Customizable Challenges (like start date, duration etc)

I would like to be able to set which days I want for a challenge. Not all of my friends work a workweek (Mon-Fri). I would like to be able to make a challenge thats like Thurs-Sun or Mon-Wed-Fri. Or whatever days my friends work during that week. Choose teams and partners.

 

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Somthinsup
Stepping Up
Challenges that are waiting to start and challenges that have ended and waiting to sync should not count toward the 5 challenge limit since those are pending.
Atherto
Jogger
I wish your app had a 7-day challenge. This would make it a lot easier (and a lot more fair) to include participants who have to work weekends and who have two days off a week as a result. Your workweek hustle seems to assume that everyone works M-F.
Atherto
Jogger
I agree...custom challenges wouldbe great as well. For instance, my friend and I are trying to walk 40 miles each a week. A 7-day challenge option would allow us to keep motivating each other
Atherto
Jogger
I would love to see a 7-day challenge. Not everyone works a M-F workweek and it isnt fair for them when they have 2-days off during the traditional workweek. They are either finding it harder to make their steps on those days OR its their long-run day while the rest of us are at work! Plus it would just be more of an overall challenge to keep it up for 7 days
katleg
Jogger

Adding custom challanges would be a great feature. Like a "Let's walk across the country" "Let's walk to the moon challange". So they steps would be added in and customized. 

Also agree to add more than 10 people to a challange. Thank you!

JackD01
First Steps
Would love to see a challenge specific to calories burned as my workouts are not always step specific
Dsmelser
First Steps
Have longer challenges been considered as additional challenge options? Ones like a 7 day week or a month. Or even more sophisticated challenges like Strava offers such as a marathon in a week.
Thanks!
Zoman73
Jogger
I agree we need longer challenges especially 7 days.
Jasonbossert_ma
First Steps
They'd have to have a computer animated expert log the data at the right levels and altitude in algorithms
boomer123
First Steps
Agree also
funnyfishfins
First Steps
Agree wholeheartedly, I also want to create a custom challenge for my family, walk 2,016 miles in the year 2016. We definitely exercise more when we are competing in a challenge, and making our own just makes sense, and can be better tailored to our own exercise and intensity levels.
mantababe
Runner

would like to see different challenges....run based one ie running 10k a wk ect

SunsetRunner
Not applicable

I agree.  It just makes since to have a 7 day challenge.  A monthly challenge would be great as well.

Ohliveuhh
First Steps
Let users decide the challenge and duration! I'd love to challenge my boyfriend to a water drinking competition...
Abood_M
First Steps
Add to that calories challenge
Rikkidale
Jogger
It would be great to have a stairs climbed competition with friends.
VTDave81
Jogger
I, too, was thinking about this: 2 million steps, or 1 month of exercise per year with rate/percentage of completion.
SunsetRunner
Not applicable

My friends and I are trying to move 2016 miles in 2016. How about a monthly or year-long challenge?

Rich_Laue
Community Legend

While this is a great idea,  it would have been better to do a search of this area first. 

This request  already exists with 794 votes.

VTDave81
Jogger
Not entirely constructive, but thanks for your input.
rcahoo7
First Steps
It would be great to be able to custom create challenges to make the goals more interesting
ItsaJimThing
First Steps
My wife works shifts so finds it hard to keep pace with people working a five day week. Any way that you could add a seven day challenge, alongside 'work week' and 'weekend warrior' so we can all track a full week against one another. There must be plenty of shift workers who would value this type of challenge. That said thanks for creating a great motivational tool. I was already moderately active but since getting my Fitbit Flex I am making a point of being active everyday. Keep up the good fight.
Kafferlily
First Steps
Love this idea!
Kafferlily
First Steps
I would like a weekly/monthly challenge like goal day. Many of my friends are at different points in their health story and have different goals...the weekly hustle is unfair to them. They get unmotivated because they're always in the bottom. One that either you had to have 5 goal days in a row to get the award. Or one that you were winning until you missed a goal day, like a last man standing.
mantababe
Runner

please can you increase the number of people we can invite to the challenges. as we can only invite 10 if only 50% of them join the challenge it only leaves you 5 ppl in it. being able to invite more stands more chance of having a full challenge....it would mean the first come first served basis...once challenge is full then no more can join

 

i did once invite others when i had refusals and one person commented on ...oh see im a second thought....ive never done it since then, so if i invite ppl who are already in 5 challenges and thus cant join mine ive wasted places 

 

hope tht makes sense

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