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5 ways HR and Wellbeing teams can stop running fitness challenges in spreadsheets
Spreadsheets make company-wide fitness challenges harder to manage as they scale, adding unnecessary admin for HR teams. This post outlines five ways to replace manual processes with automation, real-time tracking, and centralized management. The result is more engaging challenges that are easier to run and scale.
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Spreadsheets make company-wide fitness challenges harder to manage as they scale, adding unnecessary admin for HR teams. This post outlines five ways to replace manual processes with automation, real-time tracking, and centralized management. The result is more engaging challenges that are easier to run and scale.
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6 signs it’s time to rethink your wellness strategy
This article explores six signs that your current approach is no longer meeting employee needs and highlights opportunities to improve participation, reduce administration, and create more meaningful outcomes. By focusing on consistency, flexibility, measurement, and long-term engagement, organizations can build a wellness strategy that delivers lasting impact.
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8 ways to re-engage employees who dropped off mid-challenge
When employees drop off mid-challenge, it doesn't mean your wellness program is failing. Small adjustments to your approach can help participants rebuild momentum, reconnect with their goals, and rejoin the challenge with confidence. Here are eight practical tactics to boost engagement and encourage long-term participation.
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5 quick workouts employees can do in under 10 minutes
Short, desk-friendly workouts can help employees stay active even during busy workdays. This article outlines five simple routines employees can do in 5–10 minutes to boost energy, mobility, and focus. It also explores how organizations can turn these small movement breaks into engaging team challenges with MoveZenGo.
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Introducing Personal, Friend, and Crew challenges
MoveZenGo’s new Personal, Friend, and Crew challenges empower participants to create their own goal-driven, social mini-challenges, making wellbeing feel more personal, flexible, and engaging. By sustaining momentum beyond a single event, these features drive ongoing participation and connection—without adding extra work for admins.
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9 ideas for wellbeing challenges for remote teams
Hybrid work can make it harder for employees to stay connected, but wellbeing challenges give teams a shared goal that encourages movement and interaction across locations. From step challenges and virtual journeys to photo scavenger hunts and team competitions, simple activities can keep participation high while supporting both physical and mental wellbeing. With platforms like MoveZenGo, organizations can easily launch and manage engaging challenges that bring remote and in-office employees together.
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7 Team-Building Activities That Actually Improve Mental Health
Team-building improves mental health when it’s inclusive, low-pressure, and sustainable—not competitive or one-off. Movement challenges, shared rituals, and do-it-together activities strengthen connection and reduce stress. For wellbeing leads, impact shows up in consistent engagement and long-term habit change.
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8 wellbeing initiatives that actually increase employee engagement
Effective employee well-being programs create easy, inclusive, and enjoyable ways for teams to connect, engage, and build healthy habits together, ultimately boosting motivation, collaboration, and a sense of shared purpose at work.
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9 employee perks that go beyond the gym membership
Modern employees want flexible, inclusive, and personalized well-being support that goes far beyond traditional gym memberships, offering convenient, holistic, and engaging perks that fit their real lives and work environments.
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8 easy desk exercises for employees who sit all day
Here are 8 simple, low-barrier ways for your employees to add movement into their days.
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7 Common Mistakes Organizations Make With Wellness Programs (and How to Fix Them)
We’ll walk you through the seven most common mistakes organizations make with their corporate wellness initiatives, and how to correct them.
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Your 8-step guide to running a fair and engaging step challenge
Running a fair and fun step challenge requires clear communication, thoughtful design, and smart use of tools like MoveZenGo’s anti-cheating features to promote honesty, discourage manipulation, and keep the focus on health, teamwork, and genuine participation.
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Build it your way: A planner’s guide to the perfect fitness challenge
By following eight key steps -from deciding leaderboard criteria to celebrating success- you can design an inclusive, engaging, and goal-driven event that motivates participants and fosters lasting healthy habits.
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Own your fitness experience: The power of co-branding wellness programs and events
MoveZenGo is built to fit your organization—visually, functionally, and experientially—so you can deliver a seamless, on-brand wellness experience from day one.
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Case Study: World Marathon Majors
Abbott World Marathon Majors (WMM) successfully migrated its Global Run Club platform with 33,000 users to MoveZenGo, marking a strategic shift towards greater control, scalability, and user engagement.
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Get to Know MoveZenGo: What It Means for You (and Your Renewal)
Our new branding is officially online and we want to introduce you to what this new chapter really means.
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MoveZenGo: The Next Chapter
Move for motion. Zen for balance. Go for action.
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Unlocking Wellbeing: How to Use Our Wellbeing Packs for a Healthier Workforce
Wellbeing Packs are curated challenge bundles that focus on different aspects of wellbeing. They cover a specific topic to provide participants with a holistic approach to their wellbeing.
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Introducing MoveZenGo
MoveZenGo: Move for motion, Zen for balance, and Go for action
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Our Partnership with Les Mills Brings 250 New Workout Videos to You!
We’re thrilled to announce a new partnership with Les Mills, bringing 250 brand-new workout videos to our platform! This exclusive content includes a diverse range of yoga, wellbeing, dance, and cycling sessions, all designed to be low-entry and accessible to individuals of all fitness levels.
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The Ultimate Guide to Team Challenges
Team leaderboards are a simple yet powerful gamification tool for your next fitness or wellness challenge – by enhancing motivation, engagement, and a sense of community for your participants.
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Best Practices for Running a Successful Fitness Challenge with CorporateFitness.app
After over 3,500 successful events across more than 1,000 organizations, we’ve put together the key best practices for running a corporate fitness challenge that resonates with all participants and drives long-term engagement.
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How to Reignite Motivation in the Final Days of Your Challenge
We cover 4 tips to help you keep your team engaged till the last day of your fitness challenge.
