It's Wellness Wednesday here at Stanley Subaru. While we're working on putting together our next newsletter, we just had to share a good recipe and a great upcoming event with you.
First and foremost, food! Spencer Patterson King recently joined the Stanley Subaru team, and this is the smoothie recipe he loves after exercise:
8-12 ounces of water
½ cup of low-fat vanilla yogurt
2 tablespoons of peanut butter
chocolate syrup to taste*
1 cup of mixed frozen fruit**
¼ to ½ cup of ice to keep cool and ease blending
*not exactly healthy, but definitely delicious. Don't worry, the smoothie's still great without it.
**Go for the no added sugar stuff, particularly if you're going to be cheat a little bit like Spencer with the chocolate syrup. Pineapple, mango, peaches, and strawberries are great, but throw in what you like. Bananas are a wonderful source of potassium that help ease that achy feeling after a tough workout. And fresh Maine blueberries are always a treat.
By Sigurdas (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Spencer recommends putting ingredients in the blender in that order for easiest blending. Put your blender on liquefy, and enjoy! These amounts will get you about 32 ounces of smoothie. That's enough for a day or two's worth of work out, provides plenty of protein to help your muscles stay in tip top shape after all that work, gives you a delicious serving of fruit, and is a great way to cool down after exercise.
You may already know about our Employee Wellness program and our Pink Tuesdays, and you may even know about that Stanley Subaru sponsors WLBZ News Center 2's Buddy to Buddy reports. Stanley Subaru is committed to increasing the health and vitality of our community. As part of that commitment, Stanley Subaru and WLBZ 2 teamed up with the Komen for the Cure 5k Run/Walk and 1k Fun Run on September 21st. It even has fun in the name.
Here's what being a part of this fun run can do for you.
Walking is great for you. This page at Harvard has all kinds of details, and you'd be well off to read the whole thing, but one of the great things about walking is "Protection was evident even at distances of just 5½ miles per week and at a pace as casual as about 2 miles per hour." That's not that much and not that fast. You don't have to be fast to get the benefits of cardiovascular fitness.
And if you're up for it, running can be great, too. One of the biggest advantages running has over walking is running is a higher impact exercise than walking. Researchers at University of Missouri published a paper in 2009 which effectively states, "The results of the study confirm that both resistance training and high-impact endurance activities increase bone mineral density. However, high-impact sports, like running, appear to have a greater beneficial effect," according to Pam Hinton, an Associate Professor at the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology there. Increase your cardiovascular health and bone health while increasing the health opportunities of local Mainers? What's not to love?
Test Drive for the Cure and Pink Tuesdays are ways you can support cancer treatment with Stanley Subaru. The Komen for the Cure is a way you can feel not just the camaraderie of Stanley Subaru but the community of Downeast Maine rally with you as you support this cause.
Joining our Buddy to Buddy team means you get to have a fun fit day out, enjoy the Bangor Waterfront, enjoy the company of some great Mainers, care for yourself, and care for your local community. Please join us.
