Employee wellness
challenges library
Employee wellness challenges turn individual effort into shared momentum — building healthy habits that actually stick.
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Top wellness challenges employees love
Start here. High participation, easy to launch, and proven to build lasting habits from day one.
I've seen a significant increase in engagement and participation due to the step challenges.
Pyry Liukkonen
Fitness Coach, Coach Pyry
We do enjoy the water intake, monitoring the steps, and mindfulness. It has created a fun and friendly competition within our company.
Shana Marino
Specialist People & Culture, Link Logistics
Employees have been drinking more water and taking more steps. Being able to customize our own challenges created a real community for wellness.
Shana Marino
Specialist People & Culture, Link Logistics
Vantage Fit has helped us turn wellness into an active, results-driven initiative by increasing participation and awareness across teams.
Sachin Khodade
Site HR Business Partner, Valeo
The Vantage Fit app is an effective tool for corporate walking challenges — the social aspects have been particularly beneficial in building team relationships.
Elsa Robertson
Senior Associate, Heidrick & Struggles
Category
Format
Physical fitness challenges
From daily step goals to calorie burn and weight loss programs — these challenges turn movement into a measurable, motivating habit for your whole team.
5 challenges
Step it up challenge
Log daily steps and race to the top of the team leaderboard.
For individuals & teams
Cardio challenge
Track calories burned across any workout and race to lead the weekly burn leaderboard.
For individuals & teams
Weight loss challenge
A 30-day program combining daily movement, nutrition logging, and mindful habits to drive steady, sustainable weight loss.
For individuals & teams
Cycle to work
Ditch the car and cycle to work — log every day you commute by bike and build a streak that adds up to real fitness gains.
For individuals
Push-up challenge
Log daily push-up sets and race to the top of the leaderboard — no equipment, just consistency and will.
For individuals & teams
Mental wellness challenges
Burnout builds quietly. These challenges build daily habits around breathing, positive self-talk, and healthy work boundaries — before stress becomes a crisis.
4 challenges
Breathing exercise
Log 10 minutes of yogic breathing every day — pranayama, box breathing, or any breathwork that grounds you.
For individuals & teams
Daily affirmations
Log one positive affirmation every day and build a streak of intentional self-talk that shifts mindset over time.
For individuals
Work life balance
Log daily boundaries — breaks, offline hours, and mindful transitions — to build a healthier rhythm between work and rest.
For individuals & teams
Mental health awareness
A 30-day program combining mood logging, mindfulness sessions, and daily check-ins to build a culture of mental wellbeing at work.
For individuals & teams
Nutrition & hydration challenges
What employees eat affects how they work. These challenges make better nutrition a daily habit, not a one-off awareness push.
4 challenges
Mindful eating challenge
Track mindful eating habits weekly — slow down, log every meal, and build the most intentional eating streak on your team.
For individuals & teams
No caffeine
Cut out caffeine for 30 days — log every clean day and track how your energy, sleep, and focus shift without it.
For individuals
Plant based diet
Switch to a plant-based diet for 30 days — log meals, track nutrition, and discover how whole foods transform your energy levels.
For individuals & teams
Sugar free
Go sugar-free for 30 days — log every clean day and track how cutting sugar transforms your energy, mood, and focus.
For individuals
Sleep & recovery challenges
Rest is a performance variable. These challenges help employees build the consistent sleep routines that energy and focus depend on.
4 challenges
Digital detox challenge
Set firm screen-time limits every day — log offline hours and track the difference it makes to focus, mood, and sleep.
For individuals & teams
Time to wind down
Build a consistent 30-minute wind-down routine every evening — dim lights, no work, and a calming activity to prime your body for deep sleep.
For individuals
Bed time crafts
Replace screen time with a calming creative habit before bed — journaling, sketching, or reading — and log your streak every night.
For teams
Sleep challenge
Hit a minimum of 7 hours of sleep every night for 30 days — log your sleep data daily, track your streak, and see how consistent rest transforms your energy, focus, and mood at work.
For individuals & teams
Team & social challenges
Nothing bonds a team like shared effort. From step competitions to group yoga and lunchtime walks, these challenges turn wellness into a team sport.
4 challenges
Team step challenge
Pit departments head-to-head in a step-count race and watch team spirit take over.
For teams
Team yoga
Log a shared yoga session every week as a team — build flexibility, reduce stress, and create a ritual your whole department looks forward to.
For individuals & teams
Lunch walk
Step away from the desk every lunch hour for a team walk — log daily steps, get fresh air, and turn the midday break into a wellness habit.
For individuals & teams
Charity walk
Teams rack up cumulative kilometres over 30 days, with every step GPS-tracked and logged toward a shared charity goal — compare team leaderboards and move with purpose.
For teams
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