and hundreds of trained Balance Walking coaches located across the country.

To find out more information about Balance Walking Way and the Foot Solutions free introduction classes located across the country and instructional DVDs. Visit www.balancewalking.com or www.footsolutions.com.

Foot Solutions has Balance Walking activities for all ages and groups including Corporate Health and Wellness programs.

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GE Energy partnered with the President’s Challenge to encourage their employees to be more active and healthy. As part of this program GE Energy Health Services developed a web-based computer application program called the 5-10-25 Challenge. The program guides and coaches individuals to eat at least 5 servings of fruits and vegetables daily, walk 10,000 steps and maintain a body mass index of less than 25. The results to date suggest that inter and intranet tools may have a beneficial role for large employers attempting to maintain and improve the health of the workforce.

GE Energy has about 40,000 employees around the world, with about 22,000 of this number being in the United States. The company designs and manufactures wind, water, gas, and steam turbines that generate rotational and electric power. In addition, GE Energy builds electrical generators, nuclear power plants, photovoltaic panels, electrical controls, anti-pollution, and monitoring devices. For more information visit www.geenergy.com.

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The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (PCPFS) and the General Mills Foundation are pleased to announce a new opportunity for Action for Healthy Kids state coordinators to encourage low socio-economic status schools (SES) to participate in the President's Challenge Physical Activity and Fitness Awards Program and be recognized as "The General Mills' Challenge Schools." To learn more please download the application form or visit the President's Challenge Website. www.presidentschallenge.org.

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General Mills Champions is a comprehensive program designed to instill good nutrition and fitness habits among our nation’s youth, a long-term goal that continues the work of the program’s three partners, which include the American Dietetic Association, General Mills, and the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

General Mills Champions calls on community groups and schools to champion the future health of our young people by focusing on youth fitness and nutrition programs that can have life-long impact. The intention is to build local connections and, most importantly, to help instill good, healthy lifestyle habits that will last a lifetime for America’s kids. Over the past three years, General Mills Champions has awarded over $1,000,000 in grants to schools and community organizations ACROSS THE COUNTRY that foster programs to encourage youth nutrition and fitness.

General Mills has also partnered with the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, teaming up to improve the fitness level of more than 20,000 Minneapolis Public School students in 65 participating schools with the Presidential Active Lifestyle Awards annually. At the end of the six-week program, participating students are recognized with badges and certificates for completing 60 minutes of physical activity a day for five days each week.

For more information you can visit www.generalmills.com/foundation.

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Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin and Metropolitan Chicago Present The Good Life Wellness Program

The Goodwill Industries Good Life Wellness Program is proud to partner with the President’s Challenge. In conjunction with our corporate wellness program, this challenge is part of an organization-wide movement towards better health. With programs ranging from healthy nutrition and fitness to smoking secession and onsite weight loss programs, the goal is to improve overall wellness of employees.

Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin and Metropolitan Chicago has the mission of provide training, employment and supportive services for people with disabilities or disadvantages who seek greater independence. Through these programs and services, Goodwill is able to help people achieve independence through the power of work. For more information on Goodwill, please visit our websites at www.goodwillsew.com or www.goodwillchicago.com.


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Gopher is excited to launch the Active and Healthy Schools^TMProgram in partnership with the President's Challenge, a program of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (PCPFS). The Active and Healthy Schools^TM Program is developed under the guidance of Dr. Robert Pangrazi, author of Dynamic Physical Education, longtime professor at Arizona State, and PCPFS Science Board Member. This Program is designed to help schools across the nation develop and implement comprehensive Wellness Policies that truly improve the health of America's youth.

The first element of the Program will be the release of the Active and Healthy Schools^TM Checklist. Schools will be able to use this Checklist as the foundation for their Wellness Policy. The Checklist offers innovative ideas for how schools can enable high-quality physical activity for students throughout the day, and create an environment that teaches and encourages students to enjoy a lifetime of nutritious eating. Students will be able to track their physical activity through the free interactive Presidential Active Lifestyle Program at http://www.presidentschallenge.org.

Visit http://www.gophersport.com to learn more about Gopher and to view the the Active and Healthy Schools^TM Checklist.! (available Jan '06)

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The Harlem Globetrotters have teamed up with the President's Challenge and the U.S. Department of Education during the team's 2006 North American Tour to promote healthy and fit lifestyles through physical activity and character education. Entering their 80th consecutive season in 2006, the Globetrotters are playing in nearly 200 cities and visiting over 200 elementary schools across the United States and Canada. With the CHEER Challenge the Globetrotters are encouraging students to be physically active for at least 60 minutes every day and will encourage them to earn the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award. For updated information visit http://www.harlemglobetrotters.com

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The mission of Hawaii Sports Zone d/b/a i9 Sports is to provide the most well-organized, entertaining, and educational sports program for Amateur Athletes of all ages.

