Walk Georgia
Text Only Script: ****** --- Descriptive Text The video opens to an informational slide then changes from Sanford Stadium to a girl ringing the chapel bell to Dawson Hall to a sign in front of Dawson Hall. The video moves from Dr. Deborah Murray talking to people walking in a park to people running down stairs to a person gardening to someone walking up stairs to someone sweeping to someon running on a treadmill to people doing yoga. The video continues from Maria Bowie talking to the Walk GA web site to Connie Crawley talking to Bowie talking to someone using an app on a smart phone to Murray talking to people walking on a sidewalk to Bowie talking to people at a track. The video changes from someone running on a track to a lady walking outside to Tammy VanDuncan talking to VanDuncan walking to Lisa Plank talking to people doing yoga to Plank talking to VanDuncan talking to people hiking at Stone Mountain. The video moves from VanDuncan talking to someone hiking to Plank talking to VanDuncan taking pictures and walking to boys playing football to Murray talking to VanDuncan talking to VanDuncan walking with another woman to VanDuncan talking. The video continues from Crawley talking to a boy on a slide to kids riding bicycles to kids running to Murray talking to the Coca-Cola building to a sign at UGA to people in front of a fountain to Crawley talking to people entering the Ramsey Center. The video changes from Bowie talking to people walking to Bowie talking to someone riding a stationary bike to people swimming laps to VanDuncan talking to people walking to VanDuncan drinking water to Plank talking to VanDuncan talking. The video moves from VanDuncan walking with a group to Bowie talking to someone doing yoga. The video ends with the Walk Georgia logo and the Coca-Cola Foundation logo. 2015 University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Office of Communications and Creative Services
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[ Background sounds - Birds chirping, bell rings ]
>> Deborah Murray: At the university, we can devise ways
to work with people at the local level to make a difference.
From that emerged the Walk Georgia idea that if you could
get people interested in learning about the state that
they live in and connect that with the number of steps they
take, the physical activity that they can engage in with
gardening, walking, doing housework, really concentrating
on improving the amount of physical activity that you get.
>> Maria Bowie: We worked together in 2008 to launch the
nation's first online fitness program for
a land-grant university in the country.
>> Connie Crawley: Well our agents from very strongly
convinced that an online program was the only way we should do it.
>> Bowie: They like the accountability.
Having to log on and track their time helps them see
how active they really are being.
>> Murray: Our focus, really, are those who have a lot of
barriers in their way to become physically active.
>> Bowie: Anyone can walk, virtually anyone.
>> Tammy VanDuncan: I love walking.
I didn't used to.
It used to be more of a chore.
If you said “exercise,” I would run the other way.
It's really easy to find an excuse for not getting up and
moving but now because of Walk Georgia if I go a couple days
without walking, I start to feel it.
>> Lisa Plank: Walk Georgia has challenged me to find new ways
to exercise, new ways that I can look at exercise.
My garden has gotten bigger every year because I can log
the hours that I spend in the garden as part of
my activity for Walk Georgia.
>> VanDuncan: The feature that I really like about the program
is that you get to walk virtually through Georgia.
You get to follow your path based on how many steps you've
made; you get to visit a new county.
>> Plank: As you go through each county, it will give
you a little fact so I learned all about
the different parts of the state.
>> Murray: It's really focused on making families healthier.
>> VanDuncan: My daughter is a college student and now she'll
walk places where she might have driven before.
It has gotten all of us out and moving.
>> Crawley: It's much easier to prevent obesity than
to treat obesity.
If we can make those changes when they're, you know, 12, 15;
that's going to make a huge difference on
our health care costs.
>> Murray: The only way to really address some of these
really difficult health issues is in partnering.
Partnering is the only way to change the world.
>> Crawley: Coca-Cola became involved with Walk Georgia
because their chief science officer made
a visit to the campus.
They were trying to get people to think more about
fitness and we were already doing that.
>> Bowie: We've been able to hire dedicated staff
to truly build a system that’s scalable out to over
one hundred thousand users.
The bigger picture is an improvement to health
that we know is happening.
>> VanDuncan: Because of the program, I've decided to live
a healthier life and because of that I've lost 20 pounds,
I’ve decreased my blood pressure.
>> Plank: It's a lot easier for me to run five miles now
than it was when I started.
>> VanDuncan: I want to be around for my grandkids and
I want my kids to be healthier.
>> Bowie: All this work is so worth it, you know,
it's so worth it to really make a difference in people's lives.
