The Active Lifestyle Program is designed to help you make a commitment to staying active and sticking to it. It helps adults get active at least 30 minutes a day/5 days per week for six weeks (or at least 60 minutes a day for youth under 18). This is your life…get and stay active every day.

Step 1
Choose an activity

You can take the Challenge by yourself, or together with friends and family. Choose activities that you enjoy and make you feel good. For example, it could be walking, taking an exercise class, playing a sport, or doing chores around the house.

Step 2
Get active

You need to meet your daily activity goal (30 minutes a day for adults; 60 minutes a day for youth under 18) at least 5 days a week, for a total of 6 weeks. You can take up to 8 weeks to complete the program.

Step 3
Track your activity

Our online activity log makes it easy for you to track the time you spend on activities. You can log your time as often as you want, in increments as short as 5 minutes. You can go back up to 14 days to enter past activities. Visit www.wisconsinchallenge.org. You can also keep track of your progress on paper that is also located in the press room on www.wisconsinchallenge.org. Keep in mind that this means we won't have an online record of the activity points you earn – which could apply to the Presidential Champions Program.

Step 4
Earn your award

Whenever you reach your goal, the Active Lifestyle Program recognizes your accomplishment with special awards. An award form will pop-up on your computer screen when you have achieved the award. You just need to fill in the form and hit send. If you have achieved an award and didn't see the form pop-up, you can go directly to www.wisconsinchallenge.org and click on the "Earned an Award?" and fill out the form. You can then continue earning awards in the Active Lifestyle Program and move on to the next challenge: the Presidential Champions Program.