Hi Everyone!
I wanted to provide a bit of additional information about the challenge utility for anyone who has been following along. The board challenge is great, but it makes it hard to keep track of who is doing what. The real solution is a challenge utility as part of your journal.
How will it work?
Anyone can post a challenge to the group at any time. Challenges are not limited to weight loss. You can challenge anyone for weight loss, distance (such as miles, or meters, etc) time (how many hours in a given period) calories burned, and body fat percentage. I'm sure there will be others as well but that is a great list to start.
Posting a challenge will involve
- naming your challenge
- selecting the challenge type
- selecting the start date
- selecting the end date
- the activity or activities that count for this challenge
- defining a personal reward (optional)
- adding any comments you may have about this challenge.
After you have posted your challenge, anyone will be able to go to the challenge board and JOIN any challenge that is available. You can select if you will allow participants to join your challenge after the start date.
From the challenge board, you will be able to keep track of how everyone is doing on a daily basis simply by going to the scoreboard associated with the your challenge. At the end of the challenge, the results are made official, and everyone can see how they did!
The entire process start to finish should be very entertaining and VERY motivating for all involved. I've been paying close attention to how everyone has been using the discussion board to post challenges and I'm sure you will all be very happy with the way the new utility works. This utility is in production right now and is set to launch by October 22nd.
