Health & wellness
BY DUSTIN BUTLER
Health & Wellness Edition 2025
Richardson readers, welcome to your 2025 Health and Wellness edition! Welcome to our rst Health and Wellness edition. This guide was put together to serve as a resource for readers looking to live healthier in 2025. The goal of this guide is to bring you news on full-body wellness, developing healthy habits and preventive care—with all the stories compiled by our team of local journalists. We hope you nd our special section useful.
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Richardson promotes health through community challenge
Heights Recreation Center
Richardson residents will have several oppor- tunities for healthy living thanks to the Healthier Texas Community Challenge. How it works The Healthier Texas Community Challenge, which was previously called It’s Time Texas Com- munity Challenge, is an eight-week health compe- tition between communities. The challenge is free to participate in and runs from Jan. 13-March 9. Texans who participate will earn points by eating healthy, being active and staying hydrated. Participants can earn points in a number of ways, including reporting healthy eating, physical activity and water consumption. Additionally, anyone who signs up before the challenge starts will be awarded 250 points and everyone who signs up will receive 500 points when they report their rst health action. Each week, individual participants will have a chance to win a prize and at the end of the
Hu ines Recreation Center
ARAPAHO RD.
12pm, Feb. 1 Dance tness 12pm, Feb. 15 Functional Fitness 12pm, Feb. 16 Yoga
12pm, Feb. 2 Flexibility 12pm,Feb. 9 Drum Cardio 12pm, Feb. 23 Drum Cardio
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accrued 1.3 million points with 185 individual participants. Additionally, Wake eld said Richard- son parks and other facilities had 1,035 check-ins, meaning visits, through the challenge. “We’re de nitely looking to increase because we have beautiful parks to o er in our city,” Wake eld said. Statewide, 362 communities participated in the challenge last year.
competition, winning communities and school dis- tricts will be celebrated and recognized, Wake eld said. The city will o er several activities such as free group classes in city facilities including yoga, dance tness, nutritional and cooking, drum cardio and functional tness, according to city documents. Looking back Wake eld said last year Richardson residents
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