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UT Living Well Spring Forward Team Challenge

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Live Your Best Life.
Join the 2024 UT Living Well Spring Forward Team Challenge!

Challenge Period

  • Challenge: April 1 – May 5, 2024 (5-week program)
  • Last day to log activity: May 8

Goal

In a team of 3-5 people, must collectively log 4,000 minutes of activities that exercise your body or mind including: walking, gardening, running, biking, meditation, yoga, etc.

Sign up

Visit the UT Living Well platform (powered by Limeade) to register for the platform and sync your fitness device (optional).

Joining is easy; simply locate the challenge on the Discover Tab, click on the activity card and click the “Get Started” button.

All UT SELECT and UT CARE members ages 18 and older. Whether you’re just starting out with exercise or physical activity has been part of your daily routine for a while, you’re encouraged to participate!

Tracking is Easy

Tracking activity is easy! After joining your team, hit “track” on the right side of the pop-up to enter your minutes and add an optional comment about your activity. You can sync apps or devices in your settings. You are not required to sync apps or devices and can manually enter minutes. After joining the challenge, you will find the challenge tile on the home page when you login via browser or mobile app.

Conveniently track your progress on-the-go with the Limeade ONE mobile app.

In summary, there are two ways to track activities:

  1. Track manually on the platform by entering your daily minutes and pressing the "Track" button. Please note - there is a 120 minute daily limit on manual tracking; OR
  2. Track automatically through a compatible app or device. You must start a session (yoga, weight lifting, walking, etc.) on your app or device for minutes to pull over automatically into the UT Living Well Platform.

How to Participate

  • Create or join a team of 3-5 people and track your daily progress within the challenge.
  • You can only backtrack up to two weeks of progress.
  • Teams can be formed by members from across all UT institutions, if desired.
  • Earn 200 points after your team logs a combined 4,000 combined total minutes over the 5-week challenge.

Your 200 points go towards the Believe, Achieve, and Succeed levels on the UT Living Well platform powered by Limeade (see tab My Points for more information).

Challenge Period

The team challenge begins on Monday, April 1 and ends Sunday, May 5The last day to track activity is Wednesday, May 8.

For questions, contact your institution or Support@Limeade.com

 

Past Traveling Trophy Winners

Fall 2023 Winners, Fall Into Fitness:

Small Institution:  UT Permian Basin  
Medium Institution:  UT Arlington
Large Institution:  UT Austin

Spring 2023 Winners, Spring Forward:

Small Institution:  UT El Paso  
Medium Institution:  UT Dallas
Large Institution:  MD Anderson

Fall 2022 Winners, Fall Into Fitness:

Small Institution:  UT Arlington  
Medium Institution:  UT San Antonio
Large Institution:  UTHealth Houston

Spring 2022 Winners, Feel Like a Million:

Small Institution:  UT System Administration  
Medium Institution:  UT Dallas
Large Institution:  UTHealth Houston

Fall 2021 Winners, Walktober:

Small Institution:  UT Health Science Center at Tyler  
Medium Institution:  UT Dallas
Large Institution:  UTHealth Houston & UT Southwestern

Spring 2021 Winners, Well Traveled:

Small Institution:  UT System Administration  
Medium Institution:  UT San Antonio
Large Institution:  UTHealth Houston

Fall 2020 Winners, Walktober:

Small Institution:  UT System Administration  
Medium Institution:  UT Health San Antonio
Large Institution:  UT Southwestern

Fall 2019 Winners, Keep UT Active:

Small Institution:  UT System Administration  
Medium Institution:  UT Health San Antonio
Large Institution:  UTHealth Houston

Spring 2019 Winners, Spring into Motion:

Small Institution:  UT System Administration  
Medium Institution:  UT Health San Antonio
Large Institution:  UTHealth at Houston

Fall 2018 Winners, Yo Ho Ho:

Small Institution:  UT Permian Basin 
Medium Institution:  UT Health San Antonio
Large Institution:  UTHealth at Houston

Spring 2018 Winners, Keep UT Active:

Small Institution:  UT Permian Basin 
Medium Institution:  UT Health San Antonio
Large Institution:  UTHealth at Houston

Fall 2017 Winners, Health Trails:

Small Institution:  UT Permian Basin 
Medium Institution:  UT Health San Antonio
Large Institution:  UTHealth at Houston

Spring 2017 Winners:

Small Institution:  UT Permian Basin 
Medium Institution:  UT Dallas
Large Institution:  UTHealth at Houston  

2016 Winners, Walktober:

Small Institution:  UT Permian Basin 
Medium Institution:  UT Health Science Center Houston  
Large Institution:  UT Austin

2015 Winners:

Small Institution: UT System Administration
Medium Institution: UT Health Science Center Houston
Large Institution: UT Medical Branch Galveston

2014: UT Pan American
2013: UT Pan American
2012: UT System Administration
2010: UT San Antonio
2009: UT Tyler 
2008: UT Health Science Center San Antonio