Wellness Resources

RU Employee Plus One Recreation Membership

Do you want to work out with someone who is not a Rutgers affiliate? You can sponsor an adult over 18 with an RU Employee Plus One Recreation membership. Membership includes access to all five recreation/fitness centers, over 100 fitness and wellness classes, a free guest pass, and a gym lot parking permit. For more details, please visit our membership site here.

You can also contact Heather Hommel at heather.hommel@rutgers.edu with any questions.

RU ACTIVE?

Exercise is Medicine® On Campus (EIM-OC) calls upon universities and colleges to promote physical activity as a vital sign of health. EIM-OC encourages faculty, staff, and students to work together to improve the campus community's health and well-being! For questions about our EIM-OC programs, please contact Bethann Wittig at bethann.wittig@rutgers.edu.

STEP CHALLENGE

THE GOAL IS TO LOG 70,000 STEPS PER WEEK FROM OCTOBER 17 – OCTOBER 31

• Join the challenge and log your steps every day
• See you and your friends on the leaderboard
• Receive info about staying active & improving your well-being at Rutgers University
• Amazon gift cards are raffled to anyone who logs steps ($25) AND to those who
• complete the challenge ($50)!
• FREE! Pre-registration required.
• Register here.

INBODY FRIDAYS

InBody is a worldwide leader in body composition technology: a non-invasive test that will provide weight, lean mass, BMI, Basal metabolic rate, and more. Set up a free account with your first test and track your results throughout your years at Rutgers!

10 Minute drop-in sessions with our certified personal trainers throughout the month:

• OCTOBER 14 • 2–5PM: Cook/Douglass Recreation Center, Fitness Center
• OCTOBER 21 • 2–5PM: Livingston Recreation Center, Fitness Center
• OCTOBER 28 • 2–5PM: Werblin Recreation Center, Fitness Center
• NOVEMBER 4• 2–5PM: College Avenue Gym, Fitness Center

RU ACTIVE REWARDS

GET PRIZE POINTS FOR ATTENDING FITNESS & WELLNESS CLASSES

Recreation provides free access to over 100 fitness & wellness classes per week at all four rec centers. View daily classes here or download the RU REC2GO App.

• Receive 1 point for every class you attend. Please complete the self-check-in process by scanning the QR code in each fitness room before class begins.

• Each point = 1 entry into the weekly raffle

• Winners will be announced weekly (10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31)

• Prizes include Athleta® shop cards, Massage Therapy gift certificates & more!

FREE! Pre-registration required.    Register here.

Walking Route 1: 0.67 Miles / 15 Minutes

Begin at the main entrance of Cabfare and walk down Institute the left side of the building following the windows to the elevator.

Take the elevator to the 3rd floor. For extra steps, consider taking the stairs. Proceed across the bridge and bear right towards the hospital atrium.

Follow the hallway around towards the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Main entrance. 

Past the main entrance and follow the hallway around towards the Children’s Hospital. 

Pass the Children’s Hospital main entrance and proceed towards CHI.  Once you reach the Entrance to the clinical area of the Child Health you would have walked .3 miles (1583feet).

If you begin from the main entrance of the MEB you would have walked .2 miles (1105 feet).

On a rainy day you can do the exact route in the opposite direction and you will have walked a little over half a mile (.6). 

On a beautiful day, continue on the path outside of the Child Health Institute and proceed down the stairs and down French Street toward the train station.

If you cross over French Street to the main entrance of the CAB you will have walked almost half a mile (.45). 

For a longer stretch, walk down French Street and turn right onto Joyce Kilmer Avenue.  Proceed to Paterson Street and make a right at Destination Dogs.

Head up the street back to the main entrance of the Clinical Academic Building. This entire trip is .67 of a mile. This entire trip should take you about 15 minutes. 

Consider doing this daily to get in your daily step goal!