Oklahoma State University continues to strive to be "America's Healthiest Campus"
Monday, June 28, 2010
New iPhone application launched to help promote health and wellness across the university
The Oklahoma State University Seretean Wellness Center has partnered with Fitterlife
to release a new iPhone application for Cowboys on the Move. The app allows users
to track their exercise minutes on the go and automatically syncs with the Cowboys
on the Move website. The app is free, easy to use and is taking OSU one step closer
to being America’s Healthiest Campus.
Cowboys on the Move is an interactive, comprehensive website developed exclusively
for OSU. The program encourages the OSU community to become more active in their lifestyles
and strive to live healthier. It offers many tools, including an exercise tracker,
a nutrition tracker and fittercise videos, which demonstrate various work out routines.
Incentives are provided to OSU-Stillwater faculty and staff, 75 percent full-time
employed and above. Participants receive a Cowboys on the Move moisture management
T-shirt at sign up. The more minutes logged the more incentives received. Incentives
include a gym bag, paper weight and OSU watch.
“OSU is striving to be America’s HEALTHIEST campus, and this is just one component
of that overall goal,” Robin Purdie, Director of OSU Seretean Wellness Center, said.
“We have partnered with Fitterlife to provide the technical expertise while staff
at the OSU Seretean Wellness Center provides the health and wellness expertise. Information
and applications are science based and additional applications are being developed
in other areas of health and wellness. It is the perfect partnership of education
and industry, and we look forward to developing additional programs to move toward
our goal of becoming America’s HEALTHIEST campus”
Cowboys on the Move has about 1200 users who have accumulated nearly three million
minutes of activity since 2009. Users are encouraged to perform 150 minutes of physical
activity each week, based on guidelines from the American College of Sports Medicine.
Seretean Wellness Center’s mission is to help people achieve a balance of physical
and mental health. The Center has 21 full-time employees, graduate assistants, interns
and part-time student employees. The center houses the O-Zone Fitness Center, employee
health clinic and a demonstration kitchen. For more information about the Seretean
Wellness Center and its programs visit wellness.okstate.edu or call 405.744.9355