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Step Conversions: Should You Use Them for Your Fitness Challenge?
In this article, we'll break down the pros and cons of including step conversions and help you decide which approach is right for your fitness challenge.
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Evaluate Your Fitness Challenge with These 3 Key Strategies
In this article, we’ll walk you through the 3 key strategies for evaluating and delivering a successful fitness challenge.
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7 Strategies to Keep Engagement High During Company Fitness Challenges
Launching a challenge is great for boosting morale, encouraging healthier habits, and building a sense of community within the workplace. However, a well-executed challenge requires thoughtful, consistent effort to keep participants motivated and connected throughout.
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From Daunting to Doable : Setting Up Fitness Challenges in Minutes
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.
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A Guide to Planning your Year of Wellness
This guide helps you prepare for a balanced year-long wellness initiative. A well-rounded program should be diverse, engaging, and cater to different fitness levels, interests, and seasons.
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NASA Moves! 2024
Celebrating Success: NASA’s Second Milestone Event with CorporateFitness.app
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9 Reward Ideas to Motivate Employees in Your Fitness Challenge
Recognizing and celebrating participants' efforts with thoughtful rewards can significantly enhance motivation and participation. Let’s dive into nine exciting reward ideas that can make your fitness challenge a hit.
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How Effective Branding Can Boost Engagement in Your Corporate Fitness Challenges
Incorporating a fitness challenge into your corporate wellness plan can have great benefits for your organization. Coming together to work towards a common movement goal is a prime opportunity to help your employees feel more connected to your brand.
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Managing Your Fitness Challenges
Launching your corporate fitness challenge is just the beginning. You've carefully planned the challenge type, set clear goals, and determined the duration. Here’s how to ensure your event runs smoothly and keeps participants motivated until the very end.
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Connecting Remote Teams Through Fitness Challenges
A fitness challenge might be just what your company wellness initiative needs. Fitness challenges naturally foster teamwork, which can enhance comradery and collaboration in other settings as well.
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36 Ideas for Naming Your Fitness Challenge
One effective way to boost your corporate wellness program is by using creative and catchy names for fitness challenges, aligning them with the spirit of each month. We have curated a collection of fun and inspiring fitness challenge names, organized by month, to captivate your team's attention and drive participation.
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The Lifecycle of a Fitness Challenge
CorporateFitness.app manages fitness challenges in workplaces, vital for employee health and engagement. The article explores three phases of event management: planning, execution, and evaluation, aiming to maximize participation and satisfaction.
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Case Study: Lenovo
Together with MoveZenGo, Lenovo was able to successfully run the “Walk for Water” event to support access to clean water in Kenya. A total of 700 participants walked over 30,000 miles to raise nearly $100,000 towards resources and water wells between World Water Day and Earth Day.
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Guide: How to launch a one-off challenge
Launching a one-off corporate fitness challenge takes some thought and preparation. In this article, we’ll walk you through some of the questions and considerations you should ask yourself when planning a one-off corporate fitness challenge.
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Guide: How to choose the perfect challenge type
With our platform, you can tailor challenges to match your desired level of physical activity and collective objectives for motivating your employees. In this article, we will explore the different types of challenges and help you choose the most suitable challenge type for your organization.
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Case Study: NASA
In 2023, NASA marked a milestone with the 10th anniversary of their annual NASA Moves! step challenge, in collaboration with MoveZenGo.
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Case Study: ST Engineering
By using MoveZenGo, ST Engineering was able to exceed expectations for their annual MOVEment challenge. Close to 2,000 participants were able to collectively raise over 60,000 dollars for the good cause.
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Balancing Acts: Exploring the Spectrum of Competitiveness and Inclusion in Fitness Challenges
We explore different goals to setup a fitness challenge, emphasizing the need to define success based on organizational goals. Three success measurement approaches are suggested: recognizing top scorers, rewarding consistent participants randomly, or achieving a collective goal.
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MoveSpring just doubled their pricing, switch to a more affordable and engaging alternative now
MoveSpring just doubled their pricing under new ownership. This is the time to switch to a more affordable alternative platform while keeping everyone moving and while staying within your available budget.
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Case Study: The University of Southern California
The partnership between The Living Fuel and MoveZenGo allowed students and staff of The University of Southern California to participate in a unique and engaging step challenge. By utilizing various gamification and rewarding techniques we were able to motivate participants of this step challenge to focus on going out and moving more. We discovered more than 5% increase of daily steps between the first and last week of the challenge.
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Tips for a successful step challenge
Follow these tips and best practices to host an engaging corporate step challenge
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Start a 30x30 fitness challenge
Create a successful 30x30 (30 minutes during 30 days) fitness challenge for your organization.
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Three new ready-to-go journeys available now
We have added three new ready-to-go journeys: Route 66, Solar System, and the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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Personal Daily Target Leaderboards
Allow users to set their own personal targets to level the playing field and allow everyone to focus on reaching their own personal goals.
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Lunch Break Challenges
Lunch break challenges get your team sharp and focused for the rest of the day.
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Pre-designed challenge templates
We're launching pre-designed challenge templates to help you create engaging challenges faster.
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Start a Free Trial
Start a free 14-day trial challenge to try out our platform for up to 5 users.
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Make your challenges even more personalized by aiming towards the users' personal fitness goals.
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Daily and weekly target leaderboards
Daily or weekly target leaderboard allow you to set either a time or step target.
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10 workplace well-being trends to watch in 2026
Workplace well-being in 2026 emphasizes personalized, preventative, and integrated initiatives that support employee health, strengthen connection, and drive sustainable engagement across teams
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6 metrics HR should track to measure employee well-being ROI
Six practical metrics that help HR teams understand whether employee wellbeing initiatives are driving engagement, lasting behavior change, and real business impact.
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