Physical Wellbeing
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Exercise
Nutrition
Safety & Preparedness
Health Risk Prevention
Ideas for Exercise and Fitness
- Schedule an Exercise Presentation
Email the wellness coordinators to give a short presentation in your department such as: resistance band strength training, stretching, and weight training without equipment.
- Start a Walking Group
Start a walking group that takes regular walks together at specific times throughout the day or week. Or you could do a one-time noon-hour walk to either of the Provo temples.
- Host a Daily or Weekly Stretch Break
Share a 10-minute stretching or do a short/yoga video together.
- Host a Tour to See All the Fitness Facility on Campus
Present or tour the fitness facilities available to BYU staff. Wellness coordinators are happy to help guide the tour!
- Promote BYU Fitness Classes, Fun Walks, or Other Events
Share details about the free fitness classes BYU offers to staff, faculty, and spouses, and other Wellness events or invite co-workers to attend them together with you.
- Create a Department Intramural Team
Create a team from your department to participate in an intramural sport that BYU offers.
- Do a Department Fitness Challenge
Initiate doing an exercise challenge for your department. Try any in the toolbox such as: Hike the Y, 10,000 Steps a Day, March Mania, Morning Movement, Plank, Stretching, Take a Hike, TRYathalon, or Sky Scraper Stair Challenge.
- Promote the Healthy Me Challenges
Participate in a Healthy Me Fitness Challenge together as a team for the 2-month duration of the cashback challenge.
- Checkout Recreational Item from the HRD/Wellness Library
Checkout an outdoor game to play with your department. Options may include: bocce ball, cornhole, croquet, giant spoon/egg relay, ladder ball, 9 square, spikeball, parachutes, scoop catchers, badminton, speed-minton, volleyball, outdoor chess, horseshoes, pickleball, 4 square, compass activity, etc.
- Have People Share their Favorite Hikes, Bike Trails, Geo-Cashing Leads
Find a format for everyone to share their favorite outdoor activities with each other. You could make a list of popular apps like AllTrails or The Hiking Project.
- Do a Biking, Hiking, Snowshoeing, or Geo-Cashing Activity Together
Do a department bike-to-work day, go on a hike, or have a geo-cashing adventure on a Saturday morning for all who want to participate. Check out Outdoors Unlimited if you need supplies.
Ideas for Nutrition
- When Serving Food Always Include a Healthy Option
It is important to include a healthy option for employees whenever you host a department meal or refreshment table.
- Schedule a Nutrition Presentation
Schedule the wellness coordinators to give a short presentation in your department. Our nutrition presentations include grain bar, green smoothie, easy healthy meals, and healthy cooking substitutions. Or you could teach a class of your own.
- Hold a Healthy Recipe Swap
Invite coworkers to share their favorite healthy recipe on a shared document or slack channel.
- Host a Nutrition Challenge
Implement a challenge from the toolbox such as: 50 fruits and veggies, better breakfast, drop pop, fruit punch challenge, hydration motivation, whole grains. These usually last up to two weeks.
- Share Nutrition Tips
Share nutrition tips, healthy recipes, links, or information via an email or newsletter or at the start of department meetings. Find healthy recipes under the Nutrition tab on this page. (BYU Cookbooks)
- Hold a Healthy Snack Potluck or Taste Test Day
Organize a day or a week and invite everyone to bring a healthy snack to share such as clementines, multi-grain chips, nuts, dried fruit, and light popcorn. Or have people make a healthy recipe or snack and bring it for coworkers to taste test. You could even bring in different flavors of water infused with citrus, berries, cucumber, or mint for people to try.
Ideas for Safety and Preparedness
- Share Safety & Preparedness Tips
Share safety and preparedness tips and information via an email or newsletter or at the start of department meetings. You could look on the BYU Risk Management website for ideas or their website scavenger hunt.
- Host a Safety Presentation
Invite someone from the department of Risk Management to come and do a presentation on first aid, ergonomics, or other topics. Or you could become CPR/First Aid certified as a department. - https://risk.byu.edu/training/in-person-training
- Have Everyone Watch the Campus Safety Videos and Sign up for Y-Alerts
The police department has 3 videos aimed at campus safety: 20 to Ready, Shots Fired, and Flash Point. Teach your coworkers how to register for Y-Alert texts or emails.
- Create a Fire Evacuation Plan
Create a fire evacuation plan and post it in a visible place. Take time regularly to review it with your people.
- Find the Nearest AED/First Aid Kits
Show coworkers where the nearest AED/first aid kits are located and do the online training together (on the Risk Management website) for how to use them.
Ideas for Health Risk Prevention
- Check out Blood Pressure Cuffs
Check out the blood pressure cuffs from the wellness office for department use. You could also use this blood pressure worksheet to promote awareness. The wellness department also has a blood pressure presentation you could schedule.
- Hold a Book Club on the Culprit and the Cure Book
BYU Wellness has a few books you can check out. They also have a presentation that goes along with the book that you can give or schedule to have given by a wellness coordinator.
- Do a Health Risk Prevention Challenge
Initiate a challenge from the toolbox such as: heart healthy, sleep, hydration.
- Promote the Triple Screening and Health Risk Assessment
Invite coworkers to get their triple screening and health risk assessment: https://hrd.byu.edu/triple-screening-health-risk-assessment-hra.
- Promote Wellness Clinics and the Living Well Classes When they Happen
Promote the BYU Wellness clinics when they happen such as: mammograms, flu shots, or immunization.
- Share Health Risk Prevention Tips
Share health risk prevention tips and information via an email or newsletter or at the start of department meetings.