We believe that sports should be a fun, safe experience where children can learn basic athletic skills and sportsmanship, build friendships, and increase their self-esteem. With our emphasis on fun, instruction and inclusiveness, everyone plays and everyone is made to feel like a winner, regardless of talent level.

Hawaii Sports Zone d/b/a i9 Sports provides leagues, camps, clinics, and tournaments in three youth sports. Flag Football, Basketball, and Soccer are the primary sports and are open to Boys and Girls ages 6-14. Participation and equal playing time are emphasized for all players in the league regardless of skill level.

For more information please visit http://www.i9sports.com/intro.asp

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Health IQ is partnering with the President’s Challenge to encourage and motivate children and adults to improve their Physical Health Intelligence™. By successfully increasing their Physical Health Intelligence through lifestyle change, students from nursery through high school and adults can receive the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award. Health IQ has been visiting schools, corporate offices, and communities promoting wellness through a systems approach, educating individuals on how to evaluate their lifestyle from the 5 areas of health, implementing successful strategies that work and guiding them to success. Physical Health IQ promotes 60 minutes of exercise 5 times a week, includes fusion and yoga workouts as a way to cope with stress, encourages organic and healthy food choices, educates about living green to promote health and discusses the importance of daily health habits, health beliefs, self evaluation and coping effectively with life by focusing on preventative health and living green.

Health Intelligence™ is a new wellness model to health promotion that integrates physical health, psychological health, social health, spiritual health and environmental health to achieve a healthy lifestyle. Health IQ is a multidimensional, integrative, humanistic program that teaches individuals how to take control of their life, provides strategies for success, and tools to implement into their day that creates a healthy lifestyle. The model of the 5 areas of health to achieve wellness is the secret to success.

Health IQ was established to provide education to individuals, utilizing a comprehensive scientifically based model that can be implemented into their lifestyle to create long term building blocks and solutions to create successful change using fun and interactive programming, valuable tools, materials, workshops, initiatives and media work.

• Students can take the Health IQ Quiz®, Play the Health IQ Game®, Learn about physical health, learn ways to use physical activity to manage stress, and health habits to reach their body-vision and promote wellness through fun and interactive programming.
• Teachers can receive assessment tools, activity calendars, the Health IQ Quiz, curriculum and programs to implement into their school
• Corporate Health IQ can be achieved through health assessments, work place initiatives, wellness incentives, education and programs.
• Organizations and communities can promote wellness by inviting Health IQ to provide education, programs, and materials to enhance lifestyle.

Health IQ was developed by Dr. Amora Rachelle. To take the Health IQ Questionnaire, listen to Radio Programming to learn strategies to achieve the President’s Challenge or to view this website and bring Health IQ into your community, visit http://www.healthiqs.com. For more information on how your school, organization, corporation, or district can get involved email the PresidentsChallenge@healthiqs.com.

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Hershey has sponsored Hershey's Track and Field Games for 30 years, introducing more than 400,000 children in 3,000 communities across the U.S. and Canada to the fun and rewards of physical fitness.

The program began in 1975 as a local playground event in Charleston, West Virginia. Today, it's the largest youth sports program of its kind in North America. The program encourages youth physical fitness through basic running, jumping and throwing events.

Each year, 500 children receive an all-expense-paid trip to the North American Final, held in Hershey, Pa. In addition to participating in the Final, these children have plenty of time for fun, including a tour of a chocolate factory and a day at Hersheypark amusement complex.

For more information visit http://www.thehersheycompany.com/making/youth-fitness.asp.

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Jaime Brenkus has dedicated his life to helping individuals, especially the deconditioned, live a healthier lifestyle by proper nutrition and timely fitness programs. Mr. Brenkus designed the very popular, million selling, 8 MINUTE ABS videos and the award winning Kathy Ireland videos.

Certified by the American College of Sports Medicine, Brenkus has partnered with Hoggan Health in placing the uniquely designed fitness line, Hoggan SPRINT CIRCUIT, into schools and various vertical distribution outlets including the military, apartments, corporations, and health clubs.

The SPRINT KIDS program is designed with 5-7 Hoggan SPRINT CIRCUIT stations and a 10 week curriculum course that will feature Behavior Modification, Nutrition and Exercise, to address the inactivity and poor nutritional habits of kids grades 4 -12.

Mr. Brenkus and Hoggan Health are offering the “Club in a Club” systematic center for health clubs that presents the DR. SMOOTHIE Energy Station and the Hoggan SPRINT CIRCUIT fitness line.

