What is an activity challenge?

30 minute target

The goal of the challenge is to be active for 30 minutes a day.

1 minute = 1 point

All activities correspond to 1 point per minute. An activity must last at least 15 minutes to be registered.

Activities for all

Have you been cycling, swimming or playing football? There are over 70 different activities to choose from.

Team and individual

Motivate your teammates to be active while competing in the individual results.

App and website

Download the Wellstep app from the App Store or Google Play, or log in via www.wellstep.se.

How many weeks?

Start the activity challenge on any Monday and you decide how many weeks it will last.

Get a successful wellness initiative with an activity challenge.

An important factor in the success of a wellness initiative is the ability to choose activities based on interest. What’s fun and what suits your fitness level is very individual.

Wellstep’s activity challenge is a good step in the company’s wellness efforts, where each participant can do something on their own or with others. Doing something together increases motivation and makes it easier to get going on the activities, so that they actually happen.

  • Easy and fun wellness challenge for everyone

  • Real-time team and individual results

  • All wellness activities are valued equally

  • Choose for bonus assignments, joint activities, charity etc.

  • Flexible challenge set-up

How does the activity challenge work?

To register activities, log in to the competition page, the website or the Wellstep app. Here you simply fill in the number of minutes and the activity you’ve done. There are around 70 activities to choose from.

All activities are worth 1 point per minute and an activity must be carried out for at least 15 minutes.

The goal of the activity challenge is to be active for at least 30 minutes per day on average. On the competition page, you can see your own and your colleagues’ results both in points and in percentages. A score of 100% means an average of 30 minutes of activity per day for the days of the competition.

As a participant, you can see how many weeks and which of the competition weeks you have completed.

Every Monday at 12 noon, “awards” are given to the participant and team that has accumulated the most points during the previous week.

You can create personal challenges, such as a 100-minute walk per week, and follow the results on the competition page.

Register bonus assignments for physical, mental and social health, but it can also be something completely different. You choose the bonus missions you want to include in your competition and how many points they will give.

Examples of bonus assignments:

  • Have screen-free time after 21:00 21
  • Tried a new fruit or vegetable
  • Offered support or help to a colleague or friend
  • Spent time in nature
  • Stand up and work for an hour
  • Taking a lunchtime walk with a colleague
  • Picked up litter
  • Challenged a colleague to a dance battle
  • Left the car for a whole day

A bonus assignment can be active during the whole competition period or during a specific week.

Encourage employees to do activities together. Not only is it more fun to exercise together, sometimes you need someone to make sure it actually happens!

With this feature, participants get 10% extra steps per extra participant. This means that if 5 participants do an activity together, they will all get 40% extra points on top of the steps the activity normally gives.

The number of joint activities is shown in a separate leaderboard with the teams and participants with the most registrations.

On the competition page, it is also easy to create invitations to joint activities that can either be shown to everyone in the competition or just to your own team. Participants can then click on “I’m in” and their name will appear in a list of registered participants.

To motivate each other, you can write post on the competition page. Cheer on your team members, tip off your colleagues about walking routes or why not brag about a new record! A message can either be displayed to all participants or only to your team.

It is also possible to publish a picture in the post and react to other people’s posts with different emojis.

Possibility to publish the registered activity (activities and bonus missions) in a social activity feed visible to other participants. It is also possible to complement the post in the activity feed with a text and image.

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 Wellstep’s CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) module, points can be converted into dollars that you then donate to the charity of your choice.

The amount is updated in real time and presented on the competition page/app.

For the activity challenge, this can be done in three different ways:

  • You enter an amount in SEK per number of points, for example 10 SEK for a specific cause per 30 points. The amount is totaled and presented to the participants throughout the challenge. A maximum amount can be set if desired.
  • You set one or more levels. For example, when your company reaches 1,000 points, 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 points are left for the next level.
  • It is also possible for the amount to be donated to charity to be based on the percentage of people who reach the 30-minute target. You then set a maximum amount that corresponds to all participants managing 30 minutes of activity during all days of the challenge.

At the end of the activity challenge, participants are invited to answer a few simple questions about exercise habits and such. The results can be very helpful for you as a company when evaluating the activity 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. Wellstep includes a quiz where all participants can test their own fitness throughout the competition and find out how good their breathing really 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 afterwards. 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 fitness test, which is question-based, is based on an adaptation of a published scientific article in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.

Create extra motivation and unity in the competition by having the activity challenge use the same graphic profile as your company. As an administrator, you can easily change Wellstep colors to match your company profile.

It is also possible to add your logo to the competition if you wish.

Do you use Slack or Teams in your company? Then you can connect Wellstep to these and get updates on e.g. the best team of the week.

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

Push notifications are sent out from the Wellstep app for important events in the challenge. Participants also receive a weekly score summary.

As an administrator, it is also possible to send out any message as a push to the challenge participants.

Start page

Activity flow with images

Top list of participants

Activity objectives

Register bonus assignments

Want to know more or get started with an activity challenge?

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You can also reach us on +4631-390 04 15 and info@wellstep.se.

Frequently asked questions about the activity challenge – FAQ

Yes, in the activity challenge, teams are averaged so that there is no advantage or disadvantage in being more or less numerous than other teams.

There are around 70 different wellness activities to choose from. In many cases, we can add special activities to the list in the competition.

No, you don’t have to have teams in the activity challenge. You can choose to either remove teams altogether or if you all want to be in a team together.

Yes, it is possible to display the result in three levels:

  • Individually
  • Team
  • Department

Division can be any division, such as city, country.

Wellstep is available in Swedish and English. Each participant can choose the language of their choice on the login page.

In the activity challenge, all wellness activities are valued equally and you get 1 point per minute, and the goal is to move at least 30 minutes a day. The step challenge counts steps instead of minutes/points and you walk a virtual distance based on the number of steps.

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