We're Moving Outdoors!!!

Stroller Strides of Bend is moving outdoors on Monday, May 11!

Spring is springing (believe it or not) and we're ready to head outdoors. On Monday, May 11 we will be moving to Larkspur Park (Bend Sr. Center off Reed Mkt. Rd.) This will be our summer location on Mondays and Wednesdays @ 9:15 am.

On Thursdays we will be at Compass Park in NW Crossing (on NW Crossing Drive) @ 9:15 am.

Schedule your summer exercise today before your calendar fills up. Get your SUMMER PUNCH CARD good for 30 Stroller Strides classes between May 11 & Oct. 8, 2009 for only $210. No contracts, no registration fees, just drop in and exercise!

If you have any questions, please email Debi at debis@strollerstrides.net or call 541.382.1147.

We look forward to striding into fitness with you this summer!

Great opportunity to work from home in Bend!

Mommies! Looking for a legitimate, affordable, money making opportunity that will allow you to stay home with your kids?

Be with your baby, get in great shape and meet other moms! Stroller Strides is the nation's #1 stroller exercise program. With over 800 locations nationwide, it just keeps growing. This program offers stroller exercise classes for pregnant and new mommies and we also offer playgroups and Mom's Night Out.

Stroller Strides of Bend is a turn-key business with an established client base. Here's your opportunity to own your own business and work from home. This is a great partnership opportunity for two or more moms as well.

So what do you get for purchasing an existing Stroller Strides Franchise?
Here is just a short list...

* Active Members and Class Pass Holders (purchaser must honor these passes)
* Brand Awareness!
* Existing Class Locations for both indoor and outdoor classes
* Operations and Marketing Manual
* Class Trac (Attendance Tracking System)
* Existing Marketing relationships with local businesses
* Stroller Strides Business Center includes email, contact management, toll free phone number, voicemail and fax reception, web page and web manager so you can easily edit your own content, exercise library, marketing collateral, calendar and task manager
* Start Up Press Program and ongoing Press Releases with PR Agent
* Tremendous support network from corporate as well as other franchisees across the continent via online chat group.
* New and used equipment
* Marketing and administrative materials









Serious inquiries only. Call Debi at 541-382-1147.
Please visit our website at www.strollerstrides.net/bend

Supper Swapping makes life easy for this Stroller Strides mom

I recently started participating in a Supper Swapping group with 3 other moms. We each have a day of the week, my day is Tuesdays. I cook a pre-determined meal for our family and all of their families as well. They I deliver the meals and I'm done cooking for the week.

None of us had ever done this before and I can honestly say we were a bit skeptical, but we started a couple of weeks ago and it is awesome!

Personally, I am so grateful for the extra time I have each evening to spend with my kids. We can play, watch a video, clean up (not a favorite) and not worry about dinner because it's already made. It's wonderful.

Tomorrow we will get together and discuss how it is going. We also use Facebook to keep track of one another. It's great! ommunity, conversation, exercise, Extra Pounds, fitness, healthy eating, moms,

There are several books out there on the subject if you are interested. We used "The Great American Supper Swap" by Trish Berg. As a wife, mom, friend and Stroller Strides owner and instructor I am always looking for things to make my life a little simpler so I can spend my time doing the things I most enjoy. Supper Swapping has made a marked difference in my life and the life of my family.

Try it!

Stroller Strides of Central Oregon Supports March of Dimes!

I support March of Dimes and I am walking in the 2009 March for Babies. This year I'm doing a DIME DRIVE. Won't you help this year by saving your spare change and donating it?

You can donate by clicking the link above.

Thank you for your support in giving all babies a fighting chance at life!!

You ROCK!

Looking for something quick, easy and healthy to make for dinner?

Check out the new recipes that have been posted on our Stroller Strides of Bend Facebook page. These are tested recipes that your whole family will enjoy - even the little ones.

You can find them in the LINKS section.

Enjoy!

Show me your race face & get SMART

If you've ever taken part in a race or other competition you probably remember that there are 3 major stages. The start, the middle, the finish. You may also picture your face during each of these stages. The excited face at the starting line - all that potential out in front of you. The grimace when the adrenaline has worn off the the finish line is still a ways off. The relieved face when you see the finish line and you can't wait cross it. Or the face of pure joy when you realize you might actually win the race!

It is now the end of February and for many of us we're walking around with our grimace face on. We're just trying to get to the next thing. The holidays are over and we're looking down the road for what comes next. For some it's spring break, for others it's Easter. For the die-hards it's warm weather or summer. As moms it sometimes seems like an endless cycle of cleaning, grocery shopping and dinner preparation interspersed with wonderful memories and milestones as our kids grow up. (If you're like me it might be laced with major clean-ups too - read here a one year old who got into a tub of Vaseline.) This is the middle of the race. The time before the next big thing, whatever that is, arrives.

Personally, I'm in the middle of a healthy living challenge that I started with several other Stroller Strides moms in January. I am plugging along and I am seeing results from making a few key changes in my life, but there is still a ways to go. I've definitely got my grimace face on.



What keeps me going are the SMART goals I have set for myself along the way. I once participated in a cross country ski race. I'm not a ski racer but it sounded like fun. Um. Yeah. As I skied along I realized that it was a lot harder than I had expected but there was no way I could quit. So I started to make little goals for myself along the course. I'd strive to reach a tree, then pass the person in front of me, then go hard and fast for 2 minutes, then not let the person behind me pass me by. Before I knew it I could see the finish line. I got a new burst of energy and I finished strong. I didn't win, but I sure skied a great race.

It was the goals I kept setting that kept me focused and motivated. In my current challenge I have set some specific, measurable, attainable, reasonable and timely goals as I go along. One will come up in a few weeks at my son's second birthday. Another will come up just before the end of the healthy living challenge. And finally after the challenge is over I have a timely long term goal already set to keep me motivated and energized.

goals are:

• Specific
• Measureable
• Attainable
• Reasonable
• Timely

So, make yourself some goals while you are wearing your grimace face around. The only way to change your race face is to make it to the next stage. The only way to make it to the next stage is to get through the stage you are currenly in. The only way to get through it is to set some SMART goals.


Show me your race face and get SMART!

How to get back into life - after having a baby!