The 2016 TD Tour is Approaching! We are looking forward to visiting our twenty-two Philadelphia TD Bank Branches! We love talking and getting to know TD Employees and getting tours of the different branches and sometimes even helping customers out with their transactions! 

Between Monday, May 16, 2016 and Friday, June 24th, stop by your local TD Bank to support the Special Olympics movement! For a $5 (or more) donation to Special Olympics, you will receive your choice of the “Play Unified. Live Unified” wristband OR *new this year*, a set of TD Bank’s new “2016 Special Olympics Athlete Trading Cards” at select locations! This year, TD Bank has partnered with Special Olympics to create cards featuring athletes from Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C.! Each card includes an action shot of the athlete on the front and a bio and more information on a program Special Olympics offers. Special Olympics Philadelphia is very excited to have four of our athletes featured: #10 is Allie Rutizer, #21 is Dadly Thenor, #28 is Ian Capacio, and #35 is Sharon Quarles.

To grab a set of cards, visit www.meetourathletes.org for the TD locations that will have cards.

 

Collect them all!

 

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WeTrain takes over practice to give our athletes an edge for future competition. WeTrain brought their high energy and love for working out to shake up our athlete’s basketball practice on Wednesday, March 9th. WeTrain, an on-demand personal training company, split our athletes into two groups to give our athletes a more personalized workout session. While one group worked on their basketball skills, the other group rotated through stations to shake up their routine workout and learn new exercises and after our athletes completed the rotation, the groups switched.

WeTrain took their most popular workout categories and made them into stations for our athetes and in each station, our athletes each got personal attention to ensure they were doing each exercise with the proper form. At the end of each group’s circit- WeTrain tested our athletes’ speed by playing Sharks and Minnows and at the very end of the night, both group came together to play Knock Out – with an impromptu dance party happening as athletes and trainers alike waited to knockout each other! 

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Station 1: Basketball Skills

30 seconds each:

  1. Squat hold w/jumps
  2. Line hops
  3. Squat hold w/dribbles
  4. Side Shuffles

Station 2: Stretch

30 seconds each:

  1. Sitting toe touches
  2. Butterflies
  3. Single Leg Crossover
  4. Arm Stretch

Station 3: Core

30 seconds each:

  1. Superman’s
  2. Plank w/alternate leg lift
  3. Side planks
  4. Show lace crunches

Station 4: Strength

30 seconds each:

  1. Kneeling push-ups
  2. Mountain Climbers
  3. Kneeling push-up ladders
  4. Half Burpee

Station 5: Yoga

30 seconds each:

  1. Cobra
  2. Downward Dog
  3. Warrior
  4. Forward fold
 

Game: 

  1. Sharks and Minnows
  2. Knock Out
   

 

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