Pauls Valley, Oklahoma —
Round two is this week for the start of a fun kind of health program designed to help Pauls Valley residents lose some weight together.
It's called the Measure Up with Main Street Pauls Valley Health and Fitness Challenge.
With a good response for the recent first season of the health challenge, Main Street officials are set to offer it all over again starting this week.
This next version of the challenge begins Thursday, Sept. 2 with the deadline to register coming on Wednesday.
Main Street Pauls Valley director Samantha Robb believes participants can again expect to have some fun as they work together to lose some weight.
“We did Season 1 last spring, and it was very successful,” Robb said.
“People had a lot of fun with it, and generally they did pretty good.”
The way it works is teams of four people get the chance to walk in the downtown area or exercise on their own as a way of losing weight, improving their cardio, lowering cholesterol and spending time together as they also support the local downtown Main Street program.
When this challenge going through September and October comes to an end the team with the largest percentage of weight loss is the winner.
Registration is $40 per person with a part of that money going to the winner, while the rest goes to support Main Street PV.
Participants are encouraged to walk downtown but it's not required. Instead, participants should choose any activity on the healthy side they like, such as bicycling, lifting weights or aerobics.
“You're not locked into any routine. You just have a four-person team and you support each other to lose weight,” Robb said.
There will be bi-weekly weigh-ins held at the Stark Art Gallery, 211 South Chickasaw. Robb is quick to stress only team weights will be revealed.
Teams will be given free health screenings and Main Street food journals to help track individual calorie and fat intake.
As for the first challenge earlier this year, Robb said weight loss wasn't the only thing seen as a few surprises were thrown in just for fun.
“It got fun toward the end because the teams started messing with each other,” she said.
Robb elaborated on that by saying the practical joker came out in some of the participants. An example is members of one team would order certain foods for another team when they were seen in a local restaurant.
Even with the fun of it all, Robb again said the idea of the event is for participants to help each other lose weight while setting a foundation for a healthier lifestyle.
She stresses all participants should get the OK from their physicians before taking part in the Main Street challenge.
Teams can register by contacting Main Street at mspv@sbcglobal or 405-238-2555. Participants can also register by contacting committee member Julie Selman at 405-756-5560 or at julies148@gmail.com.
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