Who hasn’t dreamed of climbing Mount Everest? If not for a few minor details — altitude sickness, -30 degree breezes, $45,000 fees, unstable ice, giant crevasses — most of us would have tried by now, right? Today you can challenge colleagues to use stairs climbed at home or work to …
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 …
When some companies promote fitness by giving money and gift cards as rewards, they miss out on the most powerful motivator known to humankind: competition! New research by the University of Pennsylvania shows that simply putting people in a competition can nearly double their workout levels. “Competitive groups frame relationships …
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 …
Even as progressive companies focus on promoting employee fitness to fight diabetes, obsesity and hypertension, a few cities and regions are thinking bigger. They hope that by creating community-wide programs, they’ll achieve broader, more lasting changes in community health. Research shows that people rarely make health and fitness decisions in isolation. Instead, …
Tired of collecting employee exercise logs, then entering the miles into a spreadsheet to track everyone’s progress? Automate the process by launching a virtual fitness challenge through Racery’s full-service online platform. As employees log daily exercise miles, their progress is automatically updated on a virtual route and leaderboard. And racers …