Jaime Brenkus Contact
Telephone: 440-205-9840
Email: tjbrenkus@aol.com

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The Home Depot Building Better Health Worksite Wellness Program is utilizing the President's Challenge Awards Program as one way of demonstrating a core company value: to take care of its associates. Home Depot also takes great pleasure in supporting an effort championed by President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports President's Council member; 2000 Olympic gold medallist; and Home Depot associate, Derek Parra. Building Better Health's goal is to make every associate aware of the Challenge and lead them to a more active and healthy lifestyle to look and feel their best. Each site's Wellness Representative has been instructed to mark off a mile long strip in or around the store and promote it as the "Home Depot Gold Medal Mile." Associates are encouraged to walk the mile to "warm up to work" and track it on their Challenge log sheet. Having a "Home Depot Gold Medal Mile" is one of the requirements for a location to be recognized internally as a "Gold Medal Worksite." Building Better Health encourages all associates to increase their physical activity by promoting the program in activity kits, the intranet, on TV slides in all Home Depot stores, and in the company wide newspaper, "Doings at the Depot." In 2004 approximately 24,000 Home Depot employes received Presidential recognition through this program.

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HOPSports became a proud partner with the President's Challenge during the 50th Anniversary celebration of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sport. HOPSports has joined with the PCPFS and the Department of Health and Human Services in the development of a series of entertaining lessons to educate children about the components of physical activity by promoting the DHHS and Ad Council Campaign "Get Out and Play". The HOPSports content includes nutrition education, social messaging and health awareness to provide the important components that balance a physically active lifestyle.

The HOPSports Training System provides a virtual textbook for the physical education class encouraging physical activity through a system that teaches in the way today's youth learn. A multi-media, technology driven, research supported platform delivers dynamic content to the classroom, after school program, or youth facility. Every student is able to find something appealing in the HOPSports video library which delivers a robust array of content. Videos on the wall, exciting music, variety of choice drive the HOPSports Training System's exciting, entertaining and fun content. For more information, please visit: www.hopsports.com .

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U.S Secret Service Veteran Jeff Hopeck created a 60-day Program that is helping people live happier, healthier lives. The SECRET WEAPON™ Program helps you FEEL GREAT in the following areas of your life:

1. Eating Smarter.
2. Exercising More Effectively.
3. PERSONAL GROWTH! ( feel great on the inside)

It’s a chart that you hang on your wall, and you just complete the tasks that Jeff gives you each day! Then, you check off the day and move on to the next. It’s FUN, INTERACTIVE, and SIMPLE TO FOLLOW!

“Small habits, when added all together, bring HUGE RESULTS!”

Jeff Hopeck currently runs a Program called Kids Can Do It!™ to spread the word of The President’s Challenge Program into communities throughout Atlanta, Georgia. Jeff encourages Kids AND Adults to stay active and KEEP MOVING so they can feel GREAT every single day!

Throughout 2008 jeffHopeck.com has set its goals at signing up 1,000,000 people for the President’s Challenge Program! “It’s a huge number, but we set our standards high in everything we do” says Jeff Hopeck.

Working with the President’s Challenge Program has been an outstanding experience, and we intend on working very closely together in 2008 to help people realize that they CAN DO IT!

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Beautiful Confident Happy

Consistent with its core values in assisting young women to "strive to reach their potential every day," LDS IMAGE is determined to encourage, strengthen, and fortify individual perfection encompassing all aspects and stages of life. A faith-based company, LDS IMAGE invites and welcomes participation from girls of all faiths in its educational, exciting, and uplifting programs. The promise extended is that through participation one will notice the flowering of a more beautiful, confident, and happy person.

Physical Activity plays a fundamental role in every part of life. As part of the President's Challenge Advocate partnership, LDS IMAGE welcomes the opportunity to further its outreach by:

* Offering free Get Fit! Handbook with every purchase made through our online CATALOG, free PALA and Presidential Challenge awards, and promotional President's Challenge gifts.

* Increasing awareness of the President's Challenge program alongside health & fitness awareness through our online magazine and within communities.

* Campaigning to establish habits that meet the daily needs of health and fitness in the teenage years.

* Endorsing lifetime physical activity through sports and outdoor adventures.

Please learn more at http://www.ldsimage.org/splash.asp.

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Kellogg’s initiated the “Go the Distance” program in order to encourage employees to increase their cardiovascular output. The 10 week exercise program incorporated all 30 external locations. Each location reported the amount of participation and kept track of miles logged which served as a measuring stick for a competition between locations.

After completing the “Go the Distance” program the employees are encouraged to take part in the President’s Challenge. The Kellogg’s group includes participants in the Active Lifestyle, Presidential Champions and the Presidential Performance programs. These programs are just part of the ways in which the Kellogg Company is promoting a healthier work environment.

For more information about Kellogg’s or the “Go the Distance” program visit www.kelloggs.com.

