Here are some tips any member of a team can use—co-captains and teammates alike!
1. Choose a method for regular team communications—and use it!
- Your Team Feed
- Weekly in-person mini-meetings/coffee-breaks
- Regular group emails (send them through the getfit website)
- Regular group text messages
- An online group for you and your teammates
2. Use your communications method to:
- Ask your teammates how they’re doing
- Provide encouragement
- Remind each other about deadlines
- Challenge each other to complete a certain activity or goal
- Offer and solicit exercise tips and suggestions, for example:
- Activities to do at your desk or inside
- Your favorite bike paths, running routes, or yoga podcasts
- Local gyms or activity centers
- Virtual Zumba or yoga "get-togethers"
3. Do things together
This can be challenging with busy schedules, but if your team can swing it:
- Arrange a regular power walk, bike ride, or Killian Court frisbee toss, your own Field Day, or ?
- Find an activity none of you have done before and try it together
- Sign up your team for a 5K
- Attend one of the getfit-sponsored tunnel walks or sign up for classes as a group, or challenge each other to achieve eligibility for team contests
- If you’re all members of DAPER, enroll in a DAPER class together
4. Do things separately, and share your experiences
If your schedules don’t allow for team activities, inspire your teammates with updates of what you’re doing, for example:
- Your recent ski outing
- Chasing after your kids or grandkids
- Adventures with fitness-tracking wearables
- Your hockey team's exploits
- What it's like to do activities online
5. Reward yourselves and have fun! For example:
- Celebrate reaching each week’s exercise goal by taking a healthy snack break together
- Create team T-shirts
- Hold your own team “awards dinner” at the end of the challenge