SIMPLY INCREDIBLE! We are so proud of our community's commitment to movement, activity, and embracing healthier lifestyles this holiday season! In just twelve weeks, our teams have collectively logged 20,524,874 STEPS! As the Go! Fitness Challenge comes to a close, we...

SIMPLY INCREDIBLE! We are so proud of our community's commitment to movement, activity, and embracing healthier lifestyles this holiday season! In just eleven weeks, our teams have collectively logged 15,885,632 STEPS! We began the challenge with realistic...

After quite a streak as reigning champions, the Swanton High Steppers have been overtaken! Brenda T has won the Challenge for week 8, and the Fitbit Challengers, just 1,591 steps behind, receive second place! Great job, everyone! 1Brenda T79,9202Fitbit...

Our Go! Fitness Challenge, supported by CareFirst, kicked off in October with excitement! It's a movement challenge designed to encourage physical activity for Garrett County residents. Both individuals and teams participate by engaging with the online community of...

Stay strong, keep moving, and visualize yourself bringing in 2023! Do you feel confident and strong? Do you want to bring in the new year with more energy? It's your vision, be detailed as you think about what you want to feel like moving into 2023. It's a great time...

Congratulaitons Again! Our participants continue to do well and have stayed relatively consistent throughout the Challenge. Most individuals submitting their steps get between 30,000 to 50,000 a week. The Swanton High Steppers have one person on their team that skews...

Witnessing the northern lights is one of my bucket-list experiences that I'm sure would be transformational! The conditions need to be perfect for this spectacular display to take place. December through March is usually the best time to observe this elusive...

It's officially the holiday season! A time when our focus tends to shift toward others. It's easy to forget to prioritize the gift of movement for ourselves. Let's use all the proven tips and tools we've been learning along the way to stay in a grateful and motivating...

In our sixth week of this Fitbit Challenge, we want to let you know how grateful we are to each of you for sharing part of your movement journey with us! Collectively we've made it to the west coast and headed north into Seattle, where it happens to be 49 degrees and...

We're blown away by the progress that's been made through our community's participation in the Go! Fitness Challenge! So far, our teams and participants have walked, ran, biked, hiked, and increased their physical activity to the tune of 7 MILLION + steps in only four...

Four weeks in a row, the Swanton High Steppers are the team with the most reported weekly steps! You all are incredible, and we are collectively moving a lot more to catch you! Team DZ came close last week (10/31-11/6) and is our second-place winner with just a...

Taking a moment to reflect upon our successes is so essential for our mental health. Life is full of things that keep us busy and every once in a while, let's pause and think of all that we've accomplished and just how far we've come in such a short time! What was...

Our Swanton High Steppers are on a winning streak, great job! There has been some shuffling of our leaderboard, many moved up in place while a few dropped down. Wherever you are today, know you are supported and celebrated in this online community! Movement and...

That trip across the Country must have been what made Week 3 (Oct 24 - Oct 30) such a blur! Thank you for all the comments in the posts; we appreciate learning more about your goals and motivations to increase mobility through movement! Jamie W suggested we track how...

Our Fitbit Challenge participants have logged 3.28 million steps in just two weeks! If we started our journey from Oakland, we would be coming to Aspen, Colorado, for the weekend! That's pretty impressive; I'm staying motivated by visualizing playing in these...

This is the team to beat, with 378,520 individual steps and an average of 94,630 between four people! We keep gaining traction in more ways than one! We are picking up more people weekly and increasing our step counts. Consistency is the key, and I've noticed certain...

Hello, dedicated steppers! We've received a dozen team step entries so far; it's the last day to submit for the previous week, so don't forget! We've noticed some of you added new people to your teams. That's a beautiful idea because research tells us that when we...

Congratulations! The Swanton High Steppers got moving and finished strong during our first week! They have a regular physical activity routine and demonstrated chronic disease prevention with this step log. I guess there may be improved mood, concentration, and...

We promised random prize drawings for those entered into our Fitbit Challenge; today is the first prize of many random prizes we will have fun awarding! Mary Ann is part of a multigenerational team with her daughter and two grandchildren who enjoy getting as many...

We're off to a fantastic start, several teams and individuals are participating in the Steps Challenge! We've received a lot of questions in this first week and we're using this post to publish an FAQ's list to make all the details clear. In addition, the gcinmotion...

New research released on Monday in Nature Medicine https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02012-w gives us hope! Participants in the study wore activity trackers and had an average of 4 years of continuous monitoring. What they found was that more steps are...

It's the first day of our County Step Challenge, and we are inviting you to take those steps with the power of self-compassion! Acknowledging the difficulties in our lives and being kind to ourselves can positively affect our mental wellbeing. Our challenge isn't...

We're on a mission to keep Garrett County moving through our beautiful fall season! For those just joining us, here's a little background: to increase opportunities for people to be more physically active, an initiative called GC In Motion was launched in April of...