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Kids Under Construction is a fitness program designed to reach adolescent children ages 7 – 15 years old to promote healthy values concerning food and exercise to encourage a lifestyle change. The program reaches out to children who are overweight as well as those who wish to stay fit but do not feel comfortable participating in organized sports. The environment is non-competitive and non-threatening which helps develop and maintain realistic personal fitness goals. We offer nutrition recommendations to encourage healthy food choices, various workout options to encourage daily exercise and motivational discussions to take the focus off what the scale says and encourage a strong, positive self-image on the inside to achieve a healthy outcome.

As an advocate of the President’s Challenge, Kids Under Construction will continue to educate families of the importance of a healthy lifestyle through healthy eating and daily exercise. For additional information, please visit our website at www.kims-kidsunderconstruction.com.

In addition to the fitness program, owner and founder, Kimberly Nix, hosts a weekly on-line radio program discussing various topics pertaining to youth fitness. You will find interactive literary conversations, riveting guest speakers and nutrition information and recipes from our Kids in the Kitchen segment. To access the live program each week or listen to a previously aired program, visit our webpage at www.blogtalkradio.com/kidsunderconstruction.

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L & T Health and Fitness (L&T) is an established national provider of award-winning, cost-effective fitness and health promotion programs. For over 21 years, L & T has been helping companies lower health care costs, improve moral and maximize performance. L & T also offers a variety of programs that promote healthy and safe lifestyles, behavior modification, personal resilience, and an overall sense of well-being. These services vary according to the client's needs and interests and include health education seminars, weight management, health risk appraisals; blood pressure, body composition, cholesterol, PSA and osteoporosis screenings; resting metabolic rate (RMR) measurement, and fun, interactive and educational health fairs.

L & T has incorporated the President's Challenge as part of its incentive and motivational programming to encourage long-term participation in health and fitness endeavors. L & T fitness/wellness center members are using the Active Lifestyle program to log their activity, track their progress and challenge themselves to reach new health and fitness goals. For more information on L&T Health and Fitness please visit http://www.ltwell.com/.

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Marjie Gilliam's Custom Fitness Personal Training Services (CFPTS) is a business dedicated to assisting those interested in developing healthier lifestyle habits. CFPTS provides guidance and support with a positive and practical approach through educational health and fitness information, exercise programs and training. Consulting, workout ideas, exercise tips, articles and timely information are available. Please visit http://www.ohtrainer.com/.

CFPTS supports the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and President’s Challenge concept that physical activity can be a fun and manageable part of everyday life for individuals of all ages and abilities. We are all unique in our goals, likes and dislikes, and what we are looking for when it comes to health and fitness. Regardless of your current level of exercise experience, you can join the thousands of people who have gone from inactivity to an active lifestyle, increasing strength, flexibility, energy levels, and cardiovascular fitness.

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Miss Amy Kids Fitness Rock & Roll™ is a program that incorporates music and movement to encourage children ages 2-8 to stay active and build a strong foundation of fitness for life.

As a President’s Challenge Advocate Miss Amy® brings awareness to families with young children the importance of fitness, with the goal of motivating them to earn the President’s Active Lifestyle Award (PALA). To access music, videos and information go to http://www.MissAmyKids.com.

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Nerdhealth™ is a company devoted to making children and adults all over the world more aware of healthy eating, healthy cooking and physical fitness. There is an increase in childhood obesity and a decrease in the physical fitness of our children both in the United States and throughout the world.

Nerdel™ and the Nerdhealth™ Team will focus their efforts on educating the children of the United States and the world about healthy nutrition and physical activity. Through a multimedia approach with music, books, games, internet/online edutainment, cartoons and animation and a video series, Nerdel™ and the Nerdhealth™ Team will be able to reach the kids of the world, in a media form that they can relate to.

Nerdel™ and The Nerdhealth™ Team of experts have designed an approach to healthy nutrition and physical activity that is cool and hip to follow. Kids and their parents can log on to www.Nerdhealth.com to check out the Nerdhealth News. Here they can learn about nutrition, read about sports, get some great healthy recipes and stay up to date on lots of cool information. They can also watch some great videos and submit and upload their own family friendly cooking, fitness and sports videos so they can show how they are participating in the President’s Challenge.

Nerdel™ and The Nerdhealth™ Team are dedicated to making a present and future world of healthier children and adults. Join them on their healthy mission.

Visit Nerdel™ and his team at http://www.www.Nerdhealth.com.

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Outdoor Adventures Magazine takes great pleasure in supporting an effort championed by the President's Challenge towards a healthy life style.

