While American Heart Month lasts through February, maintaining or improving heart health doesn’t stop at 28 days. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, better heart health is a journey “that can last a lifetime.”
To help the campus observe American Heart Month, City College President Kathryn Jeffery invited everyone at City College to join her for a walk around the Hughes Stadium track at the launch of Come Walk With Me, a campaign to promote a heart healthy campus.
According to Jeffery, the benefits of Come Walk With Me are twofold.
“Health experts say, ‘The faster, farther and more frequently you walk, the greater the benefits,’” said Jeffery in a Feb. 5 statement detailing the campaign. “And while walking together, we will build new connections while improving our health one step at a time.”
The campaign launched Feb. 11 with close to 20 participants, each of whom Jeffery hopes will continue walking with her for the duration. Come Walk With Me takes place 11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday inside Hughes Stadium at the south entrance. Activities will begin with light stretching followed by a walk on the track with bottled water provided for participants.
In the Jan. 27 City Clips edition of City Chronicles, Jeffery said she planned to add walking for exercise to her daily routine. Because she was certain that others could benefit, too, she invited everyone at City College to join her.
“[I] checked the availability of the track, and I found a nice window for about an hour,” said Jeffery. “I’m thinking if we could get groups of people out to walk…for about an hour we could walk around the track and not interfere with the class activities that take place at Hughes Stadium. So for spring semester I’m inviting [everyone on campus] to come walk with me.”
In the video, Gomez said walking is a convenient activity of abundant benefit for anyone.
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“Walking is an easy exercise to do no matter where you’re at,” said Gomez. “It can be tailored to anybody’s activity level that they’re able to do. It’s an outdoor activity… it’s good for your physical as well as your mental health.”
City Clips is among four different edition types comprising the all-things-campus-related informative City Chronicles email that goes out weekly to City College faculty and staff. City Clips features video interviews and discussions with Jeffery.
Jeffery said in the video that she came up with the idea for the campaign after discussion with City College Health Services nurses Jeff Christian and Wendy Gomez about exercise and the role it plays in smoking cessation.
During a brief interview at the launch of Come Walk With Me, Jeffery said she knew from experience that replacing an unhealthy behavior with one that supports a heart-smart lifestyle is important, especially with smoking cessation.
According to Jeffery, using spare time to participate in the campaign may help those who have successfully quit an unhealthy behavior reduce the risk of adopting another.
“Sometimes people pick back up on what they’ve stopped because they’re left with spare time,” said Jeffery. “They need something else to fill that time with.”
Jeffery said Jan. 27 in City Talk that her vision of a heart-smart campus extended beyond those struggling with smoking cessation to include everyone at City College, even herself.
“My particular interest is to try and create a change in my routine—I sit a lot,” said Jeffery. “During the spring semester, my intent is to grab my tennis shoes, my gloves, a scarf and to take a walk around Hughes Stadium.”
