Shape up Cigna!

Leading By Example

Through the Shape Up Cigna! Healthy Life Team Challenge program, Cigna encourages its employees and their families around the globe to develop healthy habits. Employees take the Challenge by teaming up with their families and coworkers to run, walk, bike and hike together. Teams track their total weight loss and the total number of minutes they engage in healthy physical activity.

Cigna's people are rising to the Challenge. Participants in the first year of the 10-week Challenge lost over 19,945 total pounds by engaging in more than 15,872,420 minutes of physical activity.

The Shape Up Cigna! Healthy Life Team Challenge is designed to:

• Offer a safe, structured and fun health improvement program
• Meet the emotional needs of employees through a shared, supportive experience
• Provide education on nutrition, exercise and behavior change
• Decrease employee health risks through a reduction in weight and BMI (body mass index)

During the Challenge, people learn about healthy habits in phone seminars on wellness offered by Cigna's Healthy Life Personal Health Team and sharing experiences on the Shape Up Cigna! Facebook page.

Teams compete creatively too. Team names such as "Weapons of Mass Reduction," "Twisted Blister," and "Brazilian Girls in Hong Kong" emphasize the goals, methods and global reach of the Challenge.

Linking Personal Health and Community Health
Communities also benefit from the Challenge. A $5,000 Cigna Foundation grant goes to the nonprofit organization of each winning team's choice. Additionally, an organization that shares the same healthy lifestyle goals as Shape Up Cigna is awarded a grant tied to total results.

This unique employee program encourages thousands of Cigna's people to improve their health by exercising more and eating better. In turn, they use the benefits of the Challenge to help all those they serve lead healthier lives. The Shape Up Cigna! Healthy Life Team Challenge is another way Cigna contributes to a healthier world.