The Own Your Own Health 13-week wellness challenge gets started today. The state health department organizes the competition which allows a group of people to form a team that can compete against others in step and weight loss challenges.
“It’s really fun, people from across the country are participating as well as across the state, so we have thousands in the system right now that are signed up,” said Rudy Macklin, director of the Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
Macklin says there are also individual participant challenges for casual steppers and an elite individual challenge for serious fitness enthusiasts. He says in the team competition, each team picks a captain and they help keep track of the group’s steps or weight loss efforts.
“And it’s up to the captain to keep everybody motivated and also we send motivational stuff to everybody by email,” said Macklin.
Macklin says participating individuals and teams can see how they measure up against others on the Own Your Own Health website. Participants have a chance to win a prize which will be given out every Friday. He says even though the competition starts today, you can still sign up, but do so by the end of the week.
“The ones that come back every year they get into big time and so to keep up with them, you better sign up quickly,” said Macklin.
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