Archive for March, 2012

The 2nd Annual ACES/DailyEndorphin Exercise 4 Education Challenge Raises over $15K!

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

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The 2nd annual ACES/DailyEndorphin Exercise 4 Education Challenge is in the books.  As a group, during the challenge itself we raised over $11,000, exercised nearly 80,000 minutes, and burned nearly 480,000 calories for ACES (“Athletes Committed to Educating Students”), a Twin Cities, MN after school mentoring & tutoring program.  Including sponsorship & prize party raffle donations, we raised a total of $15,179, surpassing our goal of $15,000, which is a 95%+ increase over last year’s totals.  Nicely done everyone!

Here is a snapshot of the final individual & team fundraising & exercising standings.  Challenge participants may view the full challenge report by logging into their respective user dashboards.

Top 10 team fundraisers

Rank Team Name Average $ Raised Per Fundraiser Total $ Raised
1 Minneapolis Muscles $587 $1,174
2 Chad’s Cool Crew $303 $910
3 ACES All Stars $252 $755
4 Peyton $225 $675
5 Welle $176 $1,055
6 Drew Crew $130 $1,560
7 Gym Rats $112 $1,230
8 MN Running Wild $105 $1,790
9 Omann’s Olympians $69 $275
10 Rachael’s Road Runners $66 $265

 

Top 10 individual fundraisers

Rank Endorpher $ Raised
1 Don Sullivan $1,210
2 Emmy Matzner $1,154
3 Jeffrey Mann $915
4 Tim Welle $910
5 Chad Caruthers $710
6 Clark Olsen $700
7 Erica Williams-Ecker $605
8 Patrick Peyton $500
9 General Team Donations $310
10 Catherine Diersen $265

 

Top 10 team “endorphers” (exercisers)

Rank Team Name Duration Weekly Average
Minutes Per
Team Member		 Points Calories
1 Drew Crew 1,745 582 1,848 14,543
2 MN Running Wild 1,694 565 2,638 18,465
3 Gym Rats 807 269 1,063 8,160
4 Minneapolis Muscles 655 218 692 4,648
5 ACES All Stars 641 214 748 5,142
6 Chad’s Cool Crew 513 171 817 6,574
7 No Names 484 161 543 3,974
8 Protective 427 142 578 4,297
9 My Bad 420 140 283 2,029
10 Welle 402 134 417 2,664

 

Top 10 individual “endorphers” (exercisers)

Rank Endorpher Duration Weekly Average
Minutes Per
Team Member		 Points Calories
1 Don Sullivan 3,876 1,292 6,241 45,753
2 Mark Martinsen 3,126 1,042 3,337 25,374
3 Lisa Black 2,817 939 4,411 24,651
4 Tiffany Carlson 2,751 917 3,626 18,620
5 Katie Weber 2,432 811 3,814 30,249
6 Paul Andeson 2,420 807 2,480 17,735
7 Nate Wohlfeil 2,289 763 4,812 33,089
8 Jeffrey Mann 2,178 726 3,280 31,579
9 David Rasche 2,032 677 1,410 12,520
10 Thomas Bentz 2,020 673 2,845 37,044

 

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Week #2 – 2nd Annual ACES/DailyEndorphin Exercise 4 Education Challenge Update!

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

Week #2 of the 2nd annual ACES/DailyEndorphin Exercise 4 Education Challenge is in the books.  Thus far as a group, we have raised $8,000, exercised over 50,000 minutes, and burned over 450,000 calories for ACES (“Athletes Committed to Educating Students”), a Twin Cities, MN after school mentoring & tutoring program.  Nicely done everyone!  Let’s keep it going for one more week through Sunday, March 18th and then wrap things up at the prize party at Cooper’s Irish Pub in St. Louis Park on Tuesday evening, March 20th.  The party is open to all.  The more, the merrier!