At OAM, our love of the outdoors is a serious way of life for many of us. Keeping in mind our activities can be a fun and a manageable part of everyday life for families and individuals of all ages and abilities. The Fitness Challenge lines up with our philosophy of health and wellness being that if you want to continue to enjoy the activities you love in God’s great outdoors you have to maintain as a way of life a healthy body, spirit, and mind

Founded in 1998 Outdoor Adventures Ministry Inc. was created to reach out to the outdoor enthusiasts with the love of Christ within the diverse areas of outdoor activates many of us enjoy. In 2006 the ministry had grown to launch as its official online publication Outdoor Adventures MagazineTM which has become a premier source of articles and entertainment from a faith based perspective globally. Our entertaining, thought provoking, informational along with the health and wellness articles are written by some of the top names in their respected fields. This has gained us a large readership from both the faith based community, and non-faith based community.

Check us out at www.oammagazine.com.

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Always Play Fair is dedicated to expanding the message of sportsmanship and fair play through the development of fun board games, hip merchandise, youth sportswear, interactive computer games and lessons taught by their mascot, Packy PlayFairT.

Their vision is to make sportsmanship, fair play and good behavior as fundamental to raising successful members of society as the three R's "Reading, 'Riting and 'Rithmetic." Packy PlayFairT is proud to partner with the President's Challenge to encourage youth to Follow the rules, Always try your best, Include everyone, and Respect your opponent. For more information please visit http://www.packyplayfair.com.

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Pitney Bowes provides office technologies and services that help companies gain efficiencies and capitalize on opportunities. In June 2004 Pitney Bowes teamed up with the President's Challenge to offer "Get Movin PB National". As part of the Pitney Bowes Health Care University this program offered Pitney Bowes employees the opportunity to earn the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA) for being physically active on a regular basis. A special web portal was developed where employees could register for the Challenge and be automatically recognized as a Pitney Bowes employee. For more information about this program visit http://pitneybowes.presidentschallenge.org/ or download the information sheet.

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The Powergrid Fitness Challenge is a national campaign to introduce Americans to a novel technology that allows people to get exercise while they play their favorite video games. Powergrid Fitness has developed innovative technology that requires the use of large muscle groups to control the on-screen action in your favorite video games. The PCPFS offers awards to American's that have successfully adopted active lifestyles through the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award and Presidential Champion programs of the President's Challenge. Now, with Powergrid Fitness's innovative award winning Kilowatt and Exer-station game controllers, American's can play video games to help meet their daily activity goals and earn these awards. For more information please visit http://www.powergridfitness.com.

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Quick Fit Products, LLC is dedicated to helping inactive people realize the overall health benefits of exercise through an easy, daily 15-minute exercise program. Our Quick Fit program of aerobic activity, strengthening exercises and stretching can be done at home or at work, and is designed to get people moving toward a healthier life. This exercise program is demonstrated in seminars by the author, Rick Bradley, in his book and on his DVD. It is simple and safe and can be done by people of all ages.

Rewards and recognition also encourages successful behavior change. The Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA) program provides Quick Fit exercisers with the ability to track their progress and receive recognition when they reach their physical activity goals. Through our partnership with the President's Council, Quick Fit Products, LLC will get people moving - one small step at a time - toward a healthier life. For more information on Quick Fit Products, please visit us at http://www.tryquickfit.com.

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Take the Scooby Snacks "Get out and Doo" President's Challenge. See all the fun that you and your dog can have when Scooby Snacks are on the line. As part of this program Scooby Snacks is encouraging all Americans to get out and be active because staying active with your dog has never been more fun or rewarding. Participants are encouraged to earn the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award by being active with their dog. For more information visit http://www.rogsruvem.com.

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The SECRET WEAPON, jr. Program is the kids version of Jeff Hopeck's SECRET WEAPON 60-day Program. In the SECRET WEAPON, jr., Jeff uses a very FUN and INTERACTIVE approach to teach kids all about eating properly, exercising effectively, healthy habits. and most important: How to take these principles and spread them into their communities!

In 2008, Jeff Hopeck, founder of the SECRET WEAPON, jr. Program, is setting out to sign 1 million kids up for The President's Challenge Physical Activity and Fitness program! "It's a goal that we feel is very attainable, and we are calling on the community and the media to help us reach out to our kids and help fight childhood obesity," says Hopeck.

"We are excited about working with The President's Challenge Program in 2008, and look forward to fighting childhood obesity together. Our approach is this: SMALL HABITS. HUGE RESULTS!" says Hopeck.

For more information about The SECRET WEAPON, jr. Program and to partner with Jeff to help kids across America, visit www.jeffhopeck.com.

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TheSmartCalorie.com is proud to be a member of the President's Challenge. We offer a free service ( http://www.thesmartcalorie.com/) aiming to provide users with mobile access to nutrition information in order to empower them to make smart, healthy eating decisions on the go. The Smart Calorie is more than just another fitness website. It's a personalized tool designed to help users reach nutritional and fitness goals by educating them and putting them in charge of their health. Using an intuitive database system, users are provided with real-time nutritional information regarding restaurant menu items - all tailored to help them reach their wellness goals. Furthermore, users can track changes in weight, receive text messages reminding them to choose healthy meals and snacks, track fitness activities and receive targeted news feeds addressing the issues most important to them.

