To commemorate and celebrate our 18-year anniversary, we hosted our first Survival of the Fittest, Fitness Challenge. This was an opportunity for local business to encourage team building, improve communication skills, increase employee performance and reduce stress, all of this while working out at the gym.

Each member had to compile points based on their activity level throughout the 12-day competition. The first round of the competition began on Monday June 19 and ended on Friday June 30^th. The challenge started off with teams of men and woman competing for the highest point average. Teams such as Atlas Party Rental, Baker Zimmerman Attorneys at Law, and Bloomingdales took the lead. It was a battle for the lead as Wachovia Securities, The Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce and Europa Medi-Spa made a push knocking out the other tough competitors. It was a long 12-day competition as each team member fought their way through fatigue, muscle soreness, even the difficulty of time constraints in a busy work & personal life. After the 12-day competition the top 5 teams had another 7-day competition.

Round 2 the final push to crown our champion involved 7 days of more physical and difficult tasks. Since fitness is composed of many components the finals consisted of a variety of activities. Each member of the team had to, within that 7 day period, complete:

Each of these challenges were awarded 6 points each. The final task to find out how much they learned from participating in this competition was a Fitness/Lifestyle IQ Test consisting of 20 questions for 20 points from material given. The competitors had to schedule a time to come in with Personal Trainer Andrea Contant to answer these questions as a team.

Our top 5 companies were The Boca Raton Chamber, Wachovia Securities, Atlas Party Rental, Europa Medi-Spa and Boca Raton Observer.