Also, for those who still want to participate in the challenge or donate (or both), there’s still time.  Go here for full details.  It takes less than a few minutes to do either.

http://www.aces4kids.org/get-involved/challenge/

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Here are some of the team & individual standings after week #2:

Top 10 team fundraisers

Rank Team Name Average $ Raised Total $ Raised
1 Minneapolis Muscles $292 $583
2 Peyton $225 $675
3 Chad’s Cool Crew $183 $550
4 ACES All Stars $115 $345
5 Welle $108 $645
6 Drew Crew $97 $1,160
7 Gym Rats $96 $1,055
8 Omann’s Olympians $69 $275
9 MN Running Wild $69 $1,165
10 Rachael’s Road Runners $66 $265

 

Top 10 individual fundraisers

Rank Endorpher $ Raised
1 Jeffrey Mann $835
2 Clark Olsen $675
3 Don Sullivan $595
4 Emmy Matzner $563
5 Tim Welle $500
6 Patrick Peyton $500
7 Chad Caruthers $350
8 Erica Williams-Ecker $295
9 Rachael Hansen $190
10 Jake Omann $175

 

Top 10 team “endorphers” (exercisers)

ank Team Name Duration Points Calories
1 Drew Crew 1,187 1,247 9,332
2 MN Running Wild 1,155 1,773 12,402
3 Gym Rats 598 761 5,844
4 ACES All Stars 564 653 4,500
5 Minneapolis Muscles 432 454 3,049
6 Welle 398 412 2,626
7 No Names 390 393 2,810
8 Chad’s Cool Crew 380 565 4,609
9 Fit n’ Fabulous 330 450 2,648
10 Protective 283 377 2,706

 

Top 10 individual “endorphers” (exercisers)

Rank Endorpher Duration Points Calories
1 Don Sullivan 2,907 4,772 34,985
2 Mark Martinsen 2,253 2,564 19,391
3 Katie Weber 2,117 3,229 25,610
4 Tiffany Carlson 2,038 2,675 13,719
5 Lisa Black 1,961 2,993 16,821
6 Paul Andeson 1,890 1,950 13,943
7 Chris Chesak 1,775 1,453 14,523
8 Nate Wohlfeil 1,650 3,428 23,574
9 Jeffrey Mann 1,437 2,101 20,237
10 Willie Tibbetts 1,364 2,338 13,385

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Survey Reveals Most Large Employers View Incentives as Key to Improving Employee Health

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

According to a recent article that appeared in the Employee Benefit News, most large companies see incentives increasingly playing a prominent role in improving the health of their employees.  Most also plan on increasing the dollar value of the incentives they offer in the future.  Here are a few more excerpts from the survey:

The survey finds that almost three out of four (73%) companies used incentives in 2011 to engage employees in health-improvement programs and the average incentive value was $460. That figure has steadily increased from an average of $430 in 2010 and $260 in 2009. According to the study, employers used different types of incentives including cash, gift cards and contributions to health savings accounts. The majority (57%) agreed that incentive-based programs had a better than expected success rate at increasing employee participation.

The expectation that employees also participate in these programs is also increasing:

“Employers are increasingly expecting employees to take steps to improve their health, conditioning even access to health benefits on meeting certain requirements,” says Helen Darling, NBGH president and chief executive officer. “This isn’t surprising given how much control employees can have over their own health and how much poor health habits cost employers.”

According to the article, funding for employee wellness programs held firm at $169 per employee in 2011, up slightly from $154 in 2010, but up significantly from $108 in 2009.

