The Fitness Challenge Handbook

Final Thoughts

There are very few true “win-win” situations in life much less in business. Wellness programs in general and fitness challenges specifically are among the few exceptions. When your employees get rewarded while achieving the greater reward of good health and your organization both saves money and becomes a better place to work, fitness challenges really are a no-brainer.

Throughout this handbook, we have explored ways to design and manage an employee fitness challenge that will be engaging and rewarding for the participant, controllable for the administrator and profitable for the enterprise. While there are no absolute right and wrong techniques when putting a fitness challenge together, hopefully this guide offered you some new ideas with which to experiment. After a few tries, you will have a program worked out that will be customized to your workers, organization and culture.

This handbook is the culmination of many years of running and studying fitness competitions with my clients. I hope it helps with your next fitness challenge and would very much appreciate any feedback you are willing to provide.