Step Challenge

It is possible to convert around 70 different activities into steps. Once an activity such as football, swimming or strength training has been done, it is easily entered into WellChallenge by entering the type of activity, the date and the number of minutes.

The possibility of converting activities motivates participants to try new forms of exercise. It is also possible to turn off the activity conversion completely if you want the challenge to be all about walking.

The main part of the step challenge is to walk a virtual route. During the challenge, each team or user represents a marker on the map.

The route from start to finish goes through a number of milestones. The date the teams/participants pass is recorded and allows for the awarding of milestone prizes.

WellChallenge has a lot of routes to choose from, but it’s also possible to have a custom route in which you decide the places for start, end and a few milestones.

With bonus assignments, participants can register other good health-promoting activities that affect health, not only physically but also mentally and socially! The activities also include challenges to inspire people to try new small things that are easy to do in everyday life, take little time to complete, but still have a big impact.

Some examples of bonus assignments:

• Have screen-free time after 21:00
• Tried a new fruit or vegetable
• Offered support or help to a colleague or friend
• Spent time in nature

Also, incentive schemes do not only have to be health-promoting. As a company, do you have an organizational goal to reduce your CO2 emissions? A bonus task could be to leave your car at home for a day or choose food with a low climate impact.

Choose whether a bonus assignment should be active during the whole challenge or during a specific week.

“Joint activities” is a feature that you can choose to activate in the challenge to encourage people to do activities together. Not only is it more fun to exercise together, but sometimes you need someone to make sure it actually happens!

The “Joint activities” feature makes it possible to tag other contestants, and when the tagged people log in, they have the possibility to confirm their participation. Once all participants have confirmed, the extra steps/points are awarded.

Each additional participant gives 10% extra steps. 

We recommend dividing participants into teams where the team members can encourage each other to be active.

If the teams are of different sizes, an average value is calculated, and it is, therefore, possible to have different-sized groups.

Teams are not mandatory in the Step Challenge. It’s possible to run an individual challenge.

To motivate each other, you can write messages in the challenge.

Cheer on your team members, tell your colleagues about walking routes, or why not brag about your new step record! A message can either be displayed to all participants or only to your team.

It’s also possible to add a photo to your message, to answer messages and to like/react with different emojis.

Automated push messages are sent to app users (who have approved it) on several occasions:

• When the challenge is about to start or end
• When your team passed by a milestone
• When someone tagged you in a joint activity

It’s also possible for administrators to send out custom push notifications to participants.

Create your own personal profile picture by selecting hairstyles, clothes, colours and much more.

Do you want to use the challenge as a way to motivate more exercise in the workplace and contribute to charity at the same time.

With the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) module, steps are converted into money, which is displayed inside the application.

For the step challenge, the charity can be carried out in two different ways:

1. You enter an amount of money per number of steps, for example, 10 EUR for a specific cause per 10,000 steps. The amount is totalled and presented to the participants throughout the challenge. A maximum amount can be set if desired.
2. You set one or more levels. For example, when your company reaches 1,000,000 steps, you donate a set amount to charity. It is possible to have several levels where the competition page shows which level has been passed and how many steps are left for the next level.

WellChallenge only provides a visual presentation. You manage the money yourself and decide where and how to donate it.

At the end of the step challenge, participants are invited to answer a few simple questions about exercise habits and such. The results can greatly help you as a company when evaluating the step challenge and planning new wellness activities in the future.

Our fitness level is an important resource for having the strength and energy to do what we want to do. WellChallenge includes a question-based test where all participants can test their own fitness level throughout the challenge and find out how good it is.

The test gives you a so-called test value. The recommendation for a sedentary office job is to have a test value of at least 35. The test value of 35 is approximately what is needed to oxygenate the body and brain for a full working day and to have energy left afterward. It is also considered to be a threshold for not risking ill health related to the fitness level. Achieving a test value of 35 requires about half an hour of heart rate-raising exercise daily.

At the end of the test, the participant decides whether to save the results.

The question-based fitness test is available in both step competitions and activity challenges and is based on an adaptation of a published scientific article in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.

Do you use Slack or Teams in your company? Then you can connect WellChallenge to these and get updates on, e.g. when a team passed a milestone.

As an administrator, you choose which types of messages to send and in which channel to display them.

The challenge is available via the WellChallenge App, which can be downloaded from Google Play and App Store, and also via www.wellchallenge.io.

Most features are available in both the app and the web. However, some features (like Apple Health and Health Connect) are only available via the app.

The challenge has to run in one selected timezone, meaning if you have participants from different parts of the world, you have to select which timezone should be used for the challenge.