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New Year's resolution

Fitness, weight programs offered to employees

The MUSC Wellness Center and MUSC Weight Management Center are teaming up to help employees stick with those New Year’s resolutions to get healthier. Their Well Into the New Year program will make it easier for employees to tap into campus resources with special discounts. 

Employees joining by Jan. 31 can take advantage of a limited, discounted three-month exclusive membership for $100. The offer is open to new members. A clinical membership for $120 is also available when referred by a physician. Membership includes full use of a renovated, state-of-the-art cardiovascular arena, strength training facilities, aerobics program, indoor/outdoor track, aquatic programs for the junior Olympic-sized pool, tennis, racquetball and squash courts. 

Wellness center director Julian Smith hopes that employees can take advantage of these discounted rates.

The Weight Management Center is also offering Well into the New Year benefits for employees who have a little or a lot to lose. 

First, besides the regular discounts extended to MUSC employees, all employees who join one of the Center’s regular programs before Jan. 31 will be given an additional $50 off the regular prices.

Second, the Weight Management Center has put together a new weight control program for employees who are just looking to “drop a few pounds” in the new year. 

This 10-week program will offer guidance in nutrition, exercise, and the behavioral management of weight. It will be a close-ended group with a maximum enrollment of 50 people. It will meet weekly at noon every Monday in the WMC Day Room (410 IOP South). 

The first meeting will be on Jan. 13. The cost of this program is $100.

“We have always offered employee discounts and extended, payroll deduction payment plans for MUSC employees joining our regular programs,” said Patrick O’Neil, Ph.D., director of the Weight Management Center. “However, a number of employees have expressed interest in having a basic, very low-cost program here on campus. We’re offering this program to meet that need and to help our fellow MUSC employees meet their health goals in the new year.”

Enrollment in both or either program can be made by check or payroll deduction. The Wellness Center and Weight Management Center are making it easier for employees to become “well into the new year.” 

To register or for more information about the Wellness Center program call 792-2533. 

For information on the Weight Management Center’s NoonLite program, call 792-2273.
 

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