Programs

Participants form teams of 2-10 adults to motivate and support each other in achieving their fitness and weight loss goals. Each team needs to choose one person to be their team captain who will have regular computer and internet access. Teams may participate in the Minutes of Activity Division and/or the Weight Loss Division. Through this website, team captains register a team and team members report their progress weekly. This site also provides a daily journal and message center to help keep team members connected and involved in making health changes to reach their fitness and weight loss goals.

All Live Healthy Virginia participants will benefit from the following:

• An online daily journal to help you track your weight loss, physical activity and nutrition 
• An online messaging center that will allow you to communicate with your teammates to support each other in your progress
• Accredited and current information to help you achieve your fitness goals in a healthy manner
• Health tools including personalized meal plans, customized workouts, video exercise demonstrations, music playlist downloads and calorie charts
• Weekly e-mails from Live Healthy Virginia containing helpful tips about living a healthy lifestyle
• Random prizes and incentives
• Upon registering for LHV and logging into your personal dashboard a one-year subscription to one of the lifestyle magazines listed below is included in your participation fee.
  • Fitness
  • Ladies' Home Journal
  • Men's Journal
  • Heart Healthy Living
  • Diabetic Living
  • Siempre Mujer 

Teams may register in the Minutes of Activity Division, the Weight Loss Division or both. In either case, individuals track and record minutes of activity and weight loss which is used to calculate your team's percentage weight loss and total activity minutes. Friendly competition among teams is encouraged.

For the Minutes of Physical Activity Division, each team member reports the number of minutes they are physically active. Activity minutes that count include anything you deem to be intentional physical activity. For example, walking to the elevator does not count but intentionally taking the stairs instead of the elevator does count. The goal is to track your current level of physical activity and make small daily changes to increase it.  

For the Weight Loss Division, teams are assessed based on the combined weight of all members. Individuals can report their weight online or have their captain submit it for them. Team totals are viewed as percentage lost or gained. Individual weights are only viewable by that individual.

There are two ways to register teams for Live Healthy Virginia:

1. Group teams from a worksite or organization

Live Healthy Virginia is a wellness program that can be administered to worksites or organizations that may have offices spread accross the country. These worksites or organizations may wish to register multiple teams within their organization. In this case, Live Healthy Virginia will assign the entity (worksite, church, etc.) its own registration code. Team captains will use the registration code to link their individual team to its entity. These entities will have their own page on the website where they can view the ranking of each team registered under their registration code. 

For more information about registering multiple teams or to receive a registration code, click here.  

2. Single teams of friends or family members

Groups of people who do not wish to link their team to a larger entity (worksite, church, etc.) can form their own team. This program is perfect for a group of friends, husband-wife teams and even co-workers if their worksite is not registered in the Group Teams program. 

To learn more about Single Teams and to register,  click here.

If you are already a captain of one team and wish to register another team and act as their team captain, please login at the top of this page and then register the team.

Live Healthy Virginia 2008

Dates

Program Dates: 1/16/2008 - 4/25/2008
Registration Dates: 12/10/2007 - 4/25/2008

Cost

$15.00 per Registrant

Teams

There can be between 2 and 10 registrants per team.

Program Tracking

Weight Loss
Activity Tracking