We at The Smart Calorie believe that it will take more than one fitness web site or fad diet to make a change in the wellness trends in America. We believe that if we work together on our goals we will see long-lasting, more immediate results. Please visit http://www.thesmartcalorie.com/ to sign up for your free account and begin taking steps to a healthier you right away!

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Stephanie Oakes has dedicated her life to educating consumers around the world on the benefits of being healthy and fit. Stephanie's lifestyle and health/fitness counseling is widely sought after by thousands especially busy moms who want to fit fitness into their already hectic lifestyles. As a working mother of two she practices what she preaches.

Stephanie focuses on how to recover physical fitness after pregnancy, how to plan an exercise regime while traveling away from home on business or pleasure, or reporting on the benefits of kids and exercise - to name a few. For more information on Stephanie Oakes please visit http://www.stephanieoakes.com.

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Presented by TracFone® and WalMart®, a team of 12 walkers are making a coast-to-coast journey across the country. As part of this journey the walkers will be visiting local communities and WalMart® stores along the way while spreading the word about all the benefits of walking. Steps Across America also encourages all Americans to take the President's Challenge and earn a Presidential Active Lifestyle Award. For more information on the Sportline® Steps Across America you can visit http://www.stepsacross.com.

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SSD Company Ltd. was founded in 1995 with a vision of bringing innovative or new-generation products into the world. In fact, our company name "Shinsedai" means "new generation" in English. SSD has remained faithful to its original founding spirit, and has consistently developed new products and new element technologies that possess both immediate as well as potential value. SSD's XaviXTechnology(TM) combines leading-edge human interface sensors, including optical sensor and infra-red, to allow any television to respond directly to a user's actions. XaviX has unveiled its line of interactive sports games, XaviXGames(TM), which integrates the thrill of advanced technology with the physical interaction of American pastimes like baseball, golf, bowling, fishing and tennis.

For more information visit http://www.xavix.com/.

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Stay Fit Seniors™ is an innovative new fitness and healthcare program that combines chiropractic care with circuit training on state-of-the-art exercise equipment in a supervised 30-minute workout for seniors 60+. Developed and refined over a period of three years by Drs. Roger Russo and Anthony Lauro, Stay Fit Seniors ™ addresses the unmet need for an exercise program and facility geared exclusively for seniors. The Stay Fit Seniors™ program is endorsed and promoted by fitness pioneer, Jack LaLanne. Jack LaLanne is a 2007 Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Each Stay Fit Seniors™ member is encouraged to chart their minutes of exercise and activity on the Presidents Challenge Program website and/or paper log. Healthcare consumers as well as chiropractors interested in learning more about Stay Fit Seniors ™ can visit http://www.stayfitseniorsforlife.com or call 1-866-4STAYFIT.

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StrengthCondition.com, LLC is an innovative company that has taken a fun and challenging approach to educating children and adults on the benefits of a strong and active life style. Utilizing years of experience Mark Salandra (President) has volunteered his time and knowledge to help educate children on how to build strong healthy bodies. We promote High School Powerlifting contests in the state of New Jersey to give children a way to develop their strength skills and allow them to set goals and work towards achieving these goals. It is our passion that drives us to educate each individual on the benefits of a healthy life style.

Our Mission at StrengthCondition.com, LLC is to utilize multiple communication paths to educate the population on the benefits of Strength & Conditioning for all ages from children to adults. Our Goal is to demonstrate how Strength & Conditioning is fun and challenging while allowing every individual the potential to reach their highest physical and mental capabilities. Our Hope is to create life changing habits that will positively affect every part of an individual’s life including creating a healthier more positive and confident person that reaches and achieves their personal goals in life.

To learn more about StrengthCondition.com, LLC and how you can get started today working towards a healthier life style please visit http://www.strengthcondition.com/.

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The First Step to Active Health® provides an evidence-based, progressive physical activity program for older adults. The goal of the program is to improve health and functional ability, to promote independence, and to help prevent chronic disease and disability in adults over age 50. The program includes a step-by-step approach to improve physical abilities with a variety of simple activities, including cardio/aerobic, flexibility, strength, and balance activities. The First Step to Active Health patient education kit was developed by THERA-BAND® products as part of the Active Aging Toolkit, which was designed to assist healthcare providers in prescribing physical activity programs for their patients. The Toolkit was developed in support of the National Blueprint to Increase Physical Activity Among Adults Aged 50 and Older with input and review from Educational Partners including the AAP, ACSM, AGS, AAFP, and APTA.

By providing motivational awards and activity logs, The Presidents Challenge is an important Educational Partner in the Active Aging Toolkit and First Step to Active Health.

