Divisions

Team Captain

SHAPE UP.GAME ON.

MANKATO FAMILY YMCAwww.mankatoymca.org/shape-up-challenge

To identify the division your team is placed under please follow this guideline:

Division Participant TotalI 5-10II 11-25III 26-50IV 51-100

Each team must designate a team captain. The team captain’s job entails:

• Promote the Shape-Up Challenge at their worksites.

• Recruit team members.

• Register the team and sign up team members.

• Order the t-shirts.

*** Please register your team and teammates and order t-shirts all at the same time. No changes to any aspect of registration will be made after August 1.

• Pick up t-shirts at the Mankato Family YMCA Lifecenter desk.

* Team Captains will be notified by the YMCA when the t-shirts are available to be picked up.

• Display the worksite weekly minutes A spreadsheet will be provided by the YMCA that you may choose to print and enlarge at your company.

• Announcing the Shape-Up Challenge Events This is a schedule of classes that are offered by the Y, FREE and on a DAILY basis to Shape-Up Challenge participants for the four weeks of competition.

• Adding up and logging the weekly team totals.

• Report weekly totals by noon Tuesday to the Mankato Family YMCA at:

www.mankatoymca.com/shape-up-challenge

How to get started Registration Fee

Rules & Regulations

What is the Shape-Up Challenge?

Eligibility

Team Member

The Shape-Up Challenge is a fun physical activity competition where you and your co-workers compete against other local businesses and organizations for the grand prize! Participants will exercise daily (or on most days of the week), and record their minutes of physical activity each day, which they then report to their company’s team captain. The team captain is designated by each individual organization, and is responsible for reporting the minutes to the YMCA on a weekly basis. Each week, one team per division will be entered into a drawing for the grand prize. To be entered to win, your team must accumulate the highest numbers of average minutes of physical activity weekly. The team that accumulates the most minutes at the end of the four weeks, and the team that wins the weekly drawings will be the winners of the competition.

Full and part-time employees are allowed to participate. Any formal sub-division or department of a business or organization may be entered as a separate team. Participants may only be affiliated with one team.

The challenge runs from October 3 through October 31, 2016. Create a team and designate a team captain. Please have the team captain register the team and order t-shirts online before August 1, 2016 by going online to: www.mankatoymca.com/shape-up-challenge. The registration window will begin July 18, 2016, and will end on August 1, 2016. Changes to teams, t-shirts, or any aspect of the registration process will not be made after August 1, 2016.

The number of participant’s ____x 5.00 (10 participants x $5.00= $50.00)

*The Mankato Family YMCA will bill your business/ organization the registration fee and t-shirt amount. Please withhold from sending payments in advance.

Each team member will be responsible for recording their daily minutes of physical activity and handing their results to the team captain at the end of each week.

• For the purpose of the Shape-Up Challenge, exercise is defined as: “Ongoing physical activity that reaches moderate intensity, is rhythmic, continuous and uses large muscle groups.”

• Only personal exercise outside of work hours may be recorded.

• One minute of exercise = one point

• Examples of approved exercise:Racquetball, tennis, swimming, weight training, rowing, volleyball, jumping rope, ice skating, golf without a cart*, mowing with a push mower, softball*, raking, walking, biking, group exercise classes, running, inline skating, roller blading, etc.

*Golf without a cart: 9 holes= 120 minutes, 18 holes= 240 minutes

*Softball: 60 minutes per game

• Examples of exercise that do not qualify:Cleaning, shopping, painting, golfing with a cart, riding a lawn mower, horseback riding and any physical activity on the job.

• During this competition, members of the Shape-Up Challenge are encouraged to participate in the special Mankato Family YMCA Shape-Up Challenge events. Check out the Shape-Up Challenge Calendar for a schedule of these events. This will be posted on the online Shape-Up Challenge website at www.mankatoymca.org/shape-up-challenge

These events include both land and water classes.

• If you attend these classes you acquire bonus points. Your points are doubled for the minutes attended at these classes.

Ex: 60 minutes of physical activity + 60 bonus points = 120 points!

• Schedule exercise into your day. Try to complete a minimum of 30 minutes of continuous exercise each day or break it up into three 10-minute sessions.

• Make exercise fun by getting co-walkers involved. Create a “buddy system” to keep each other motivated.

• Try to attend all Mankato Family YMCA events offered to Shape-Up Challenge Participants. Events are open to members and non-members of the Mankato Family YMCA.

• Have FUN!

Please contact Barb Mullally, Corporate Fitness Specialist at: bmullally@mankatoymca.org

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