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There should be a larger variety of challenges that could be long like a month long or short like a couple of hours and there should be rewards for challenges you participate in with friends/family like gift cards for a variety of stores
I agree with the idea of more challenges. I would suggest a 7 day long challenge, rather just separating the workweek from the weekend. There should also be the ability to have more than 10 people in a challenge.
I agree there should be a customization ability for challenges. A friend of mine is getting married in April... would be great to have all of our fitbit friends active and motivated together. We could measure steps, number of lbs lost, etc. More than 10 would be great too.
Would like to see an addition of a month long challenge in addition to the 4 current ones (Workweek Hustle, Daily Showdown, etc.) It would give people more time to get in their steps in case they have a busy or bad week, etc. and it will average the steps out more.
How about various challenges such as steps, distance, floors climbed, active minutes, and calories burned over a variety of time periods: 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 1 year. I'd love to do a year long calorie burning challenge.
Also lifetime achievement are pretty much meaningless except as an indication of how long you have been on fitbit. Make these annual or monthly achievements
I agree I like like time achievements. Maybe though if you kicked butt on a challenge and beat your own record that could be a badge. You gotta celebrate when you do good.
Really wish we had challenges based on things other than just steps, I'm in a step challenge now and have absolutely no motivation to do anything other than walking. Bike rides seem pointless because they're no steps! If we could have an active minutes challenge or a calories burnt challenge I'd be much more motivated to do all sorts of different exercise.
Yes, yes! MORE! I believe Fitbit's social infrastructure is good, BUT it's not great. More challenges, more people, more customization... MORE, LOL!. I'm surprised it hasn't been done yet. It could really set the community apart and put it way ahead of the Competition.
I agree with these challenges. It would be great as someone said to have a calorie goal challenge. Different challenges and group challenges keep things interesting.
Would be nice to have teams on challenges. My husband and I do challenges with friends. Some weeks we do couple versus couple. Some week we do girls versus guys. Would be nice to assign teams instead of having to add up steps.
Yes! Increasing the varieties of challenges would be great. Month long challenges would especially interest me since it takes 21 days to build a new habit. A month long challenge could provide the additional motivation needed to help exercising stick!
Calorie challenges - reporting meals everyday, eating within calorie goal, etc. I still need to develop this as a healthy habit and my guess is, others too!
I agree with all of these posts. Starting with badges, how about more for distance such as something between penguin march and London underground? There are probably dozens of other lifetime distance badges that could fit in between the existing ones or even after pole to pole. As for challenges, allowing more than 5 at a time would be great. How about challenges related to floors, active minutes and calories burned? Like others, I love the fact that the app is social so maybe allowing a way to post a simple current status (I'm feeling..., had a great run, etc...) that gets overwritten whenever you update it (so it doesn't turn into another Twitter) would be cool.
To start with, FitBit needs to let us be in more than just FIVE challenges at a time. What's up with that? And, they are counting the challenges that are over but haven't been synced up yet and the challenges that I've signed up for but haven't begun yet as part of those five challenges. I am finding it very limiting. It ends up that I can only be in 2 or 3 challenges at a time.
From all the previous comments on this post, I hope that FitBit can see that a lot of the users really enjoy the competitive aspect of the challenges and that there are many ideas for increasing access to fun challenges with my FitBit friends.
One other suggestions I've been in a challenge like 4 weeks in a row they should give out badges for doing so many, beating old records, coming in 1st so many times. Little rewards like this are highly motivational for me
I love the $2 to join and winner takes the pot. I used an app like that and it donated to my favorite charity. Definitely need more options to choose from for challenges. I am bored of the same challenges every week
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