Official rules: getfit@mit 2008

1. The getfit@mit challenge begins on January 28, 2008, and ends on April 20, 2008.
2. All teams must register online at getfit.mit.edu by January 23, 2008.
3. Teams must consist of between five and eight people. Participation is open to all members of the MIT community and family members aged 16 years and older.
4. No changes may be made to team names or team rosters after January 23, 2008. Exceptions to the rule against team-roster changes will be made only in the rare situation that a team member has no choice but to drop out before the end of the challenge (serious illness, leaving MIT, or similar circumstances). In such situations, please make the roster-change request by using the “contact us” link on the getfit@mit website (http://getfit.mit.edu).
5. Individuals may be a member of only one team.
6. Any physical activity done at a level that increases the heart rate and/or challenges the muscles will count as exercise.
7. The getfit week runs from Monday through Sunday.
8. Participants must keep a record of total minutes exercised every day.
9. Participants’ minutes must be entered online at http://getfit.mit.edu each week. Participants can enter their own minutes or team captains or cocaptains can enter minutes for each team member. The deadline for entering totals is 5:00pm, EST, each Tuesday. Weekly totals must be entered by the Tuesday deadline, or they will not be counted, no exceptions. Each week, the getfit@mit database will calculate the average number of minutes exercised by each team. Team and individual results will be posted online at http://getfit.mit.edu.
10. Weekly prize drawings will be held to award prizes to at least two individuals. All participants meeting the minimum threshold of exercise minutes for a given week during the challenge will be eligible for that week’s prize drawing for individuals.
11. At least one team prize will be awarded weekly. Details and requirements of weekly team contests will be posted on the getfit@mit website (http://getfit.mit.edu).
12. Each team with an exercise average that meets the weekly minimum threshold of exercise minutes for at least 10 of the 12 weeks during the challenge will be eligible for the Grand Prize, the winner of which will be determined by random drawing among all eligible teams at the end of the challenge.
13. “Onward & Upward” prizes will be awarded by random drawing to two individuals at the end of the challenge. To be eligible for this prize drawing, an individual does not need to have met weekly exercise thresholds, but he or she must have recorded exercise minutes for every week of the challenge and must have demonstrated a steady and consistent increase in exercise minutes from week to week.
14. Organizers of the getfit@mit challenge and members of their families are ineligible to win individual prizes. Teams with ineligible members are ineligible for team prizes.
15. The minimum exercise-minute threshold for each week of the challenge will be as follows:
    • Week 1 — 150 minutes
    • Week 2 — 165 minutes
    • Week 3 — 180 minutes
    • Week 4 — 195 minutes
    • Week 5 — 210 minutes
    • Week 6 — 225 minutes
    • Week 7 — 225 minutes
    • Week 8 — 245 minutes
    • Week 9 — 260 minutes
    • Week 10 — 280 minutes
    • Week 11 — 300 minutes
    • Week 12 — 300 minutes