Are we hard-wired to be lazy?

No wonder getting motivated to exercise is hard. New research suggests you’re not lazy, you’re just doing what eons of evolution want you to do: conserve energy. Thinking about exercising is literally harder for your brain, the researchers found.    

Relay teams will spice up your next charity or company virtual race

We launched Racery back in 2014 to help individuals motivate each other, even when they weren’t exercising in the same physical location. Each person’s daily mileage was logged on a virtual route, and her/his rank was marked on a leaderboard. Later, companies and charities hosting virtual races for their staffers …

Convert any activity into miles in an inclusive virtual step challenge

If your company wants to host a virtual fitness challenge that’s inclusive, we’re ready to help! While many fitness challenges focus only on runners or walkers, Racery recognizes all types of activities. The more people you can involve in your company’s challenge, the more motivation and chatter you’ll generate. A participant …

Virtual fitness challenge powered by Amazon’s Alexa

With virtual races becoming increasingly mainstream, we’ve decided it’s time to experiment with porting some of Racery’s virtual racing fun over to Alexa. Click the video below for a quick preview! Now companies can inspire fitness motivation by allowing staff to use Alexa to both verbally log miles and get …

Staffers get motivation in a virtual race for corporate fitness

What’s the biggest reason to join a virtual race? Racers say… MOTIVATION! We recently surveyed participants in a virtual race for nearly 350 employees of more than a dozen companies in the Greater Kansas City area. Asked how the 17-day race had impacted their exercise, almost everyone said the race …