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:
