Creating a fitness challenge from scratch can feel overwhelming, especially when you’re faced with all the variables involved—goal setting, daily tasks, tracking, and challenge types. Using a Ready-to-go challenge templates can simplify the process, allowing you to focus more on engaging participants and less on the setup.

Whether you’re new to creating challenges or simply want a quicker way to get started, a template will provide a structured framework that takes the guesswork out of the equation. You’ll have your challenge setup in minutes by simply following our 5-step setup wizard.

Choosing a Template vs Custom Setup

When setting up a fitness challenge for your organization, you will no doubt face the decision between designing a custom challenge or choosing a Ready-to-go challenge template. While a custom challenge set up can offer more customization, templates are a great alternative for a quick, complete set up.

Ready-to-go challenge templates are designed with ease of use in mind – great for busy challenge administrators and small businesses who don’t have the resources to spend towards creating a comprehensive challenge from scratch. They help to eliminate the guesswork by including pre-determined parameters that can be configured in just a few clicks.

If you have a larger organization or more complex needs for our challenge, you can always choose one of our Support plans. With support plans, you tell us what you want, and our team will set up your challenge in no time.

Defining your goals

Before selecting a Ready-to-go challenge template, it’s important to define your goals for the challenge. Are you simply looking to promote more daily movement? Are you interested in broader well-being objectives? Or are you looking to help diversify participants’ approach to movement?

Having an idea of what your goals are will help you choose the right Ready-to-go challenge template for your organization. Since our templates are best organized by challenge type, knowing what you want to achieve beforehand will help you ensure the best alignment between your goals and your chosen template.

Selecting the right Ready-to-go challenge template

Once you’ve clarified your goals, the next step is to choose the best template from the available options. First, it’s important to consider the challenge type.

• Step challenges are about keeping track of how many steps your participants take over a set time .
• Activity challenges require participants to actively ‘start’ and ‘stop’ an activity on their device or app.
• Fitness challenges are specific challenges that focus on one type of exercise.
• Well-being challenges are for types of activities that fall outside of traditional fitness and contribute to overall personal well-being.

Other factors to consider are:

• Should there be an option to include teams?
• Do you want to set daily targets?
• Are you looking to connect your challenge to an available virtual map?
• Should there be an option to work towards a collective goal?

Configuring additional options

Once you’ve chosen your template, it’s time to configure the key parameters. Even when you use a Ready-to-go challenge template, there is some room to customize your challenge. Configurable additional options include one or more of the following:

• Set a daily goal
• Add a team leaderboard
• Enable automatic step conversion
• Enable manual entries
• Add a total time leaderboard
• Add a distance leaderboard
• Track only on weekdays While most templates have additional configurable options, not all challenges will have the same, so make sure you double check for the configurations you’re looking for.

Customizing these options helps ensure that your template challenge still feels personal and engaging, even if it’s built on a Ready-to-go template.

Setting up your Template Challenge

Setting up your Ready-to-go challenge template is easy! Simply go to the challenge directory, choose the template you want to use, and click “Start this challenge”. This will launch the 5-step event wizard that walks you through an easy set up. Make sure to take your time going through these steps – once you have finalized your template configurations, you will not be able to make any adjustments.

Once you’ve completed the wizard, it’s time to upload your logo and choose the color of your platform. This step allows that extra sprinkle of customization to keep participants excited about joining a challenge.

When your Ready-to-go challenge template is configured and you’ve made the preferred customizations, it’s time to publish your event! Remember: pricing depends on the number of participants.

And that’s it! A published challenge means it’s time to start inviting participants to join and get started!

Conclusion

Creating a comprehensive and engaging corporate fitness challenge doesn’t have to be complicated. We have created our Ready-to-go challenge templates to simplify the process for teams who don’t have the resources (be it time, budget, or staff) to create a challenge from scratch. Are you ready to get started? Head over to our Ready-to-go challenge template catalog today!