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Pam Watts
Great to see so many of you! Please feel free to post your questions in the chat
Sabina Saksena
Cytilife is doing that with Duke and other campuses… giving you real time availability of equipment and utilization
Leslie Dulle
I don't believe we will even know what enrollment will look like until Universities make their final decisions about opening/ being remote, etc..
brennan shirk
In regards to BUDGET as we head towards July 1, KRUActive is a virtual fitness platform that has invested to create a customized campus channel for each college and university for sharing campus fitness programming to students and staff. Your customized channel and the KRUPlatform can be licensed to your community and alumni to create revenues to ADD to your recreation center budget!! We are currently working with several colleges and the potential revenues look AMAZING!
Kelley Hungerford - NIRSA HQ
https://2020recreationmovement.com/
brennan shirk
My contact email is [email protected] if you are interested in learning how KRUActive can assist you please email me and I am happy to discuss your needs and see if KRUActive is a good solution for you
Pam Watts
if others who provide cleaning/sanitation supplies want to share their contact info in the chat it will be saved with the recording
Leslie Dulle
Pam what is the name of Trever's business. I missed it
Chris Allison
Would love to share about Geex.gg, remote digital recreation, and laying a foundation to use esports as you move into the future (while also considering health and wellness of "gamers")! [email protected]
Kelley Hungerford - NIRSA HQ
CFE Services
Pam Watts
CFE Services
PAMELA Hightower
InnoSoft Clients/ Fusion Family, we are joining as many of your webinars as we can and are available to brainstorm and help you make the most of the tools you already have. We have created videos, a dedicated webpage to assist you, and increased our remote availability for Zooms to help you configure. Here is a link to see our latest moves to assist you https://bit.ly/FusionReOpeningTools most specifically with capacity tracking, contactless payments, and access control, and upcoming Zoom and Virtual integration with program registration and attendance tracking.
brennan shirk
As Ryan mentioned with F45, KRU also does a revenue partner program. We offer professional fitness content to coincide with your own fitness content so this can be an immediate solution for offering seamless transitions between virtual classes and group classes once recreation centers re-open
ryan mueller
Ryan Mueller with F45 Training. [email protected] or 805 452 2935. Would love to hear from you and what you are dealing with to offer virtual solutions, and if F45 can be a good fit for your team!
Leah Hall Dorothy
https://cfeservices.co
Leah Hall Dorothy
Trevor’s website
Leah Hall Dorothy
CRE Hygiene Solutions
Trever Cummins
Sabina Saksena
[email protected] smart and safely opening Rec Centers and Athletic areas
Bill Carlson
For facilities with climbing walls, Head Rush Technologies, who makes the TRUBLUE auto belay put together a list of suggestions for climbing gyms getting restarted. This can certainly apply here. https://trublueclimbing.com/blog/climbing-gyms-getting-started-again.html
mark Urlage
Once facilities open, I assume it is going to be super important to find ways to get students and staff safely socializing again- re-engaged in your beautiful centers. Connecting students with other students with creative exercise programs. Would facilities be open to customized programs on Expresso bikes like we created with the Fall Frenzy? We would be willing to activate a special college facility challenge when appropriate.
brennan shirk
KRU is currently offering FREE registration and access to the entire KRU platform complete with PowerMusic, Billy Blanks, INDURO Virtual, just to name a few. Contact me for your campus affiliation code for immediate access to virtual professional fitness videos and customize your own channel to begin streaming, live streaming, and offering on demand videos of your instructors! We encourage engagement for your students, staff and community. www.kruactive.com. Once registered you will see campus channels that we are onboarding and working with to create great content!
Stefani Plummer
@Mark Urlage we would!
Sarah Clem
Sarah with CHAARG here! CHAARG is a female focused health + wellness group that is run by students on different campuses. As a national community, we are really focusing on online workouts through different platforms [zoom, etc] + how we can collaborate with rec centers on promoting the classes they are offering virtually + increasing engagement amongst students for those classes.
