Comments on: How A 30-Day Pushup Challenge Made Us A Better Team

By: Andreas Heller

Andreas Heller — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:36:56 +0000

Hey Alex, very interesting post. If you want to do a new, maybe a bit more challenging 30 (work) day push up challenge feel free to step by https://www.andisfitnessblog.com/2019/03/the-30-day-push-up-challenge-office.html. Take care

By: mazharoddin

mazharoddin — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 17:25:22 +0000

Nice, but continuing these kind of challenges for long time is difficult, we started something similar to count footstep/distance we walk daily, but after few days we stopped tracking due to loss of the interest…may be this time we have to try hard 🙂

By: Siddharth Shekhawat

Siddharth Shekhawat — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 05:57:24 +0000

Nice article Alex…will definitely try it out in my team..will post the results soon 🙂

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 15:54:22 +0000

NICE – I’m gonna hit this one starting tomorrow!!

By: Kate H

Kate H — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 15:41:44 +0000

Another great post, Alex! Thanks for sharing. I liked the additional ideas for team challenges you mentioned at the end of your post. Working on a 100% distributed team, I can definitely relate to the need to bond with remote co-workers. This post already has our team pitching similar challenge ideas in our own #fitness Slack channel! Thanks for getting the conversation started 🙂

By: Nathan Thomas

Nathan Thomas — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 15:12:36 +0000

Great post as usual Alex! As someone who’s right now in the process of helping a fixed company evolve into a remote work team, I find these updates are very inspiring and useful. Were there any particularly books or resources you turned to when you made the decision to go remote with your team that helped you make the transition?

By: Jason R

Jason R — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 15:00:33 +0000

Very good idea thanks. Sure beats the Pack Of Haribo Challenge at my last place, the eventual sugar low was terrible for productivity, but the taste at the time was great!

By: ryan kulp

ryan kulp — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:53:25 +0000

Great post. Around 30 people from my coworking space do a pushup challenge too, daily at 3:30p on the roof (weather permitting).

We do it a little differently, just 3 minutes to do as many as you can.

In the first month (Nov 2015) we tracked everything in a Google Sheet, but then we built a simple app to visualize gains over time:
http://www.pushupmetrics.com

@Alex, create the Groove team by simply visiting http://groove.pushupmetrics.com/ and clicking ‘get started.’

Fun feature, you can get SMS alerts and even text in your daily count, which will auto log to your dashboard.

My dashboard looks like this:

By: Shannon Lewis

Shannon Lewis — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:51:44 +0000

We did a company road race a few years ago. Those who were local ran the same race (the pie run on Thanksgiving) those who were not local picked a race to do. In the following years we just bonded over the various races we were all doing. Last year we each did a half marathon!

By: Paul Campillo

Paul Campillo — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:47:28 +0000

Haha we did the same at Typeform. Then it morphed into roller blading by the beach and running. Beats the negative health effects of sitting all day.

By: Scott Britton

Scott Britton — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:44:39 +0000

#workdayworkout. love this. There’s two slack bots that actually teams can use for pushups here:

https://github.com/robinpowered/swolebot
http://blog.ctrl.la/how-slackbot-forced-us-to-work-out/