Stressed?

I'm sure we can all relate to feeling like we're loosing our identities due to stress at one point or another, why do we simply accept the impact stress has on our well being? 

We can not always remove the triggers that cause us to stress from our lives but we can develop our ability to lower the impact it has on us!  

Ultimately it is a choice.  It is not always the easiest or simplest choice to make but it is up to each and every one of us to decide how much is too much.

Our bodies can do amazing things with very little.
 Your body does not demand a mansion, a super car or a 10 figure bank balance to perform the essentials functions that keep us alive.

Feeding your body with nutritious food provides fuel to your organs
Breathing supplies Oxygen to generate cellular energy

Two simple basic needs that we give our body every day, these basics give us the ability to exercise and physical exercise is a great stress relief tool!

So next time the big S word is controlling your thoughts take a step back, a deep breath in and go for a walk, run around the block or even hit the stairs if you can leave the office, you can change the way stress impacts on your life, recognize the signs and get moving
 

Must. Eat. Good. Food

It always sounds like such a chore to eat 'healthy' but these days with such a vast range of amazing organic produce available it doesn't need to be.

With regular farmers markets held all over the place your sure to easily locate an abundence of fresh, organic produce PLUS often you are buying direct from the grower and therefore supporting a local business!


Need more convincing?
Click here to read more on organic foods & participate in our survey!

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Setting Realistic Fitness Goals

GOALS

How can a word which represents feels of gratification and pride be so frightening when it comes to our health and fitness?!

As we grow up we learn about setting goals, often we fail at these goals, not because we didn't try but because the goal itself was actually unattainable or too big on its own, we didn't have the small goals in place to help us on our way to our big goal or we simply didn't give our self a realistic goal to achieve. Having a goal to 'become a millionaire' is great, but its unachievable without the stepping stone goals to guide us to this major goal. There are so many considerations to take into account, the 'who's, what's, where's, when's', overwhelming isn't it, now wonder so many give up and feel disheartened by the process, when you just keep idling along your not disappointed, but are you challenging yourself at all by doing this?

Goals are designed to challenge ourselves, something to aim for, a purpose even.  They help us push just that bit further than what we normally would and give us the motivation to strive to do just that little bit better, as long as we don't set ourselves up for failure by setting these goals too high with no safety net to ensure that we are caught before we hit thr ground if we happen to slip en route to the goal!

Goals should help give you a purpose in what you are doing, something to drive your motivation and keep you on track, they shouldn't make you feel insecure and like you 'failed' because you didn't reach the end point.  To set a goal to loose 5kgs overnight while you were asleep or to run a marathon in a week (and you can't even run 2kms right now) is unrealistic and it does not provide you with any support or buffers, anyone who has achieved a huge goal in their lives will tell you, you must set realistic smaller goals that can be easily measured to reach your end point.

Start by breaking your big goal into smaller goals, ask yourself - what steps would I need to complete to get to the cherry on top?

Once you have determined what these are you could use something like the 'S.M.A.R.T Goal system to help you write up your goals so they are achieveable.

Using the 'SMART' goal setting system you will set yourself up with realistic & manageable goals for your fitness progress.

SMART goals are:

1. Specific - don't generalise - Who, What, Why. 
2. Measurable - How will your goal be measured?
3. Achievable - Be realistic with your goals and don't commit to too many goals at once.
4. Relevant - Is the goal necessary in your development?
5. Time-Based - set your self an attainable time frame that will still challenge yourself

By setting realistic, measurable, achievable goals that are relevant to the big picture you for see you can easily plan out the steps required to achieve the goal within a specific time frame. Thus reducing your chances of failing and then relapsing on any progress made so far!

The BCMWP team are always on hand to help you map out your goals helping you achieve your fitness and health best!

Welcome!

  

Launched on April 21^st 2013 BOOTCAMP MY WORKPLACE is a fictional business.  The website and business idea were developed and produced for a Communications Management Group Project in the Graduate Certificate of Business Management at Swinburne University.

Lee, Lyndsey, Melinda and Rebecca (group members) share a common interest in fitness and well being making this program an ideal topic for the website.

  The project required the group to design and build a 2.0 website incorporating social media tools to encourage and allow collaboration and participation from visitors. 

Visitors are invited to collaborate with the group regarding the program and website by posting comments and using the provided BCMWP social links and surveys.
https://sites.google.com/site/bootcampmyworkplace/home 

The idea behind the site...

BCMPW provides work place wellness solutions for businesses, the website provides factual information regarding the benefits of providing wellness programs to employees. 

The site provides participants of the program an essential link to collaborate with the BCMWP team of experts and other members.  Social networking provides great support to participants and recent studies are indicating that this support actually increases the positive outcomes relating to achieving  fitness and weight loss goals.

Visitors are invited to participate in our survey's, share their thoughts and gain knowledge from approved posts.

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