All Staff: Your Week 3 of the STRONG Challenge Program Activities: Accelerate

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We're halfway there!
We can do this!

This week, let’s ACCELERATE forward, continuing to put one foot in front of the other - it's just 30 minutes for 5 days a week.

It can be as easy as taking a walk along the beach, a quick online yoga class, or using your Y membership benefit at any of our Y facilities!

Continue to trust in yourself. Your community is here to support and celebrate you, as we move forward together to accomplish new goals.

STRONG Week 3 Activities & Resources

Join Your Co-Workers in our Activity Tracker!

Our staff-only online/mobile app activity tracker also allows us to post fun and inspirational photos and comments..see a few below that your co-workers have been posting.

You can still join in the fun and opportunity to win prizes.
1. Just click here.
2. Choose "STRONG Challenge Tracker YMCA of Honolulu Staff 10.18.21 to 11.17.21"
3. Make an account and you're in!
4. Full instructions are here.

Join our Y Staff Activity Tracker

What's New This Week!

Your Motivational Coach
Be sure to watch Coach Bridget our week 3 motivational coach. She reminds us how to celebrate our small steps that lead to accomplishing our big goals with 3 easy tips!
Click here!

Fearless Friday and Mindful Moment Lift
Our Fearless Friday Coach Alexia inspires us with tips on how keeping hopeful for the future starts with believing in ourselves. Coach Stacey's Mindful Meditation session is a double bonus with Coach Lia. Together they will take you on a meditation journey that you can do solo or with a friend! Click here!

New Workout Playlist
Workout to the uplifting and catchy tunes of our favorite Disney classics!
Click here!

This Week's Yummy Recipes
Sautéed Asparagus, Chicken Enchiladas, Dalgona Whipped Coffee, and our own local Bi Bim Bap Stuffed Peppers and Purple Potato Poke Salad recipes. See below!

But wait, there’s more!
Take a look below for the great local resources we have lined up just for YOU, as our valued STRONG Challenge participant...

Let’s Get Outdoors!

Love Hawaii.
Connect to Nature.

Several years ago, our YMCA partnered with the Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance to expand their web-based tool that connected people to environmental volunteer, learning and career opportunities across Hawaiʻi.

Our Y added a family friendly search tool for keiki, families, and people of all ages to get together, connect to nature, and make a positive impact for the future.

Today, Conservation Connections.org is a one-stop source for anyone looking for opportunities to work, volunteer, intern, research, or donate to organizations that are doing great work stewarding the land, ocean, and cultural sites of Hawaiʻi.

Take a look and you'll find dozens of wonderful opportunities to help care for, appreciate and learn about our culture and 'aina and, in the process, benefit your own well-being in mind, spirit and body!

Connect to Amazing Environmental Volunteer Opportunities for All Ages!

Let’s Eat!
Bi Bim Bap Stuffed Peppers

A delicious vegan stuffed pepper recipe courtesy of Nutti Nelli Aloha!

Notes:
Gochujang Paste
This is a thick and spicy/sweet paste commonly used in Korean food. It provides the needed “umami” flavor in many recipes.

Liquid Aminos
A great, healthy soy sauce alternative that can be found in most grocery stores in the condiments section.

Agave Nectar
A delightful liquid sweetener to use in replacement of processed sugar that has a very neutral taste.

Rice Vinegar
A type of vinegar created from rice.

Let's Eat Some More!
Purple Potato Poke Salad
Courtesy of YMCA HR Director CharlAnn Nakamoto

Serves 6 -8

Ingredients

2 pounds Okinawan sweet potato
4 ounces fresh seaweed (ogo or limu)
1/4 cup sea asparagus, roughly chopped
1/4 cup chopped green onions
1 tsp roasted sesame seeds
1 cup chopped green onions
5 TBS fresh ginger, minced or grated
1 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp sesame oil
Rock salt to taste
Lettuce or ti leaves for plating
Fresh seaweed for garnish

Instructions

Boil potatoes until tender, yet firm, about 20 minutes. Chill. Peel (or you may keep the skins on) and cut into bite-sized pieces.
Blanch seaweed in boiling water for less than one minute. Drain, chill and chop.
Mix potatoes with seaweed, sea asparagus, green onions, sesame seeds, ginger, oils and salt to taste.
Plate potatoes on a bed of lettuce or ti leaves.
Garnish plate with chopped fresh seaweed.

Other Yummy Recipes
Sautéed Asparagus, Chicken Enchiladas and Dalgona Whipped Coffee...click here!

Share Your Favorite Recipe!

Let's Get Moving

Be sure to use your Y membership benefit to access all of our great classes, heated pools, and cardio and strength training equipment.

Here’s a quick link to the November Class Schedule: In-Person, Live Stream and in the Pool!

November Class Schedule

Do you know a Kupuna...

...who could benefit from a FREE 6-Month Y Membership?

First Hawaiian Bank, in celebration of their newly designed Branch in the Mililani Shopping Center and nearly four decades of service in the community, is providing up to 25 kupunas in need with a free 6-month Y membership at the Mililani Y.

If you know of a kupuna who lives in Miliani who could benefit from this wonderful gift from First Hawaiian Bank, please let us know!

First Hawaiian Bank is also providing support for our Mililani Y's Safety Around Water program and Intersession Day Camp scholarships for Mililani students with financial need. We are so fortunate to have the support of First Hawaiian Bank in keeping our communities healthy and strong!

Refer a Kupuna in need for a FREE 6 Month Mililani Y Membership

Let’s Get Connected

STRONGLIVES Small Groups: Tuesdays, 9 am Hawaii Time:
A great way to start your day! Join us on Tuesdays at 9 am!

Join Directly at 9 am Every Tuesday

Join our Private Stronglife Facebook Groups:
Share your challenges and successes with your new friends and ohana, and find new workout buddies!

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Invite Your Friends & Family to Join You in the STRONG Challenge Program:
They can join anytime by simply texting STRONG to 844-889-6222 or by registering on our website at https://www.ymcahonolulu.org/

Let's Get Healthy Together

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