For more information on the First Step program or the Active Aging Toolkit, http://www.FirstSteptoActiveHealth.com.

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TOTAL GOLF ADVENTURES (TGA) is a national golf program that is the only at-school, after school, golf enrichment program in the country and a leading initiative to grow junior golf. TGA's program, available for children in grades K-8, works to develop a child's passion for the game of golf through a curriculum that expands and improves their motor skills and coordination, encourages their advancement, and builds their confidence and self-esteem. TGA has partnered with the President's Council on Physical Fitness to encourage kids to get healthy and physically fit through golf, a sport which is ideal for any fitness level. Children who play golf will have the benefits of stretching their muscles, developing muscle memory and gaining aerobic exercise by walking a course. In addition to the physical benefits, golf develops mental skills and life values such as sportsmanship, respect, commitment, and honesty.

TGA supports and encourages children to be active and participate in after school programs that encourage health and well being. For more information, visit:http://www.totalgolfadventures.com

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Trek Bicycles has been an important contributor and supporter of the President's Challenge program and the Web site - creating a special cycling section on the Web site, developing the Get It In Gear program, and serving as a partner in the Wisconsin Governor's Challenge. Trek was also instrumental in the development of the President's Challenge website by serving as a pilot program and having over 800 employees take part in the Active Lifestyle and Presidential Champions programs.
Visit www.trekbikes.com.

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At Tristar Martial Arts Academy, we want our students to achieve the very best, not just in karate, but in their everyday lives. Advocating a healthy and active lifestyle, students gain confidence in themselves and along with an effective form of self defense, called Taijutsu, Tristar instills in its students other important life skills such as Respect, Focus, and Self-Discipline.

By working with The PCPFS/President's Challenge we hope to use its program to encourage and reinforce a healthy and active lifestyle in our students.

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Tucson Sport Magazine, along with the Activate Tucson Team, will join forces and work collaboratively to increase the overall flow of quality information, activities, and athletic challenges aimed directly at Southern Arizona’s active and sporting families of all ages and abilities and to impact overall quality of life through the celebration of family, sport, and life.

For more information please contact Lucy Howell, Founder, at contact@tucsonsport.net or by visiting http://www.tucsonsport.net/.

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The goal of the U.S. Senior Support Services Program is to have a more informed senior population that desires to be more involved in all active lifestyle sporting events offered throughout the United States. The U.S. Senior Support Services Program creates and distributes the monthly National Senior Sports Newsletter to keep seniors abreast of all senior athletic events throughout the country and a few overseas.

For more information visit their website at http://www.seniors-masters-champions.com/.

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Wellness Works is a regional, business-led fitness campaign offered by the Greater Washington Board of Trade. This program encourages employees to engage in 30 minutes of physical activity, five days a week for six weeks. Using the President's Challenge website to track their physical activity employees will be eligible to earn the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award. Because healthier employees miss fewer work days, are more productive, and consume less medical care, the Board of Trade believes that good health is good business. You can visit http://www.botwellnessworks.org www.botwellnessworks.org for more information about this initiative.

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VCycling is supporting the President's Challenge with their incentive program called VCycling's Virtual Challenge. VCycling encourages everyone from school-age children to Senior Citizens to participate in this challenge. Participants will log their sessions each time they ride in an effort to obtain a goal of 100 hours. When this goal is reached, they will receive a special Presidential Champions Gold Award. VCycling will also post the winner of these awards on their web site giving encouragement to others to Pedal For the Gold!

For more information on VCycling, visit their web site at http://www.vcycling.com today and see why they are A New Fitness Experience For All Generations!

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The mission of XRtainment Zone is to provide families and kids of all ages a fitness club of their own "where working out is all play." When exercise is fun, lasting healthy lifestyle habits can be established and obesity, cardiovascular disease and other lifestyle illnesses can be prevented or reduced. The Company uses new exertainment technology to make exercise fun, but also employs innovative wellness techniques to treat the multiple causes of lifestyle related diseases that currently plague modern families and society at large. For more information on all that XRtainment Zone has to offer please visit http://www.xrtainmentzone.com.


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Generation Now Fitness is a state of the art interactive fitness facility dedicated to obtaining and maintaining the physical and mental well-being of children. They welcome children ages 5-17, of all shapes and sizes, from all walks of life. They offer interactive exercise equipment designed specifically for children as well as fun, funky classes and strength training. They offer sports specific training programs for athletes as well as sports medicine for injuries. They want kids to get fit…and have fun doing it! For more information about Generation Now Fitness visit http://www.generationnowfitness.com/.



