Teams

Local businesses, organizations, and community groups are encouraged to form a team with a minimum of 5 team members. Teams with at least 5 members will qualify as a competitive team competing for the Step It Up Erie County traveling trophies. Teams with less than 5 members are still very welcome and encouraged to participate but will not qualify as a competitive team.

Each business/organization is permitted to have multiple teams, but each participant is only permitted to participate with a single team.

Teams are separated into categories based on size for tiered ranking:

• Noncompetitive Team Category: 1-4 participants
• Small Competitive Team Category: 5-20 participants
• Medium Competitive Team Category: 21-35 participants
• Large Competitive Team Category: 36+ participants

Team Captains

Each team needs a team captain to be the main point of contact for Step It Up coordinators and will be responsible for creating their team’s online group. Additional roles of the team captain (optional but highly encouraged):

• Help recruit your team members.
• Help keep your teammates engaged throughout the Step It Up challenge through activities like weekly report reminders, group activities, additional challenges, and prize incentives.

Scoring Points

Points are recorded as steps or step equivalents tracked only for intentional exercise.

1 step or step equivalent = 1 point

For this challenge, intentional exercise includes any physical activity that is completed specifically for the challenge and is not part of your regular day-to-day activities or work requirements. If physical activity is part of the nature of your job, that’s great! But we challenge you to get your steps by doing a separate activity. Some examples of intentional exercise include:

• Walking/biking to a meeting instead of driving
• Attending a fitness class
• Walking with a friend on a lunch break or after work
• Doing a short yoga or dance session

Any physical activity can be converted to steps using our Physical Activity Conversion Chart!