Start! Program

Follow along with Health Plus’s new Body Weight Exercise video to experience a quick, effective workout anywhere, anytime. Read More

Take the Quarter 3 Start! Physical Activity Challenge. Log activity or sync a device using Track in the Health Plus Health Guide between July 1 and Sept. 30 to earn raffle entries to win a choice of five great prizes. Read More

Start your spring off right by taking the Quarter 2 Start! Physical Activity Challenge. Log activity or sync a device using TRACK in the Health Plus Health Guide between April 1 and June 30 to earn raffle entries or win a choice of great prizes. Read More

Take the Quarter 3 Start! Physical Activity Challenge. Read More

Vandy Walks presents "Campus Architecture" June 15. Read More

Take the Quarter 2 Start! Physical Activity Challenge. Log activity or sync a device using Track in the New Health Plus Health Guide between March 1 and June 30 to earn raffle entries to win a choice five great prizes. Read More

Celebrate good health this holiday season with the annual "Hold the Stuffing" Challenge. Read More

The START! Activity Tracker helps you track your activity and encourages you to live an active lifestyle. Read More

Log your steps for the 2014 Start! Physical Activity Challenge. Read More

Take on the Start! Challenge and help Vanderbilt reach the goal of 2.15 billion steps for 2014. Read More

Share your success story with Health Plus. Read More

It's not too late to participate! Log 250,000 steps in the third quarter to win a prize. Read More

The weather is perfect for taking your exercise outside or having a stroll through the many trails around Vanderbilt. Join Brad Awalt from Health Plus for a walking tour of the trails and to learn more about Start!. Read More

LaManda Watson LaManda Watson, an administrative assistant in the Department of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology and Pulmonary Medicine, turned a fear into a healthy lifestyle change. Watson has always been afraid of elevators. She decided to take the stairs to be healthy and lose weight. Through challenging herself to take the… Read More

The Vanderbilt community collectively logged 2,094,773,632 steps in the 2013 Start! Challenge, exceeding the goal of 2 billion steps for 2013. That’s enough steps to circle the earth 31 times! Health Plus’ 2014 Start! Physical Activity Challenge is now underway. Participants are challenged to log 1 million steps by Dec. 31, 2014, to… Read More

If you have completed a minimum of 200,000 steps for the Start! 2013 Challenge 4, you are eligible to pick up your prize, a long-sleeved t-shirt, at one of the Hold the Stuffing weigh-in locations below. Come early for best size availability. Did you participate in the… Read More

The Start! Physical Activity program begins Challenge 4 on Oct. 1. Read More

Walking or biking on trails can be a great way to enjoy the outdoors. Read More

We are currently at 1.2 billion and we need your help! Read More

The 2011 Nashville Heart Walk. (Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt) Did you know … … that one in three people will die from heart disease? … that every 45 seconds, someone in America has a stroke – a total of more than three-quarters of a million people each year? … that more… Read More