The award-winning goFIT challenge is back for 2015 – and it’s bigger than ever. This year, Southampton will be joining 13 other universities (11 in the UK and 2 in Europe) in running the goFIT challenge, which aims to increase the well-being and physical activity of staff and students.
The 12-week challenge starts on 9 February and teams can sign up from 26 January. Teams of five to eight people can sign up to the 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 be able to compete with each other over the weeks.
Professor m.c. schraefel from Electronics and Computer Science, who designed the goFIT challenge platform, says: “Want to perform better and with less effort? If we reconnect our brain and our bodies – we get these benefits for free – and the fastest way to start that reconnection is to move. If we move the body, we stimulate the brain.”
To register your interest go to the goFIT site now