Mark your calendar with your favorite classes to join! Click HERE to add the shared Wellness Calendar to your Google Calendar for easy access and calendar reminders.
All classes are modifiable for all levels of fitness. We hope you’ll give one a try!
We hope to see you in a class soon, but if you don’t have time for a full class or can’t make it during the scheduled times, we’ve included some links below to work exercise and stretching into your daily routine. Perhaps you can do these during your 15-minute breaks each day!
ACC also has the following discounted gym membership offers:
Gold’s Gym- access to all Austin-area Level 1 gyms for 25.99+ tax/month
Blue Cross Blue Shield Fitness Program-access to different participating gyms nationwide depending on which tier you choose (prices vary based on membership tier)
This year marked the 11th offering of the “Become an ACC Exercise Star” Challenge coordinated by the ACC Employee Wellness Program to promote increased activity among our employees.
Now, here are some exciting stats from this year’s challenge to put our efforts into perspective:
🎉 This was our 10th year of Exercise Stars!
🏃♀️ 479 employees registered with participation from all 11 ACC sites
✅ 326 participants completed the challenge by reaching their goals
📈 This year’s completion rate of 68.1% is the highest achieved since 2017, reflecting a significant level of participant engagement and commitment.
💪 Together, we logged 1,011,010 minutes of movement.
⏱️ That’s 16,850 hours of physical activity.
📅 That’s 702 days of continuous movement.
🗽 That’s enough to walk from Austin to New York City and back more than 16 times, or circle the Earth at the equator just over twice.
🏊 This could be the equivalent to swimming roughly 20 million yards at a moderate pace, enough to swim the length of an Olympic pool almost 365,000 times.
🌟 Together, employees logged enough exercise time to fill nearly 17,000 standard workdays
❤️ That’s more than one million opportunities to improve health and wellbeing. Every minute of physical activity contributes to benefits such as improved heart health, reduced stress, increased energy, better sleep, and enhanced overall well-being.
The Challenge ran from January 26 through April 5, 2026…10 weeks of friendly competition between our 11 campus locations.
Awards for the Top Individual Stars and Most Active Campuses we presented at the Wellness Fest on Friday, April 24.
Overall top “stars” for the ten-week challenge were:
On September 16, 2022, the ACC Employee Wellness Program was recognized at the 2022 Mayor’s Health & Fitness Awards ceremony. Not only did the program receive the MHFC Workplace Partner Certification at the Gold level, but it was also chosen as the ‘Moving the Needle’ recipient in the area of physical activity. This award recognizes workplaces for exemplifying best practices in creating spaces that promote health and well-being and programs that affect positive change toward healthy lifestyles.
For more on this, you can see the press release from the City of Austin at the link below:
On Friday, April 26th, ACC hosted the inaugural Employee Wellness-Fest 2019!
Nearly 200 employees came together to celebrate wellness across the district with field day games, exercise demos, health and wellness information tables, and even a new campus competition, the Campus Wellness Cup. Smiling faces were seen throughout the Eastview courtyard as employees were able to get in some physical wellness, engage with their peers from the different campuses and strengthen those bonds between colleagues.
Dr. Richard Rhodes presented the Exercise Stars awards as a part of the event recognizing the top 3 overall individuals from each fitness level, as well as the top 3 Campuses with the most minutes. Wellness Champions from each ACC campus helped put this event together and the Eastview Campus staff worked especially hard to prepare for the big day! Finally, 19 vendors from both the college and the community came out for the event to provide information regarding services related to employee wellness. Several of these vendors, as well as many other local businesses provided wonderful prizes to be won as well.
Congratulations to the Eastview Campus for taking home the first ever ACC Campus Wellness Cup!
Which campus will be ready to capture this honor next year and take home this fantastic trophy at the Wellness-Fest 2020? Yes…we are looking forward to the opportunity to repeat this event again next year, and hope you will be sure to join us again then!
Here are a few pictures from the event, but you can view all pictures in the Photo Gallery!
Employees with Blue Cross Blue Shield HealthSelect coverage may take advantage of these wellness programs, most at no additional cost. For additional information about these BCBS programs, log into your BCBS account.
Benefits Manager Steve Hassel and Benefits Coordinator Gina Akin receive award from Mayor Steve Adler
The Austin Mayor’s Health & Fitness Council has named Austin Community College a Certified Partner in recognition of ACC’s Employee Wellness Program. MHFC Certified Partners, which include some Austin’s best-known employers, must offer initiatives addressing physical activity, nutrition, tobacco-free living, health education, and preventative services.
“A healthier workforce is a more productive workforce, which benefits our students and supports their success,” said President/CEO Dr. Richard Rhodes, an avid runner and enthusiastic advocate of the wellness program. “We’re grateful to those who have developed these initiatives and to the many faculty and staff who create a healthy workplace by participating.”
Established by the Human Resources Office in August 2013, ACC’s Employee Wellness Program has expanded beyond exercise classes to encompass programs on healthy eating, diabetes education, meditation, and other wellness practices. In addition to fitness classes, the program encourages employees to be active by using the stairs and taking advantage of campus walking trails. This spring the HR Office introduced “Mammo Mixers” to promote mammogram screenings.
