EXERCISE ACROSS ABBOTT

Get Started Guide This guide contains everything you need to know to start the Exercise Across Abbott program!

Understand How it Works. Learn more about the competition and how your team can earn prizes. Read the Exercise Across Abbott Rules and Guidelines and Prize Descriptions in the Resources section of the website.

Learn What Counts as Exercise. Your Team Members may ask what kind of exercise they can track during the competition. Check out the What Counts as Exercise guide in the Resources section for a list of activities and intensity levels that count toward daily minutes.

Move with Your Team. You and your team can do these get-moving ideas together: Organize a kick-off event next week, plan team walks at break times, post motivational messages or quotes in Team Announcements, get together after work or on weekends to walk, hike or bike. Or work with your Team Members and Team Captain to set up a team “boot camp”. Everyone can submit different exercises that the team has to complete during the boot camp. You can schedule all these fun activities with your team by clicking on Create An Event under Events.

Motivate Your Team. Team Members can be recognized by your Team Captain with a High Five Award. Let your Team Captain know who you think should get the award. You can recognize your Team Captain or Co-Captain with a High Five Award, too!

Track Your Minutes Every Day Starting Monday. You and your team can track your daily exercise minutes after logging in at www.ExerciseAcrossAbbott.com starting April 30 or have your minutes automatically logged by linking your Fitbit Activity Tracker to your Exercise Across Abbott profile.

Go Mobile. You don’t have to be at your desk to log your exercise time. Enter your minutes when you’re on the go! The website is accessible from any device (phone, tablet, laptop, etc.) that has Internet access.

Plan for Success. Follow these tips to plan ahead and move more every week:

• Schedule an exercise appointment with yourself. Review your weekly calendar every Sunday.Schedule your exercise just like you would any other important meeting; even a 15-minute walk duringwork counts!

• Set up a mobile meeting. Get out of the conference room and take your meeting members for a walkoutside or inside. Do you have other Team Members in the same meeting? You’ll both be earning exercise minutes for your team as you walk and talk! When you exercise with a Team Member or your whole team,you earn Team Player or All Star badges.

• Make your conference call minutes count. Stuck on the phone during endless conference calls,while staring at your computer? It’s time to walk the walk and talk the talk. In other words, give your eyes a break from screen time, grab your cell phone, plug in your headphones and go for a walk.

• Break up your minutes. Don’t have time for 30 uninterrupted minutes of exercise? Break up yourexercise session into three 10-minute sessions.

• Plan ahead. Make exercise easy! Pack a bag with exercise clothes and shoes and have it ready to go at your office or home.

• Be an active (kids) sports fan. You can cheer on your kids’ games while upping your exerciseminutes. Go for a jog or walk while the team is warming up or do laps around the field during the game—you can still keep an eye on the score while moving more.

• Find more ways to move. Get creative! Take the stairs instead of the elevator, park farther away in the parking lot, go for a walk after dinner or do sit-ups, jumping jacks, lunges or squats during TV commercials. All these will help you earn a Broke a Sweat badge.

• Challenge yourself. Your goal? Try a new form of exercise every week. Have you been walking? Tryjogging. Switch out the gym treadmill for the stair stepper. Join a recreational sport league or try a yogaor Pilates class. Get a group of co-workers together to try nine holes of golf (ditch the cart!) or a hike. Trying a new exercise will earn you a Daredevil badge.