Team Approach

Team Approach

Many times we begin a new walking, running or exercise program but we fail to stick with it. We might even join a gym with every intention of working it into our daily lives. But it doesn’t happen. Why? We lose our motivation. Our great intentions fall prey to sliding down the scale of our priorities.

There are two primary sources of motivation for the Fit & Faithful program – that inner drive to take care of ourselves and grow AND the encouragement and accountability we can receive from others.

While people can use Fit & Faithful as an individual program and exercise log, doing it with a team of others makes it more fun and vastly improves the odds of sticking with it through each 12 week unit.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 is a wonderfully concise definition of the power of teamwork: “Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help. Again, if two lie together, they keep warm; but how can one keep warm alone? And though one might prevail against another, two will withstand one. A threefold cord is not quickly broken.”

When you begin Fit & Faithful as a congregational program, you will be encouraged to join two teams.

The first team is your personal Fit & Faithful team.

You will create your own Fit & Faithful team by banding together with one or more people who share your goals and interests. Those teams might be husbands and wives, or a group of runners, or three women who join a Jazzercise program together. As teammates, you will work together on identifying your goals and then, throughout the 12 week program, you will stay in touch frequently and get together periodically.

If Fit & Faithful is offered as a congregational program, your other team consists of all of the other participants in the program. You will meet at least once a month, a Fit & Faithful Team Meeting, for encouragement, support and learning.

It is amazing how much it helps, on those days when you just don’t feel like lacing up your running shoes, driving to the gym or heading out for a walk, if you get a phone call from the friend with whom you were planning to do the workout.

That mutual support is what is so often missing in so many exercise programs and you will see that you get it in Fit & Faithful!