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The Anthem Blue Cross & The Boys and Girls Club Fitness Centers
The Boys & Girls Club believes in teaching youth how to make healthier choices when it comes to daily fitness and nutrition. The Boys & Girls Club national program takes a holistic approach to educating boys and girls about good nutrition, making physical fitness a daily practice and developing individual strengths and good character.
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Taking a systematic approach, this component boosts Clubs’ traditional physical activities to a higher level by providing sports and fitness activities for all youth – boys and girls, athletically gifted and those talented in other areas, children and teens alike.
Anthem Blue Cross, and it’s broadcast partner 790 KABC, has set up “Wii Fitness Centers” in five Boys & Girls Club locations in Los Angeles designed to encourage boys and girls to take the “790 KABC- Anthem Blue Cross Wii Fitness Challenge”. In keeping with the Boys & Girls Club national program goals, 790 KABC and Anthem Blue Cross believes the Wii Fitness Centers will help enhance the Boys & Girls Club national program goals of making physical fitness a fun way to get daily exercise.
The Wii Anthem Blue Cross Challenge: Starting in April (beginning of Dodger season) boys & girls will be encouraged to use the Wii games on a daily basis. Each child that wants to participate will be given a “progress card”*. The card will indicate how many minute/hours a day the individual child spends playing with the Wii game. The counselors will set a healthy competitive atmosphere based on the children’s age groups. The Wii Fit games and programs conducted in a Boys & Girls Club gymnasium can be used hand-in-hand to correlate between physical and virtual. At the end of each month, April, May, June, July and August the counselors we will determine the highest scorer by age group. At the end of the program the highest scoring children will be invited to Dodger Stadium and the top three children will be awarded a bronze, silver and gold award.
*Each Boys & Girls Club affiliate acts individually and can use their own method of record keeping (i.e. KidTrax, Membership Tracking Software, MS Access)
Healthy Habits: Empowering youth to eat right is a generation-changing, life-enhancing program goal. Healthy Habits, covers the power of choice, calories, vitamins and minerals, the food pyramid and appropriate portion size. In addition to daily exercise Anthem Blue Cross wants to empower youth to set good eating habits for life. Anthem Blue Cross will provide nutritional information for the participating clubs