In 2006 Discovery Communications utilized the online tools of the President’s Challenge for their Global Employee Body Challenge. As part of this initiative employees of Discovery were encouraged to log on to the President’s Challenge via a specially designed portal page to track their physical activities. Recognition was given to divisions that had the greatest participation and completion rates. The program was a great way to motivate employees to be more physically active on a regular basis without needing to be at one central location. For more information on Discovery Communications visit http://corporate.discovery.com/.



The "Fitness Runs in the Family" program was created to encourage Americans to take the President's Challenge and work towards the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA). With 64% of Americans considered overweight or obese, this program offered exciting fitness alternatives to current sedentary routines many American families find themselves in. On the final day, those individuals that have finished the six week challenge could simply print out a copy of their activity log and take it to their Bally Total Fitness Center to receive their certificate of completion for the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA).

During the six-week period of "Family Fitness Days", parents and children were able to work out for free during the week with fitness professionals on hand to offer assistance. Classes for children 8 years and older were available on weekends to create a fun and active experience for kids. Hip-hop dance and boot camp classes were held each weekend to offer kids a high energy workout that was not only more intense than a gym class, but also more exciting. They heard their favorite music and learned new dance moves and exercises that kept them moving to the beat and got them off the couch when they returned home.



The got milk? 3v3 Soccer Shootout teamed up with the President’s Challenge to help teach kids and teens about the importance of living a healthy, active lifestyle. The key is a balance of physical activity and smart nutrition choices to ensure an all-around healthy way of life.

At select got milk? 3v3 Soccer Shootout tournament events throughout the country, kids of all ages took part in fitness activities based on the President’s Challenge. Participants received a Passport to Healthy Living, and those who completed all activities received a blue ribbon in recognition of their accomplishment.

To learn more about the got milk? 3v3 Soccer Shootout and the many benefits of drinking milk visit www.whymilk.com.



The Motorola Marathon, an annual charity event in Austin, Texas, offers registrants a chance to run for charity in February each year. All proceeds go to the United Way, Capital Area. Motorola will matches up to $100,000 of contributions to the United Way through registrations to the Motorola Marathon. Motorola has been a title sponsor of the marathon since its inception in 1991. For more information about the Motorola Marathon, please visit www.motorolamarathon.com.



ActivTrax is a web-based application delivering personalized workouts to Fitness Club members at their club location. The company was founded on the belief that while personal training is not an option for everyone, personalized attention is.

ActivTrax offers an innovative blend of technology and years of personal training experience to create customized, ever-changing workouts to keep club members motivated and on the path to the results they seek. The logic behind the workouts has been developed from years of research in the fields of exercise science, physiology and behavioral psychology, and has been specifically designed to assist people in forming permanent exercise habits. For more information visit www.activtrax.com



Walk, Run, Fit, Fun: Take the Pedometer Challenge was an educational program created by lifetime Learning Systems, Inc., a division of Weekly Reader, in cooperation with Pepsi. This program was developed to encourage middle school-age students and their parents to become physically active and provides pedometers to monitor their efforts. The program contained 100 pedometers for a school and a poster guide with lessons to supplement the physical fitness/health curriculum. Students were encouraged to keep moving and earn the Presidential Active Lifestyle Award (PALA) provided by Pepsi.
www.pepsi.com
www.getactivestayactive.com



Shape Your Life is setting a new gold standard for fitness with its spiritually-based program where fitness isn't simply about the shape of your body; it's about the shape of your life. Shape Your Life collaborated with the President's Challenge program to integrate Shape Your Life's 7 elements of holistic fitness (exercise, nutrition/diet, body image, sleep {all modes of rest, relaxation and meditation}, work, spirituality, and emotional well-being) with the President's Challenge interactive website. Developing cutting edge strategies to motivate Americans to adopt and maintain an active and fit lifestyle is essential in such times when life's pace is fast, stress is high and the need for finding balance and inner calm has never been greater. Additionally, Shape Your Life brought the pages of Weider Publications, LLC women's magazines to life through intensive 2-7 day programs at destination resorts such as Red Mountain Spa in St. George, Utah; 1-day events throughout the country; and other services and products designed to help you "create the life you really want to live!"

Rejuvenation Begins With Shape Your Life
For more information, visit www.shape.com or contact Kathy Soverow, M.S., M.Ed, Executive Director, ksoverow@amilink.com.



Wheaties collaborated with the President's Challenge to recognize the State Champion schools for the 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 school years. Schools that received State Champion status received a State Champion Physical Fitness prize kit containing a large banner to hang in the school and a variety of athletic equipment. In addition, these State Champion schools were eligible to make a poster showing how the students of that school achieved State Champion status. The artwork was used as the backdrop for a school banner sent to the 2003-2004 State Champions. Three schools' posters, one representing each of the State Champion categories, was selected as a winner and received $5,000 grants to go towards the physical education departments of each school. For more information on Wheaties, visit www.wheaties.com

For more information on the State Champions program, click here.