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Get Fit Texas

 

 

 

 

Get Fit Texas is a Ten week competition from January 10 - March 20, 2022.  Participants must achieve 150 minutes of physical activity per week in at least six out of the 10 weeks to complete the Challenge. 

Participants use the getfittexas.org website to record their daily/weekly physical activity. The website tracks your personal progress while adding your achievements to those of your coworkers. It also tracks your employer's performance versus other state organizations.

Get Fit Texas Instructions

Registration

To register, fill in the requested information.  Please use your work email.

  • Employers are listed alphabetically. Yours may unexpectedly be listed under Texas (e.g., Texas Dept. of State Health Services) or another common prefix, so please search thoroughly. Email wellness@dshs.texas.gov if you can't find your agency.
  • Contractors should select the agency where they work.
  • Subgroup is an optional dropdown for employers who wish to divide their employees by division, location, etc. After logging in for the first time you will be able to select a Subgroup via the 'Edit Profile link' on the dashboard.
  • Registration data (including subgroup) can be edited easily at any time, even after you've entered physical activity data.

After You Register

After registering, participants see their personal dashboard page. Use the Menu Column on the left for navigation.

  • My Progress (center area) shows your personal progress as you complete the Challenge.
  • The Leader Board (right area) indicates your agency's ranking within its size group.

My Progress

This Dashboard section displays the physical activity minutes you have submitted for each week of the challenge. Once a weekly total reaches 150 minutes, that week's star will be filled.

  • Notice (red circle) the Enter Activity button, takes you to the Enter New Activity screen
  • The View History button shows every data submission you've made throughout the Challenge.
  • To complete the Challenge, participants must have at least six stars filled at the end. When this occurs, an icon will appear in the bottom right corner.
  • Select the icon to display and print a Challenge Completion Certificate for your records. It will be needed if your agency offers an incentive for completing the challenge. Download your certificate by June 1, 2022. 

Your challenge coordinator will announce whether your agency offers an incentive and the process to redeem it.

Leader Board

The Get Fit Texas Challenge also is a competition between state employers and higher education institutions of similar size. It is based on the percentage of agency employees who complete the Challenge.

The leader board shows this percentage in the Completions column. Agencies are ranked  accordingly. (Total agency minutes is listed only for fun). 

The leader board will rank agencies' progress based on the percentage of employees who have achieved stars each week.

At the beginning of week 8, the leader board will be hidden so the final results will be a surprise.

Entering Activity Data

To enter physical activity data, click on Enter New Activity in the Menu Bar.

  • Enter the Date, Minutes, and Type information. If you wish to make multiple submissions, click Add Another Activity.
  • Click the Submit button once all the activities are reflected on the screen.
  • All challenge data can be viewed and edited by clicking on View History in the Menu Bar.

After you submit your physical activity data, you'll see it reflected on the Dashboard page.

  • Your minutes will be added to the total for the week in which they occurred.
  • My Progress displays a running total of your submitted minutes.

After completing the Challenge, an icon will appear in the bottom right corner of the My Progress section. Click the icon to display and print a Challenge Completion Certificate for your records.

  • The completion certificate will be needed if your agency offers an incentive for completing the challenge.
  • Your challenge coordinator will announce whether your agency offers an incentive and how to redeem it.

Fitbit Data Entry

  1. Select a date to import activities for and then continue to the Fitbit web site.
  2. Log in using your Fitbit account if you have not already.
  3. Give approval for the Get Fit Texas Challenge to access your Fitbit data for all categories listed if you have not already.
  4. You will then be returned to this site and can preview and/or edit the activities returned from  Fitbit.
  5. After confirming the information, submit the imported activity( ies ) as if you had manually  entered

Fitbit Requirements and Terms of Service

  • You must have an existing Fitbit account to use this feature.
  • This web site does not have access to or store your Fitbit password. You will enter directly into their site.
  • You must specifically tell Fitbit you give this web site access to your data.
  • You can revoke permission for our website at anytime on the Fitbit Settings page
  • We only collect activity data for the days you request and do not make any changes to your Fitbit account data.

Activity History

View History displays all your individual data submissions throughout the challenge. You can view
entries by day by clicking the desired week, or the entire list by clicking the All button.  To make changes to existing data entries, click the edit button to the left desired submission.

Calendar

Wellness events calendar with live and pre-recorded opportunities for you to maintain your health and well being. Click an event on the calendar for details and registration information.

Edit Profile

This screen remains available throughout the Challenge in case you need to change
your registration data. Changes can be made without disrupting physical activity entries submitted
previously.

Questions and Help

The Dashboard screen offers links to the email addresses of the challenge coordinator(s) in your
agency.  Please contact your coordinator for questions about your agency's policies and basic questions about the Challenge and/or website functionality.

Please note: Your challenge coordinators likely still are learning their way around the website.  Please be patient if they need time to answer questions.

For more complex questions, please email the Challenge Administrator at wellness@dshs.texas.gov .