What is an activity challenge?

30 minute goal

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 everyone

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 behind a successful wellness initiative is the ability to choose activities based on interest. What’s fun and what suits your fitness level is very individual. Therefore, this type of challenge is a good step in the company’s wellness efforts where each participant can do something on their own or together with others. Doing something together increases motivation and makes it easier to get going on the activities, so that it really happens.

How does the activity challenge work?

How does the activity challenge work?

Register activities

To register activities, log in to the competition page, by logging in here on the website or in the Wellstep app. On the competition page, you simply fill in the number of minutes and the activity performed. There are around 60 activities to choose from. An activity must have been carried out for at least 15 minutes.

Activity goal

The goal of the activity challenge is to be active for at least 30 minutes a day on average. On the competition page, you can see your own and your colleagues’ results in both points and 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 will see how many weeks and which of the competition weeks you have completed.

Awards and prizes

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

More features in the activity challenge

You can compete in both teams and individually. In the team competition, the number of points and percentages for each team can be seen on the competition page. If the teams are of different sizes, an average value is calculated and it is thus possible to have groups of different sizes.

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

At the end of the activity challenge, participants are invited to answer some simple questions about exercise habits and such. The results of the survey can be very helpful for you as a company when evaluating the competition and planning new wellness activities in the future.

The physical condition is an important resource for having both energy and energy left for what we want to do. Wellstep now includes a question-based test where all participants can test their own fitness and find out how good it really is. The test can be performed as many times as desired during the competition. The test gives you a so-called test value. The recommendation if you have a sedentary office job is a test value of at least 35. This is roughly what you need to oxygenate your body and brain for a full working day and have energy left afterwards. It is also considered to be a threshold for not risking ill health related to the fitness level. To achieve a test value of 35, you need to do about half an hour of pulse-raising exercise every day. At the end of the test, the participant chooses whether to save the results. The fitness test, which is question-based, is available in both activity challenges and step competitions and is based on an adaptation of a published scientific article in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.

Possibility to publish the activity (activities and bonus missions) you register in an activity feed visible to other participants. It is also possible to complete the post in the activity feed with a text and image.

To motivate each other, you can write posts on the competition page. Cheer on your team members, tell your colleagues about fun activities or why not brag about your new points! A message can either be shown to all participants or only to your team.

Wellstep is available in both Swedish and English. Login details can be sent in both Swedish and English, and each participant can choose which language they want when logging in.

If you want to divide the participants into departments, this is perfectly possible and you can compare the different departments with each other. With departments, the result is displayed in three levels; individual, team and department.

Do you have questions about the activity challenge?

Contact us if you have any questions about the features of the competition, how to get started or if you have any special requests.

More features in the activity challenge

Premium

Do you want a simple competition or one with more features? Activity Challenge Premium includes features that provide extra engagement and motivation.

Register health-related bonus missions for physical, mental and social health, e.g. cooked a vegetarian meal, stood up and worked for 2 hours straight or screen-free time after 21:00.

Encourage doing activities together. Not only is it more fun to work out together, sometimes you need someone to make sure it actually happens!

Motivate people to get more exercise while contributing to charity.

Match the competition page and app with your company profile. You can choose colors and add your logo if you wish.

Publish messages in Slack or Teams from Wellstep, e.g. a weekly leaderboard with the best teams and participants.

Tag other participants and get extra points

What do our customers think?

  • A really fun way to exercise, we have triggered each other and really worked for the department to get a good placement. It’s also nice that everyone can participate and contribute, you don’t have to be in top shape or fit.
  • What we have noticed most is that we are not as tired anymore and we will continue to move as much afterwards!
  • It has been fun to be involved. I feel better, happier and have lost a few kilos.
  • A great kick in the butt.
  • The competition has led to nice conversations with people in the company who would otherwise not have been in contact.

Try the activity challenge for free!

Try the activity challenge for free!