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Study Shows Employee Wellness Program ROI Occurs Within 3 Years

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

So how long does it generally take to yield hard wellness program ROI?  3 years, according to a new study by OptumHealth in Minnesota.  This tells us that it will take a pretty committed effort on the employer’s part, which means although you’re unlikely to see much hard ROI at the beginning, these programs, if executed properly, can yield some pretty big returns over the long term.  However, in the very short term, with programs that are fun and engaging, you will still likely reap significant “soft” ROI with your employees in the form of a boost to your company culture, employee morale, and potentially, employee retention.  The following is a noteworthy passage from the study:

To determine ROI, Serxner and his colleagues examined wellness program participation and medical claims data for close to 50,000 employees of a large financial services corporation. They used innovative analytical techniques to compare net medical and prescription claims paid by the company for people who participated in one or more of the HPM services with those who did not participate at all. After accounting for the costs to implement the wellness program, their analysis revealed a loss in year 1 with net savings in years 2 and 3. The company’s overall return on investment (ROI) during the three-year study period was 2.45:1.

The bottom line here?  You must build a solid wellness program and stay with it.  Do not fall prey to the instant gratification mantra that ails so much of our culture these days.  Your peoples’ and organization’s health (financially and otherwise) may just depend on it.

Go here to read the whole article.

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Week #1 – 2nd Annual ACES/DailyEndorphin Exercise 4 Education Challenge Update!

Monday, March 5th, 2012

ACES E4E SavetheDate email3 857x1024 Week #1 2nd Annual ACES/DailyEndorphin Exercise 4 Education Challenge Update!Week #1 of the 2nd annual ACES/DailyEndorphin Exercise 4 Education Challenge is in the books.  Thus far as a group, we have raised $5,933, exercised over 23,000 minutes, and burned over 226,000 calories for ACES.  Nicely done everyone!  Let’s keep it going for 2 more weeks through Sunday, March 18th and then wrap things up at the prize party at Cooper’s Irish Pub in St. Louis Park on Tuesday evening, March 20th.

Also, for those who still want to participate in the challenge or donate (or both), there’s still time.  Go here for full details.  It takes less than a few minutes to do either.

http://www.aces4kids.org/get-involved/challenge/

Here are some of the team & individual standings after week #1:

Top 10 team fundraisers

Rank Team Name Average $ Raised Total $ Raised
1 Minneapolis Muscles $328 $328
2 Peyton $200 $600
3 Chad’s Cool Crew $100 $300
4 Gym Rats $90 $985
5 Drew Crew $82 $980
6 Welle $70 $420
7 Omann’s Olympians $69 $275
8 My Bad $63 $190
9 MN Running Wild $60 $1,020
10 Rachael’s Road Runners $55 $220

 

Top 10 individual fundraisers

Rank Endorpher $ Raised
1 Jeffrey Mann $655
2 Clark Olsen $605
3 Don Sullivan $520
4 Patrick Peyton $500
5 Emmy Matzner $328
6 Tim Welle $275
7 Jake Omann $175
8 General Team Donations $160
9 Chad Caruthers $150
10 Rachael Hansen $145

 

Top 10 team “endorphers” (exercisers)

*Team totals are averaged over the number of team members.

Rank Team Name Duration Points Calories
1 MN Running Wild 521 837 5,810
2 Drew Crew 499 535 4,086
3 Minneapolis Muscles 350 383 2,570
4 Gym Rats 233 301 2,188
5 No Names 232 293 2,214
6 ACES All Stars 206 267 1,926
7 Gallop 152 138 1,262
8 Chad’s Cool Crew 137 211 1,788
9 Protective 135 204 1,454
10 Omann’s Olympians 123 156 1,215

 

Top 10 individual “endorphers” (exercisers)

Rank Endorpher Duration Points Calories
1 Mark Martinsen 1,233 1,545 11,690
2 Don Sullivan 1,211 2,006 14,714
3 Katie Weber 1,105 1,628 12,918
4 Lisa Black 885 1,429 8,040
5 Paul Andeson 865 932 6,663
6 Nate Wohlfeil 854 1,806 12,421
7 Willie Tibbetts 689 1,176 6,729
8 Mark Weinfurter 685 986 7,449
9 Tiffany Carlson 683 929 4,765
10 Chris Chesak 680 677 6,765

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