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MORRISVILLE AQUATICS & FITNESS CENTER
Morrisville Aquatics and Fitness Center
(MAFC) has been a Silver Sneakers
Facility for nearly three years. The
program has allowed MAFC to offer
many different health and wellness
options for seniors. There are about 215
Silver Sneaker members at MAFC.
The Town celebrated the 25th Anniver-
sary of the Silver Sneakers program
October 23-27 by giving raffle tickets to
members who attended Silver Sneakers
classes. Prizes were then given out via
raffle at a special Silver Sneakers Pot-
luck at the end of the week.
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HA HA Program
The Holiday Activity Healthy Accountability (HA HA) Program
encouraged residents to join MAFC for the first time and
provided both current and new members with healthy habit
support through the holidays. Program highlights included:
Maintain Don’t Gain Challenge (40 participants tracked
percentage of bodyweight lost over the Holiday season)
Planksgiving (10 days of core strengthening exercises)
Weekly sElf Help Blog
12 Days of Fitness (Just like the song, an exercise was
added each day)
During the promotional period 54 people joined MAFC.
Left: Sr. Flex and Balance Instructor Mari-
anne Crafts-Brandner was one of several
staff Elf Bloggers.
Right: Ruth was the Planksgiving Winner
MAFC Silver Sneakers members enjoyed a
potluck to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the
Silver Sneakers program.
Members Go the
Distance
Starting September 11, MAFC
challenged
members
to
complete a full or half Ironman
Triathlon over the course of five
weeks. The challenge ended
on October 14, the same date
as the Ironman Triathlon in
Hawaii. More than 50 people
participated.
To help members reach their
goal, staff broke the distances
down into manageable inter-
vals for different skill levels.
Many members increased their
daily run, bike and swim mile-
age to complete this goal.
Members who completed the Go
the Distance challenge received a
MAFC travel mug.
SILVER SNEAKERS
The program was very popular
with 30 participants successful-
ly completing the challenge.