GET your walking shoes on - The Tweed Daily News needs you to stand up for town pride!

We're about to launch a stepping challenge, encouraging individuals to do something about their fitness leading into summer, and we'll be competing with other towns and cities to see which place walks the most.

If we don't start making lifestyle changes today, we won't be around long enough to make them later.

Hence the Kick the Kilos stepping challenge, and to help motivate you, Australian surfing champion Sally Fitzgibbons joined our Weekend magazine team on Saturday to share her fitness tips and give us a nudge in the right direction with her own 12-week challenge.

"If I could help one person into a healthier lifestyle, for me, that's the most rewarding thing,” she said.

The Tweed Daily is determined to impact many lives. We're going up against 14 other regions in Queensland and northern NSW who have signed up to our Kick the Kilos stepping competition. So, where is our fittest town?

The aim is to walk or run as many kilometres as you can over 12 weeks, log your scores in our Strava app group, and it will pool together with everyone else's scores in that group. The town that racks up the biggest distance overall and per capita wins.

The competition starts on Saturday so we have a few days to sign up as many people as possible in our region to Strava - so spread the word.

As editor of The Tweed Daily News, I care about our community. I've signed up to the competition, my staff have signed up, and I am asking you to get on board.

I challenge business leaders and community group heads to encourage their staff and members to join. Let's show other regions what we're made of and Kick the Kilos together.

Nikki Todd,

Tweed Daily News

HOW TO SIGN UP:

1. Download Strava from your app store.

2. Set up a Strava account with your email address and a password. Select running as your core activity.

3. Once you have your account, click on the three dots in the bottom right corner, 'more'. Click on clubs. You can then click on the search tool in the top right corner and search Kick the Kilos. Find the Tweed Daily News group and hit join. You are now part of the group and ready to hit the pavement.

We'll explain how to log your workouts when we start next Saturday.