Drink to Your Health (and the App That’ll Help You Do It)
The following post is sponsored by Cigna. For our sponsored post policy, click here.
Want to feel better? One of the simplest changes you can make can have a huge impact on your health, and you don’t have to look any further than your own kitchen sink. It’s water! And I’d venture to guess that you could stand to drink a little more of it!
This is a topic that all of us at Fit Bottomed Girls are intensely passionate about, and we recently had a chance to work with Cigna — yep, the global health insurance company — on a two-week hydration program for their expanded Coach by Cigna health and fitness app! Want to get it for yourself? Coach by Cigna is available — free of charge! — in the Google Play store for Samsung Galaxy S6, S6 Edge, Galaxy S5, Galaxy Note 4 and Note Edge mobile devices or any Samsung device with the Lollipop operating system.
So, here’s how it works: The Coach by Cigna app offers a personal integrated health assessment and a variety of programs designed to help you reach whatever goals you might have with exercise, nutrition, sleep, stress or weight. Each program has a coach (like one of us) who will motivate you with short videos, helpful links and simple, straightforward daily goals. For example, in the Coach by Cigna Hydration Program, we’ll help you track your daily hydration intake (right there in the app), give you tools to recognize what proper hydration looks like (and yep, we talk about pee), and provide tips for increasing your water intake day after day.
And, you know us— we have a lot of fun as we go. See how improving your health with more water can be simply refreshing with Coach by Cigna, and be sure to check out some of the other amazing programs. You’ll see a few more from us as well as some from other really incredible health professionals!
Win a $500 Visa Gift Card
To celebrate the Coach by Cigna app expansion, Cigna is sponsoring a sweepstakes featuring a chance to win a $500 Visa Gift Card for a new Samsung Galaxy S6, upgrade or accessories. Contestants are asked a share a healthy selfie and tell @Cigna via Twitter or Instagram how a health coach can help improve their health and wellbeing in five focus areas: exercise, nutrition, sleep, stress or weight.
The Twitter and Instagram #CoachbyCignaSweepstakes is running for six weeks from June 15 to July 27, 2015. Each week a random winner will be selected. To enter, click here.
The Coach by Cigna app is for educational purposes only and intended to promote consumer health. It does not constitute medical advice and is not intended to be a substitute for proper medical care provided by a physician. Always consult with your doctor or other health care professional for appropriate medical treatment and health care recommendations.
Do you need to up your hydration? If not, what other health goals are you currently focused on? I’ll check out your responses in a minute — I need to go refill my water bottle! —Kristen