A new initiative is aiming to increase the well-being and physical activity of staff and students at the University.
The GofIT challenge, which has been developed by Electronics and Computer Science’s new Human Performance Design Lab, Sport and Wellbeing, the Faculty of Medicine, Students’ Union and Vice Chancellor’s office, proposes to increase mobility and activity options on campus. The initiative is also planned for trials later this spring with both Imperial College and schools across the region.
Following a successful trial in October last year, the 12-week challenge starts from 5 February for teams to sign up and 18 February for the trial to start. Teams of five to eight people can sign up to a web-based challenge site, where the goal is simply to increase minutes of physical activity each week. Participants have weekly minute targets to increase physical activity and wellbeing, which can be as simple and as easy as taking the stairs instead of the lift or getting off at a further bus stop and walking a bit more into work. To make achieving those targets a little more fun, teams will easily be able to compete with each other over the weeks.
Teams can sign up now at https://gofit.soton.ac.uk/