For those of you that have CHAARG Chapters already on your campuses -- we’d love to connect with how the Chapter can promote things the rec center is offering + how to increase engagement during this time.
For those who don’t know a lot about CHAARG -- you can learn more here: chaarg.com/chaarg-on-campus
You can reach us at [email protected] if you want to connect!
brennan shirk
Lastly, once your channel has been created KRU has a complete catalog of synch music right music that is high quality and available in 15, 30, and 45min soundtracks for all genres of fitness programming! You can also work with single tracks. We encourage multi-department collaboration with the marketing departments, alumni, media (video / I.T), and music departments so students can contribute music to the music channel for the fitness instructors!
Leslie Dulle
We are also finding we are engaging some non-typical participants
Carolyn Erickson
When you return, would you consider outside classes while you can (weather) to enforce social distancing but still create community?
Derek Hottell
Yes - that is definitely something we are considering
Stefani Plummer
@Carolyn...i love that idea!
Stefani Plummer
we will use our roof!
Sherry Woosley
Sherry Woosley ([email protected]), company website is www.Skyfactor.com. Would love to talk to anyone interested in student surveys, student data, what we're learning about student experience in the remote environment, and how we could help.
Ken Wolters
Core Health & Fitness has a roundtable series partnering with some on this call engaging discussion around these kinds of topics and some solutions to consider as a part of reopening. We are happy to share more info with anyone interested in joining or hearing previous sessions. [email protected]
Marc Iturriaga
Marc Iturriaga from Bonobo Consulting - helping recreation foster a sense of Belonging - where students and participants feel Invited, Welcome and Included in your programs, facilities, and opportunities.
BELONGING in Sport and Recreation can have stronger recruitment and retention of participants leading to:
- Sustainable revenue through membership sales and program registration
- Higher participation rates and word of mouth marketing
- Diverse programs and opportunities
- Stronger connection to community
Essentially, we help institutions shift the lens to PEOPLE over place and programs leading to transformative, sustainable change. We'll help you serve your current students plus understand how to connect and engage with who isn't engaged with you who want to be. contact info: [email protected]
Bill Carlson
For those with climbing walls, auto belays can help contribute to social distancing on climbing walls in the new normal. If anyone would like to discuss I can be reached at [email protected]
Andrea Snead
So true @Derek, I have 2 high school boys in my home and they are looking forward to collegiate activities
Carolyn Erickson
Would you consider students buying their own small accessible equipment so they can still do classes that require equip and so they do not have to share equipment.
PAMELA Hightower
IS anyone considering "checking out" fitness gear to students? My local gym does that and it was really helpful during this time
Stefani Plummer
@Carolyn, yes we spoke today about possibly requiring students to bring their own GX equipment, basketballs, etc.
Max-Swarthmore College (he/him)
Are there any companies putting together a discounted package for college students that can be shipped to their house? (Foam roller, yoga mat, resistance bands, etc.)
John Brey
It would be great to hear from all sizes of schools as to what travel to Regionals or conferences like your partners at AB?
Trever Cummins
@Max, yes Commercial Fitness (CFE Services sister company) has put together a package of foam rollers, bands etc that can be used as ‘checkout’ or shipped directly to students. You can email me at [email protected] and I’ll make sure it gets routed correctly if you are interested
John Brey
Have the Regionals been postponed or cancelled. This information would allow us to shift our budgets to do some of the swag items Laurie talked about sooner then later.
Chuck Rogers
Fullcirclepadding.com has just reopened and been declared an Essential Business to help provide fitness centers with access to replacement padding and parts so equipment can be cleaned properly before opening. Website is user friendly with 1000’s of pics for easy order confirmation.
Janice DeMonsi
@John I believe some are cancelled. We have a travel freeze and I do not think that will be lifted for the fall. Region VI is still on to date but I will not be able to attend
Max-Swarthmore College (he/him)
Region 1 Conference has been canceled for 2020.
Derek Hottell
Region 2 has been cancelled for 2020 as well
Jerrod Jackson
Only Region VI is currently still on.
