Weekly Personal Challenges

[jaf0905]

Has anyone here set themselves a weekly challenege? It's something I've been thinking about doing for awhile, but haven't quite put into practive. For example, a Weekly Challenge to hit 20,000 steps every day for seven days or to climb 25 staircases a day.

[WendyB]

Yes. Thats what fitbit is for.  You can set it on your Dashboard.

To do so on The dashboard Hover your mouse towards the bottom of the tile until you see a Gear. Click on it and you can change it to what ever you want.

[jaf0905]

Does that change it for the day (onwards) or retrospective? So if I set my target at 20k steps for example, is that from today or will it apply to the days where I only achieved 15k?

[WendyB · Accepted solution]

Its for today Onwards. If you set it for 20K per day and Only make 15K you just dont reach your goal that day. Not a big deal for me anyways.

You can also chnage it anytime you want. If you start doing less and cant meet the goal then Change it

[jaf0905]

That's great, thanks. Did not know that. Have been challenging myself unofficially to hit 20k lately, but left my goal at 10k as I didn't want to change things retrospectively. I must have incorrectly assumed this based on past experience with MyFitnessPal and adjusting calorie goals.

[Pril]

I do, My first week with the fit bit i wanted to see what my normal was so when I set challenges up for myself i set them low enought to obtain them and high enought where i'm stepping up my game. 

i know it might not be a lot to some  but my goal for this week is 6000 steps. I missed one day and I have a surgry coming up so it will be longer then a week. 

i love to add to my work outs and one day i'll get to 20000 steps a day. just not right away. 

[jaf0905]

I like the idea of having my target set at a figure (usually 10,000 steps) but aiming unofficially to hit a higher target (usually 15,000 or 20,000). That way I'm pushing myself without forcing myself to achieve it but still meeting what I see as my minimum criteria. Today when I got home from work, I looked at my tracker and saw 13,500ish and was disappointed so it works for me. I remember the days when achieving 10,000 seemed impossible.

[Liz_J]

I found when I changed my target it changed the whole 3 months. So when I set it to 10000 the graphs were green when I went over but when I changed it to 14000 they were all grey unless I went coast 14. So I set it back to 10 then it always looks like I did better

[Liz_J]

I found when I changed my target it changed the whole 3 months. So when I set it to 10000 the graphs were green when I went over but when I changed it to 14000 they were all grey unless I went past 14. So I set it back to 10 then it always looks like I did better

[kaelarenee7]

I have my Fitbit set so that my daily step goal is 10,000 steps but I also have a notebook with some other goals that I plan to set for each month. I just set up my notebook, so I only have goals for the rest of February.

I haven't been hitting the 10,000 step goal each day so one of my goals is to hit 52,500 steps a week, or approximately 75% of the 70,000 steps I would be getting a week if I was hitting the 10,000 steps a days. I'm hoping to up my step goal and actually do 10,000 steps a day in March.

I left my Fitbit goal at 10,000 steps a day so that I could strive to reach that number, but I'll be satisfied with 52,500 steps a week for the rest of the month.

I also have goals for mileage for bike riding, which Fitbit doesn't keep track of. I'm aiming for a total of 50 miles ridden on my bike by the end of February.