In an office environment, it is important to promote a team culture that encourages health and wellbeing.
However, in today’s day and age, where so much of the workplace exists online, employees can often sit physically inactive for long periods of time, which can be detrimental to mental and physical health.
So what should you do?
You can start by encouraging physical activity through group workout challenges.
Below, we’ve compiled a list of great workout challenge ideas that you can easily implement for your company.
Having easily measurable, achievable, and accountability centered daily workout challenges can be the first step to fostering your team’s unique fitness goals.
Some ideas you might consider for daily workout challenges:
While daily workout goals are a great start, monthly workout goals offer an opportunity to cultivate camaraderie, accomplishment, and wellbeing at your organization over the long term.
Here are some ideas for you to consider for monthly office workout challenges:
Another fun way to get the creative juices flowing is through group physical fitness classes. These can take many forms, but there are some favorites that never disappoint. Some popular activities include:
Each of these options offers a great break in the middle of the day that can spark creativity, joy, and productivity.
These activities create space for employees to make new friends and discover new mechanisms that can boost mental and physical health.
Another fun way to get your organization moving is to create a company sports team. This is a classic way to spark healthy competition and facilitate physical activity.
Some ideas you can consider adopting are:
With the ubiquity of smart devices, it is easier than ever to bring people together through exercise, online!
There are many countless apps, activity trackers, and message boards that offer ways to get your employees connected to healthy activities, in order to build connections both inside and outside of the office.
While these simple tips and existing resources are great for the beginning of your team’s wellbeing journey, you need to think strategically about partnering with organizations that can foster long term wellbeing support and mental health infrastructure for your organization.
Grokker takes all the work and stress out of fitness themed workplace challenges with its holistic and easy to implement approach.
And since different people have different abilities, interests, and goals, Grokker offers wellbeing challenge options for employees who aren’t able or willing to participate in traditional fitness activities — there’s something for everyone in this truly inclusive solution!
At Grokker, we like happy customers and we know that happy customers make happy employees. So meet your employees where they are and partner with Grokker today for your organization's wellbeing needs.
To find out more information about our holistic, cost-effective and easy to implement approach, check out our website and sign-up for a live demo today.