Are you ready to up your step for this year's challenge?
In 2016 we had a record number of sign ups with 169 teams totalling 856 employees completing the challenge across all services. This year we would like to increase that number again, so would encourage you to share, recruit and drum up as much interest as possible.
You could have individual/team challenges with colleagues in the workplace, or better still work as a team to motivate each other to be more active. After all, it’s a challenge which aims to make us strive to being more physically active, especially if you aren’t already.
We have acted upon feedback of previous years and now cut the duration of the challenge from 8 weeks to 6 weeks, hoping it will be more manageable and help keep everyone engaged right until the end.
With thanks to the Strategy Development team we have been able to acquire some more pedometers for loaning to participants. However these are in limited quantities and as before we would strongly advise that if you have a wearable pedometer device or a smart phone then these are better options. Did you know that smartphones have movement sensors and studies have shown them to be more accurate? There are numerous free apps you can download or some newer smartphones already have a health programme installed which counts your steps.
The important details:
- Open to Aberdeenshire Council employees only
- Teams of 5 (Teams of 4 & 6 are ok with an average team score calculated)
- Sign up by the closing date of April 24, 2017
- Starts on May 1, 2017
- Finishes June 11, 2017 (6 weeks)
- Various prizes up for grabs
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