Challenges

The 10 most common mistakes when planning an employee wellness challenge – from mandatory participation and unrealistic goals to ignoring mental health and feedback – with a practical fix for each.

February wellness challenges succeed when they prioritize realism, flexibility, and collective momentum. This article shares 10 February wellness challenges designed for real energy levels and real participation. Ideal for maintaining healthy habits when motivation is low.

From step and consistency challenges to stair days and charity goals – 10 office fitness challenge ideas that get your whole team moving, in the office or remotely.

Twelve summer wellness challenges for the office – activity, mind and recovery, and team and community ideas – plus tips for running a challenge during holiday season.

Most step challenges fail midway because the goal is set for the average person, the format is purely individual, and the only reward is a leaderboard that motivates three people. Seventeen formats that fix one or more of those problems, from virtual country walks and manager-vs-team matches to photo walks, surprise spotlight days and multi-activity formats for global teams, with notes on which team shape each fits.

Need fresh ideas? Here are 25 corporate fitness challenge ideas for office, hybrid and remote teams – organized by goal, so you can pick the right one quickly.

30 ideas for a 30-day challenge – from squats and stairs to sleep, water and recognition – grouped by theme, plus 5 steps to start with your team.

Need fresh ideas? Here are 52 wellness challenge ideas for your employees – one for every week of the year – covering movement, nutrition, sleep, mental wellbeing and team spirit.

A year-long wellness challenge plan with one movement challenge each month – individual, team and collective – designed so people of every age and fitness level can succeed.

The complete list of YuMuuv challenge activities: 12 that sync automatically from phones and wearables, 29 manual-entry wellness habits and custom activities, plus goal types, example goals and tips for choosing the right challenge.

Turn your team's combined kilometers into a journey. How to set a realistic distance goal, plus 10 virtual journey ideas.

Practical employee wellness program examples and a ready-made 12-month challenge plan you can copy and set up in minutes.

Five summer team engagement ideas that get people outdoors – a triathlon-inspired points challenge, hydration, mindful breaks in the sun, a summer steps challenge and an outdoor team adventure – with how to run each in YuMuuv.

Four-week challenges reliably produce excellent four-week behavior and zero long-term change, because the new habit dies the moment the challenge ends. Habit stacking — tying a new behavior to an existing daily anchor like morning coffee or closing the laptop — is the most durable fix, and this piece walks through specific stacks for steps, sleep, hydration, mindfulness, and exercise. It also makes the case for a twelve-week program arc, with the challenge as kickoff and the habit stack as the engine that keeps behavior alive long after the leaderboard closes.

A year-long wellness challenge plan with a different activity or healthy habit every month – from exercise and sleep to planking, cycling and mindfulness – to keep people engaged all year.

Why do some companies' fitness challenges thrive while others fizzle out? Here are 8 steps to build a workplace fitness culture that keeps people active all year.

A practical, step-by-step guide to creating a step challenge – plus copy-paste templates for the rules, announcement, mid-challenge update and results.

When you rarely see your people, engagement has to be designed on purpose. Here are 12 practical ways to engage remote employees.

A step-by-step guide to organizing a company fitness challenge that people join, finish and remember – from setting goals and choosing the format to rewards and launch.

Why people cheat in wellness challenges and nine ways to build a culture of fair play – clear rules, automatic tracking, consistency goals and inclusive rewards – plus what to do if someone cheats.

This is a practical guide to running an Ironman-distance triathlon (3.8 km swim, 180 km bike, 42.2 km run) as a wellness challenge stretched across a week, a month, or a full summer so almost anyone can finish it. It gives the exact points conversion that keeps the three sports fair (10 points per km swimming, 1 per km cycling, 4 per km running), the canonical targets for Sprint, Olympic, Half, and Full Ironman, and a pacing breakdown for every reasonable time window. Positioned as a "niche challenge" for the already-engaged slice of a workforce — not a replacement for the steps, minutes, and distance challenges that drive broad engagement.

Telia's Mihkel Kaasik set out to walk a million steps in 28 days. Read his story and learn how to run a million steps challenge on your own or as a team.

Short, one-day to one-week challenges that break the routine. Here is how to run mini competitions at work, plus 8 quick ideas.

An annual wellness challenge plan designed so that everyone can take part – twelve easy monthly challenges covering mindfulness, sleep, movement, hydration, the outdoors and healthy cooking.

Everything you need to organize a successful step challenge at work – from purpose, teams and goals to rewards, communication and choosing a platform.

Companies have used the YuMuuv platform for charity challenges for a long time, but the “Step Your Way to Christmas” challenge, held from 15 November to 5 December 2021, was the first to bring several companies together under one common goal.

An opt-in strength challenge for your most engaged people: 100 push-ups in one day by the end of the month, with a four-week buildup, squat and plank alternatives, a team version and plain safety rules.

The five most popular YuMuuv challenges are steps, exercise minutes, distance, water drinking and wellness points. Learn why each works, how to set it up well, real customer examples and how to choose the right one for your team.

Virtual fitness challenges include every employee, wherever they work. Here is why they work, the best formats to choose and how to run one at your company.

Active minutes are the minutes you spend moving at moderate or higher intensity. Here is what counts, how different devices and YuMuuv measure them, and easy ways to collect more.

There are as many reasons to run a corporate wellness challenge as there are companies doing it. Here are the 6 most common – and how to define yours.

Every YuMuuv challenge combines what you measure with how the goal works. Here is how each option works and which to choose for your team.

The year-long wellness challenge plan the YuMuuv team uses itself – twelve monthly challenges built around consistency, from intensity minutes and push-ups to water and mindfulness.