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Exercise challenges display “Exceptional exercisers” – listing of individuals exercising at least 3 days/week and 30 minutes/day at the conclusion.

Winning team/teammates or individual at the conclusion of a competition challenge.

Individual standings within team challenges can be hidden if you wish.

Standings / rankings – real-time from the user’s dashboard & weekly via email.

What’s your Get Moving Challenge success story? Share it with us. Rheum Racers won the team category for weight loss percentage. Team “Rheum Racers,” a group of staff and faculty within the Rheumatology and Immunology Division, had the highest average percentage of weight lost, dropping 4.4 percent of weight per person. “Having the Get Moving Challenge was such great motivation.” “Starting the year off with this success is perfect,” she said. She took breaks to walk a friend’s dog or walk with coworkers in or around the downtown DCRI office building. “My support system at work helped kick start this process.”Ĭoleman began her new fitness plan by cutting most carbs and taking two walks daily. “Creating a healthier version of me is something I’m very committed to this year,” said Coleman, an administrative manager with Duke Clinical Research Institute. She was determined to lose weight but didn’t realize how well she was doing until coworkers started to congratulate her on leading the Get Moving Challenge.Ĭoleman lost 16.8 percent of her body weight, totaling 38 pounds, to win the individual title for most percentage weight lost in the competition. Michelle Coleman set a New Year’s resolution to live healthier. “The Get Moving Challenge always comes at a great time because it encourages you to start the year off being active,” she said.

Gambill promised a pizza party if they won. Gambill was also part of the Get Moving team, “Page Road.” Page Road came in first in the team category for the average number of exercise minutes with 6,899. She tried to get about 20 to 30 miles worth of steps in every day. “Every day brought new, beautiful scenery.”Īfter Gambill returned from vacation, she bookended each day with a walk or run. “You basically hike from one beautiful lake to a glacier or a mountain,” she said. Gambill started this year’s Get Moving Challenge in January with a 55-mile hike in the Patagonia region of Chile over five days. Gambill, a physician assistant at Duke Orthopaedics, was last year’s champion for most steps and exercise minutes. It was encouraging to see my name near the top of the leaderboard.”Ĭara Gambill took home the title for most minutes of exercise for an individual with 24,182 minutes. “Once I started keeping up this fast pace I couldn’t stop. “I want to instill in my life the habit of exercising,” Thomason said. During the work day, she took breaks and walked around the Children’s Hospital and Duke Medicine Pavilion.Ī self-described fast walker, Thomason tried to get in at least 12 miles worth of steps in daily. She would then head to the gym to fit in more time on the treadmill and elliptical. “We’d try to fill in little 10-minute breaks by walking up and down steps or taking a lap around the hospital.”Ĭharon Thomason, a patient service associate in Duke Children’s Hospital, was the individual winner with 3,860,060 total steps. “We had a big group text chain to keep each other posted on how we were getting our steps in,” Cox said. Each team member ran five to seven days a week, walked their dogs and got in steps during the workday by walking around the Duke Health campus. Morgan Cox, house staff member in the General Surgery Residency Program and team leader, said her group was fueled by competition. “Surgery-GenSurg-The Lactated Ringers” logged an average of 1,159,403 steps.

Individual and team winners were declared in each of the following categories: average number of steps, exercise minutes and percentage of weight lost.Ī team of surgeons took home the title for highest average number of steps taken in the team category. This year’s 10-week Get Moving Challenge, which began in January, drew 341 teams and 3,288 participants. “I am very proud of everyone’s hard work and dedication in making this year’s Get Moving Challenge such an overwhelming success,” said Nick Beresic, health promotion manager for LIVE FOR LIFE, Duke’s employee wellness program and Get Moving organizer. According to NASA, the moon is an average of 238,855 miles from Earth. Considering it takes an average of 2,000 steps to walk a mile, Get Moving participants walked 528,009 miles. Together, Duke employees and students walked 1,056,018,150 steps, exercised 3,366,292 minutes and lost 3,535 pounds. The participants in this year’s Get Moving Challenge walked enough steps combined to get to the moon and back, and still have enough in the tank for a detour.

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