Shape Up Challenge
Celebrating 10 years!
The Shape Up Challenge is designed to increase your employees' awareness about their health. It's a friendly competition where employees earn points for adopting healthy habits such as getting enough sleep, exercising, and eating right. Individual points are combined to form an average for each worksite. Worksites then submit their points to Medica to be eligible for incentives and award.
To participate:
- Identify a site coordinator
- Report your employees' point average each week
Medica's sponsorship for your company provides:
- A site coordinator manual
- All campaign materials. (Score cards are included. You can download and print other materials as needed.)
- Weekly prize drawings for employers
- Weekly prize drawings for employees who qualify and report their points to Medica
- Opportunity to order individual incentives for your employees (these are optional and paid for by you).
2012 Medica Shape Up Challenge Fact Sheet
What is the Shape Up Challenge?
The Shape Up Challenge is our most popular worksite wellness event. This friendly competition rewards employees for adopting healthy habits, such as getting enough sleep, exercising and eating right.
When is the Shape Up Challenge?
The 2012 Medica Shape Up Challenge runs for six weeks: April 9 to May 20, 2012.
How do employees earn points?
During the six weeks of the campaign, participants earn points by engaging in healthy lifestyle behaviors (see examples below). Individual participant points are combined to form a grand total and then an average point total is determined for each worksite. Participants earn points for wellness activities that they complete each day.
Points are earned in the following categories:
- Eat 5 – Eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables each day
- Sleep 7 – Get at least seven hours of sleep each night
- Take 10 – Take time to relax at least 10 minutes each day
- Move 30 – Exercise for 30 minutes each day
- 4 Others – Do one random act of kindness each day
Will there be prizes and incentives?
Yes! Medica will conduct prize drawings each week for both employer groups participating and Medica members that participate. A grand prize will be awarded to the worksite with the highest average number of points for their employees. Worksites may also purchase Shape Up Challenge incentives for your own program.
New this year: Medica members will have the opportunity to submit their ideas for helping others and earn a chance to win a gift card. Also, Medica members can log their weekly points and be eligible for weekly $100 drawings and a grand prize drawing of $500 will be available for all who qualify.
How much does it cost?
Shape Up Challenge program materials, trainings and incentives are provided free to qualifying companies.
How does my worksite qualify?
Your company will qualify if you meet the following criteria:
- A Shape Up Challenge coordinator is identified at the time of registration.
- You report your average participant points each week.
How does my worksite participate in the Shape Up Challenge?
- Recruit a program coordinator to organize the campaign at your worksite.
- Register by using the Registration tab above.
- Attend a Shape Up Challenge coordinator training — training begin in February.
What happens after I register?
Registration provides you with the following:
- Coordinator Training - Learn how to implement the Shape Up Challenge, share ideas with other worksites, and learn about Medica's health promotion programs.
- Implementation packet - Learn how to implement the Shape Up Challenge, share ideas with other worksites, and learn about Medica's health promotion programs. All materials will be posted online.
- Campaign materials - Promotional materials, poster, scorecards, award certificate and other materials.
- Educational materials - Six weekly newsletters and numerous handouts, activities and games (all copy-ready for distribution).
- Medica-wide competition - Participating companies can track their progress against other Medica participating Shape Up Challenge registrants and win prizes.
Please plan to attend one of the following WebEx trainings:
New Coordinators
- Wednesday, February 15, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
- Tuesday, February 21, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
- Thursday, March 1, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Experienced coordinator/Sharing Session
- Tuesday, February 21, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
- Monday, March 5, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
- Thursday, March 15, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
What has been the experience of employer groups participating in the past?
We're proud of the success that this campaign had in the past years and would like to encourage more companies to get involved.
Here's what employers who completed the evaluation had to say about the 2012 Shape Up Challenge*:
- 97% responded that their overall experience with the Shape Up Challenge program was either excellent (31%), very good (54%) or good (12%).
- 99% responded that they would recommend the Shape Up Challenge to other employer groups.
*An evaluation was sent to 200 worksites, 162 were completed and returned (81% response).
Company Testimonies
- "Easy to administer, can be done inexpensively, great support materials, great program to increase awareness of health related issues and great morale boost as well."
- "The list of activities from all the organizations summarized in one place was incredibly useful - not only for this year, but also for planning for next year. As we have NO budget for this, it's nice to get ideas about no/low cost options! Thanks for doing this; it's a great program."
- "I really appreciate everything that Medica does to make the challenge a success! Thanks so much!"
- "Medica is great and this program is very easy to coordinate. Thanks for doing such a great job!"
- "The employees look forward to it every year for a jump start to healthier living in the spring."
- "Our company lost 97 pounds!"