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A Cincinnati VA fitness challenge inspires Veterans to improve their health through fitness trackers and the Share My Health Data app.

Team RWB is looking for Veterans to participate in a research study on post-service health and fitness experience and how technology supports the journey. Selected participants will receive a $100 Amazon gift card.

Register for the Sports4Vets Throwdown, a virtual adaptive fitness event.

VA is accepting applications from Veterans interested in participating in the 2021 National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic. Applications are available online at www.summersportsclinic.va.gov. The deadline to submit an application is May 1, 2021. Participation is open to eligible Veterans receiving care at any VA medical facility.

Starting on June 17, complete the 1776 challenge by performing daily exercises and goals with Team RWB and Veterans across the country virtually. Finishers get a free patch! Veterans get a free Nike t-shirt for signing up with Team RWB.

Team Red, White and Blue is focused on creating quality relationships and experiences that contribute to life satisfaction and overall well-being. The concept of enrichment consists of three core components—health, people, and purpose—that comprise a rich life. The non-profit organization has open membership for Veterans, their families, caregivers and anyone in the community who would like to support Veterans.

The new Warrior Fitness Park was dedicated at the Temple VA in Texas on Feb. 19 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the occasion.

After witnessing his father deteriorate from the Vietnam war the author, also a Vietnam Navy Veteran, shares his backstory and passion for non-profit work.

The National Veterans Wheelchair Games is co-presented by VA and Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA).  The games serve Veterans with spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, amputations and other central neurological impairments with the goal to increase their independence, healthy activity and quality of life through wheelchair sports and recreation.

The U.S. National Sled Hockey Team, which includes four Marine Corps Veterans, claimed gold at the 2015 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships in Buffalo, New York on Sunday. The team earned its fourth consecutive shutout with a 3-0 victory over Canada. Team USA includes Marine Corps Veterans Luke McDermott, Josh Misiewicz, Paul Schaus and Josh Sweeney.

“My wife and kids have volunteered at the National Veterans Wheelchair Games for the past four years,” says Peterson, whose more than 30 years as a government contractor includes work with the military and the Department of Veterans Affairs. “It’s been important to us and our extended families to serve our veterans.”

Through it all, this is what I’ve learned: adaptive sports can take you from a place where you see no future to a place where you determine your own. But let me be clear: there is no single roadmap to recovery. No one can prescribe a single drug or a single treatment to make you whole again. Your best recovery will come from the methods that work best for you. The sooner you embrace that idea, the quicker you’ll recover.