Fitness Challenge for Work

NoExcusesAllProgress

Good Morning everyone! I was thinking about running a fitness challenge at work and I need some insight or suggestions. We had a biggest loser type competition a few months back that was sponsored by the company. Although winning is motivation, the thought that you paid money to enter and might lose that money wasn't a factor. I recently read someones post about how they would weigh in weekly and you paid to weigh in. Each week someone won a small prize and at the end whoever won the most got a big pot. Does anyone have any ideas or has anyone been in something similar that could give me some ideas?

NoExcusesAllProgress

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portergolf

We are in the middle of our 3 month weight loss challenge at work. Its not a fitness challenge, i assume you would be doing activitiy competitions with times or reps in a fitness challenge. I will tell you about ours.


We have 19 people and we all paid $25 entry fee. Below is the rules sheet I sent out.


WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE – Rules and information (Please reply with confirmation of your participation – list of participants is below)

Contest Goal: In this contest we are measuring the percent of body weight lost not total pounds lost. The winner will be determined by the person who loses the highest percentage of body weight.

Initial Weigh In: Monday November 26, 2012 at 10:30AM in my office.

Weigh In Procedure: At the initial weigh in everyone will be photographed so we can have picture for progress and also note what clothing was worn at the weigh in. At the final weigh in participants will be expected to wear similar clothing. (At the initial weigh-in you are wearing a bulky sweater you will have to wear it at the final weigh in)

Measuring Device: We will use a digital scale and measure to the tenth of a pound this should keep things consistent. Everyone will weigh in on the same scale at the same time.

Final Weigh In: Tuesday February 26th, 2013 at 10:00am

Progress Weigh Ins: Will occur every 2 weeks at 11:00am in my office.

Entry Fee: $25 fee which “MUST” be paid at the first weigh in.

Grand Prize: The winner of the grand prize will be the person who loses the largest percentage of body weight.
o Total Pot: $475
o 1st Place: $375
o 2nd Place: $75
o 3rd Place $25

Bi-Weekly progress weigh in Contest: We will have bi-weekly weigh-ins to monitor progress. The winner of the Bi-weekly progress pot is the individual who lost the highest percentage over the prior two week period.

Fees for bi-weekly weigh in:
• Each contestant will pay a $1 fee at the bi-weekly weigh in.
• You will incur a penalty fee of $1 if your weight stays the same.
• You will incur a penalty fee of $1 for each pound gained starting at .1 lbs increase
• You will incur a penalty fee of $1 if you miss weighing in for any reason. ($2 total will be due)

Bi-Weekly
Weight Increase Penalty
.1-1.0 $1
1.1-2.0 $2
2.1-3.0 $3
3.1-4.0 $4
4.1 and higher $5

Tie Breakers: (Weighing to the tenth the odds of a tie are unlikely but I wanted to include tiebreaker rules)
• Grand Prize: In the unlikely event there is a tie for the Grand Prize the winners will split the prize money.
• Bi-Weekly contest: The individual with the higher amount of pounds lost will be declared the bi-weekly winner.

Missed Weigh-In:
If you miss a weigh-in challenge you are not eligible to win the following challenge
• If you miss a weigh-in you are required to weigh-in at the next challenge date to reestablish your new baseline.
• If you know you are going to be unavailable on the Weigh-in day you may weigh-in a day early.
• Missed weigh-in fee $2.
• You will be required to pay the $1 weigh-in fee even if you are ineligible to win the challenge and are only reestablishing your baseline.

Bi-Weekly Weigh-in Challenges:
o 1st progress weigh-in: Monday 12/3/2013 9:30am
o Progress Weigh-in Schedule
 1st Weigh in: Monday 12/3/2012
 2nd Weigh in: Monday 12/17/2012
 3rd Weigh In: Monday 1/7/2013
 4th Weigh In: Monday 1/21/2013
 5th Weigh In: Monday 2/4/2013 (Team Challenge $2 weigh in)
• 2-person Teams will be selected after the 4th Weigh in
• Teams will be picked by pairing the contestants based on their standings after the 4th weigh in (Pairings: 1 & 18, 2&17, 3&16…… 8&9)
• Total team percentage lost will win this challenge
•Each player will pay $2 for this weigh in
 6th Weigh In: Monday 2/18/2013
 Final Weigh In: Tuesday 2/26/2013