Congratulations to everyone who competed in the 2012 Team Fitness Challenge! The competition was fierce this year. A big shout out to DBG Domination who placed 1st! Below are the final standings. Stay tuned for TFC 2013!

HOW IT WORKS

 Teams of 6-8 Harvard affiliates compete to accrue workout minutes in our facilities (MAC and Hemenway only this year) between  

Monday, February 6^th and Friday, March 9^th, 2012 (for a total of 5 weeks).

TFC team members must be current Harvard affiliates with valid athletic access; members are responsible to keep access current and will not be admitted without a valid, swiping Harvard ID.

Individuals who do not have a team can fill out an individual registration form. These people will be put onto a team with other individuals who do not have a team. A team captain will be selected from these individuals; please indicate on the individual registration form as to whether you’d like to be a team captain.

REGISTRATION

Registration for TFC 2012 is from 1/23-2/1. Registration forms can be printed from this web site or obtained at the MAC or Hemenway. Registrations forms can be turned in at either facility; they are due no later than February 1, 2012.

Individual Registration form.

Team Registration form.

LOGGING YOUR FITNESS MINUTES

This year, the team captains will be responsible for keeping track of and entering the teams’ minutes into a Google form/document. The link to the Google form will be emailed to the team captains and it will be available for completion on Mondays from 12pm-5pm.  Instructions on how to complete the form will be listed on the top of the form. 

The team captains are the contacts for each team. All correspondence and minutes logging must be handled through the team captain. In the event that the team captain is absent or on vacation during a day that the minutes need to be turned in, a substitute team captain can step in. You must notify the TFC committee contacts (see below) prior to this change.

VACATION AND NON-HARVARD TFC MINUTES

Since the rules state that a TFC team member must swipe into a facility in order for his/her TFC minutes to count, we cannot accept minutes from a TFC team member while he/she is on vacation.

PRIZES

Prizes will be awarded to the top 3 TFC teams (determined using the “adjusted minutes” which averages the points per team member and calculates based on a team maximum of 8 participants).

At the end of the competition, a raffle prize will also be awarded to a team captain. The TFC committee will select the winner via a random drawing.

BASIC RULES

• Team captains are responsible for entering the teams’ weekly minutes. Team captains must log each team members’ daily totals on the Google form each Monday by 8pm (minutes may NOT be backdated).

• Members may work out more than once daily, and may work out at both the MAC and Hemenway. Eligible daily workout minutes may not exceed 90 minutes, as we do not wish to encourage excessive exercise habits. However, since some people practice endurance sports (such as long-distance running, cycling, or swimming), once a week a 180 minute workout is eligible, provided that it is followed by a "day off."

• Runners and walkers may count minutes outside the facility provided that they start their routes at the MAC or Hemenway (you must swipe in at the gym prior to going for your run or walk for it to count as TFC minutes).

• We encourage all participants to keep track of their own minutes to double-check our record keeping. Although we will rely largely on the honor system, we will be randomly checking minute submissions against our computerized check-in times.

• Please be detailed in your tracking of your TFC minutes (for instance, if all of the teams start entering the weekly max of 630 minutes, we will know that the minute logging is not accurate and/or true.

• Please be pecise in your tallying of bonus minutes. Bonus minutes must be logged separately from the regular minutes (please see details below).

TFC runs for 5 weeks, from 2/6-3/9. The weeks will be split from each Monday, starting at noon and ending at noon. For instance, week 1 will start at noon on Monday, 2/6 and it will end on Monday, 2/13 (at which point week 2 will start), and so on. Weekly standings will be posted on the Wednesday of each week (i.e., 2/15, 2/22, 2/29, and so on).

The winners will be announced the week of 3/12-3/16.

Prizes will be distributed in March/April 2012.

BONUS MINUTES

Bonus points (“minutes”) will be based on attendance of weekly bonus classes (to be determined by the TFC committee). Each bonus class is worth 55 points (in other words, the length of the class). The minutes will be logged in the Google form each week, but in a separate category. When team members submit minutes to their captains, they should keep regular minutes separate from bonus minutes to avoid confusion.

Make sure you pick up a raffle ticket at your bonus class!

A name will be chosen each week for a prize!

The bonus workouts for Week 2 (Noon 2/13 - Noon 2/20) are:

*For the MAC: Attend any Aqua class

*For Hemenway: Attend any 7am or 7:15am group exercise class.

The bonus workouts for Week 3 (Noon 2/20- Noon 2/27) are:

Any 55 minute yoga or pilates class at the MAC

The bonus workouts for Week 4 (Noon 2/27 - Noon 3/5) are:

Any 1:15pm yoga class at Hemenway

The bonus workouts for Week 5 (Noon 3/5 - 3/9) are TBD.

TRY ANY OF OUR BRAND NEW CLASSES AT HEMENWAY:

Monday 6:15-7:00 am Indoor Cycling Express w/ Brian

Monday 11:30-12:05 H.I.T. w/ Ramon

Wednesday 6:30-7:15 am Interval Challenge Express w/ Brian

Wednesday 11:30-12:05 Gliding w/ Katie

*Please note there are NO Classes on Monday, February 20th.*

POINTS

All of the weekly team points will be “adjusted” based on the number of people in each team to account for the fact that smaller teams with more people accruing points would count just as much as a larger team with people on it that do not log any minutes. Only “adjusted” and not accrued fitness minutes will be posted each week and at the end of the competition. The Excel spreadsheet tallying the fitness points will have an equation to calculate these totals.

Individuals that attain the American College of Sports Medicine standard physical activity goal (180 minutes per person per week) will also be recognized.

Please submit all general and rule-related TFC-related questions to Liz Hamp at hemfit@fas.harvard.edu

Please direct all questions regarding minute tracking and scoring to Katie Egan at hemops@fas.harvard.edu

HAVE FUN AND GOOD LUCK!