What Is the Are You Ready for Bob Weight Loss Challenge?

Are You Ready for Bob?
Six Week Weight Loss Challenge

Commit to achieving healthy weight loss over six weeks and you could meet Bob Harper in person!

Bob Harper, health and fitness expert, television star of NBC's Biggest Loser, and three-time #1 New York Times best-selling author, will deliver the keynote address at this year's Mercy Red Dress Breakfast. Participants in the Are You Ready for BobWeight Loss Challenge could win an opportunity to meet Bob at this year's event.

What is the Are You Ready for Bob Weight Loss Challenge?

The Are You Ready for Bob challenge was created to encourage healthy and fun ways to exercise and reach a healthy weight, and to adopt healthy life-long habits. This is a weight loss challenge that awards for greatest percent of weight lost in a 6-week period. Here's how you can join in the fun:

Cost to Participate

Participation in the challenge is free. Are You Ready for Bob challenge t-shirts are available for purchase for $15 (Corporate participants will need to order t-shirts from their own vendor).

Who Can Participate

The challenge is open to all employees. You may participate as an individual or as part of a team of four people.

How to Register and Weigh In

Baseline weigh-ins and official registration will be available in ______(department) on ______(dates/times).Teams and individuals must be registered and weighed in by Wednesday, January 14 at 4 p.m. No exceptions.

Prizes and Give-a-Ways

The final weigh-ins will begin on Monday, February 23 and must be completed by 4 p.m. on Wednesday, February 25 to be eligible for prizes. No exceptions.

Individual Prize - The individual with the highest percentage of weight loss at the final weigh-in on February 25 will receive complimentary registration to the Mercy Red Dress Breakfast and will be entered into a chance to meet Bob Harper in person at the Mercy Red Dress Breakfast on Friday, February 27.

Team Prize - One team of four people with the highest percentage of weight loss collectively will receive ______(TBD by employer).

Weekly Drawing – Everyone who is a registered participant will be entered into a weekly drawing to win ______(TBD by employer – Mercy is giving awaycopies of Bob Harper's book, Are You Ready!)

Participants are highly encouraged to make a personal commitment to learn their healthy BMI range, make changes towards a more nutritious diet and adopt daily routine exercise of up to one hour or more for a healthy weight loss. Use of extreme dieting methods, dietary supplements, and cleanses are highly discouraged and can be dangerous to your health.

Registration and Waiver

In consideration for allowing me to participate in the Are You Ready for Bob weight loss challenge presented by ______(wellness program/employer) and held at ______(employer) or at other locations, I hereby take the following actions for myself, my heirs, executors and administrators, or anyone else who might claim or sue on my behalf: (a) in connection with the event, I forever release, acquit and discharge from all known obligations, losses, damages, liabilities, injuries, claims, demands, action, causes of actions and expenses, including without limitation, attorney’s fees and costs, the following persons or entities: the______(employer) members, sponsors, event producers, and volunteers; and the officers, directors, employees, staff, representatives and agents of the above. (b) I acknowledge that I am aware of the inherent risks in participation in an event of this type. (c) I attest and verify that I am physically fit and have not been advised against participation in the event by a qualified health professional. (d) I hereby grant full permission to any and all of the foregoing to use my name, my voice, and/or my picture in any broadcast, telecast, advertising, promotion or other account of this event for any purpose whatsoever.

By my signature below, I affirm that I am either: a participant in the Are You Ready for Bob weight loss challenge and that I am eighteen (18) years of age or older, that I have read this agreement, that I understand its contents and that I intend to execute it; OR, the natural parent or legal guardian of the participant under eighteen (18) years of age whose name appears on the registration, that I have legal capacity to act on behalf of the named minor, that I have read the attached this agreement, that I understand its contents and that I have executed the agreement on behalf of the named minor.

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