Allie Bogard
@jerrod beat me to it
Jason Darby
The freezes to travel budgets for the upcoming year was a large factor is us deciding to postpone the Region II Conference.
John Brey
thank you all on the cancellations as I said the information would allow us to change our budgets to help with some of you. I would really like to hear what other ideas you might have for those things [email protected]
brennan shirk
As a way for alumni and community to give to their college, KRU offers each subscriber (Alumni / Community member) a 70% discount. So the $19.98./mo to the entire platform AND your customized channel is only $5.98!! We give $2 per subscriber back to the college for their admin and marketing. This works as a great partnership! An example is 500 subscribers becomes a $1000/mo revenue for your facility!! The can do this while offering students and staff access to the platform. The opportunities and revenues are endless. It really is a perfect business model as it is a win-win-win for everyone.
Ken Wolters
we're partnering on that step challenge as well as one in Michigan to donate Schwinn bike for winner(s)
ryan mueller
@Max-swarthmore college - yes, F45 offers small equipment packs, that go in conjunction with our workouts, but can be used for other workouts as well. I can be reached at [email protected] or 8054522935 if you have any questions/want to see the equipment list.
Clint Menefee
Great point Pam! I am healthier for this.
Mary Catherine Martinez
I have worked out more after the pandemic than in the previous few years :) The virtual programming is soooo much easier for me to join!
ryan mueller
As an aside and Curtis’s comments about nutrition, the F45 Challenge App provides meal plans and Nutrition, an accountability tracker, access to blogs from certified nutritionalists, workouts and sports specific training - all on demand.
Carolyn Erickson
My Zone competition between campuses across the country... They would totally do it
ryan mueller
And maybe a virtual workout with Mark Whalberg lol!
Marc Iturriaga
Bravo @Chris Allison - that bridge is ESSENTIAL if Rec chooses to be facilitators of esports.
John Brey
I would be happy to be on a group chat about what we can do as a group to help support Regionals now that they will be cancelled for this year.
Adam Pruett
Maybe Physical Fitness Scoring that then gets you add ons or upgrades in various games??
Ken Wolters
A partner of ours, Holofit, has a cool device for a VR experience on stationary equipment
Nora White
VR workouts could be a great bridge
Mackenzie McIntyre
Our students at Xavier love the Expresso bikes for gaming and working out together in the rec!
Greg Durham
Trying to find ways to connect enthusiastic Fifa players with your enthusastic soccer players on campus might be a solid first start
Josh Downing - Butler University
Gaming and TikTok is that generations social network. Huge opportunities!
MC Martinez - Innosoft Fusion
Recreating a TikTok dance is definitely exercise, lol!
Chris Allison
I am going to repurpose our weekly help webinar for a discussion on this next Thursday - brainstorm some ideas together. Feel free to join at https://zoom.us/webinar/94706796465 !
[email protected] for anyone that wants to connect!
Erin Sanders
@chris what time?
Andrea Snead
I think something that also is missed is esports is quite ethnically diverse.
Stefani Plummer
@Andrea great point!
Leah Hall Dorothy
Yes Andrea
Chris Allison
Yeeeees^^ Video games cross social, gender, ethnic, etc. divides in an unprecedented way :)
Stefani Plummer
@Jeff great point. we "plan" to film our classes so people can attend in person or in their res hall with their roommates
Leah Hall Dorothy
Great point! and there is such a sense of community in the gaming industry - we need to learn from them
Amy Thompson
My first IHRSA call. Thank you for all you are doing to support colleges. If IDEA can help you, please reach out [email protected].
Ken Wolters
Roundtable series with next session on mental health & wellbeing next week:
Amy Thompson
NIRSA call
Kelley Hungerford - NIRSA HQ
Please let us know if another roundtable like this would be helpful to you!
Ken Wolters
roundtables: https://info.corehandf.com/education-virtual
Roger Watson
Thank you.
Chris Allison
Thanks for the input on esports and wellness!!
Matt Schuster
Thank you All! Be safe