Healthy Living Blog

Walking a million steps

A million is still one of the those wonderfully ambitious numbers that still draws us in, which is why it's not surprising that a lot of our customers use this number as a bench mark for their walking challenge. Getting a group of your employees or friends together and into teams to try and collectively walk a million steps together is such a fun goal to strive for and one that lends itself so easily to good marketing. Using our step challenge apps and website, users can easily track their own steps and automatically add them to their team's total.

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Team Step Challenges

Let's break down the number and see what sorts of challenges you could run that would end up with a million steps.

A walk for teams of 4 over 4 weeks.

A million steps would lends itself great to a 4 week challenge, for teams of 4. Over the course of this time an average team would collectively walk around 1,00,000 steps together. We have a number of routes that would perfectly for this, such as Brittany, Sri Lanka and the Golden Triangle. You can see some information about these below.

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Step Challenge Pricing

To run one of our standard step challenges can be as little as £500 / €600 / $700 for up to 100 users. Why not check our pricing page to get an instant challenge quote and more information.

Get your employees moving with a step count challenge

Getting a workplace's employees active, healthy and happy is an incredibly important part of any responsible employer, but finding out where to start is often as hard as actually doing it!

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Make it simple and choose walking

Walking is one of the most easily accessible ways of keeping fit. It doesn't require any specialist equipment, you can do it alone or in groups, and you can even do it in your own house if you want! There are numerous studies showing the benefits of walking on both physical and mental well being, but the important take away is that it is gentle on the body. This is great when you are trying to be inclusive of a large workforce with differing levels of mobility and physical fitness.

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The ease of a step count

One of the biggest benefits of running a step count challenge is that you can simply increase your daily step count as you get more confident with your walking. Participants in a walking challenge are in charge of their own goals and can use their daily step count as a metric to push themselves as the weeks go on.

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Build your own challenge

Big Team Challenge allows you to build your own walking challenge.

• Choose from over 200 virtual routes
• Set team sizes
• choose when it starts and ends
• upload your logo
• create and edit teams
• and much more

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Sign up for free

You can sign up for your free account today and try out our challenge creator. You'll only ever need to pay if you want to publish your challenge.
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Get an instant quote

Use our online step count challenge pricing form to get an instant quote, or chat with in person with an advisor

Group Walking Challenge

With summer fast approaching, now is a great time to start a team walking challenge with your friends, family or community group. With lockdown still restricting our activity choices at the moment, walking is great alternative that is free to do, accessible anywhere and has a very low impact on joints. Read more about what the UK NHS has to say on the matter: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/walking-for-health/

Creating a walking challenge on Big Team Challenge takes less than 5 minutes and you can instantly have your friends signing up online and setting up their own teams. This is a great way of building some friendly competition between teams as you all try to cover the same virtual route together.

Everyone participating in your challenge will have access to both our website version and the mobile apps too, allowing them to keep track of their and everyone else's progress while at home or on the go!

Challenge Features

• Private to only you and your participants
• Admin area to control and monitor your challenge
• Access to website and app
• Create or join teams
• Track your steps manually or use a smart watch like Fitbit, Garmin or Apple Watch.
• Earn achievements
• Teams Leaderboard

Read more about our step challenge features

Team Building Remotely

We are entering a new era for businesses around the world with more and more of the workforce moving to remote working. This is an exciting prospect and has an incredible amount of positive aspect for employees such as less commuting time, lower expenses and home comforts! But it also comes with its losses. A large one of these is the social aspects that a shared workplace brings to its employees.

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Connecting With Your Team

Creating team building exercises is a great way to engage with your workforce and build connections between your teams that you may have lost with everyone moving to remote working. Building these bonds between your teams is incredibly important for morale and employee motivation. The relatively low costs of these initiatives can bring in huge financial returns in the form of increased productivity, lower sick days and greater mental wellbeing.

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Create A Step Challenge To Help With Your Team Building

Big Team Challenge allows you to create your very own tailored step challenge online. Our system allows your users to register online or via the app, create or join an existing team and track their steps along a virtual map around the world. This is a fantastic way of not only contributing towards your employee wellbeing program and healthy working lives initiatives, but help build friendly competition between teams as they each track their steps and compete on the leaderboard.

Learn more about our corporate team building challenges

Or view our pricing to learn just how little it costs

Engaging with your remote workers

With more and more employees working remotely lately, it can be difficult to boost team morale and engage with your friends and colleagues. Creating a team walking challenge can be a great way to start building those connections back up while also creating healthy exercise routines.

Big Team Challenge has been developed to work in tandem with remote participants, with our website and apps available all around the world and easy online sign up to make the process seamless.

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Employee Wellbeing

It's almost universally acknowledged that an active and healthy member of staff is not only happier, but a more productive member of your team. Looking after your workforce's mental and physical wellbeing will likely be financially beneficial to the company in the long run. Using our step count challenge to help build a new attitude towards walking is a great first step in your company's wellbeing plan.

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Different challenge modes

Our walking challenges have two modes of competion: Teams Vs Teams and One Big Challenge. Each has all of your employees getting into teams.

• If you are running a 'Teams vs Teams' challenge, your teams will be competing against each other to complete the same route. This offers some friendly competition and is our more popular option.
• If you are running a 'One Big Challenge', your teams are all contributing to move each other along one big route together. This option is good for smaller challenges of between 100 and 300 users. Any more than 300 and you begin to loop around the world pretty quickly!

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Create your own step count challenge

Get in touch today to learn about our pricing and how our system can be tailored to suit your employees.