Activity shown in the product preview: Workflow triggered, Task complete, 12 reactions, Credits redeemed.

Fitness challenges

Gamify wellness
Watch participation triple

Native tracking on every wearable. Pre-built and team challenges. Habit-building reminders. One live dashboard that closes the loop.

Empuls fitness challenges, live leaderboard, synced trackers, and rewards

TRUSTED BY LEADING BRANDS

24/7 AI
AB InBev
AT&T
Acko
Angel One
CGI
DAMAC
Evolent Health
First American
Fractal
GCash
Infosys
InMobi
Mahindra
Rakuten
Riyadh Air
SanDisk
Tesco
Western Digital
24/7 AI
AB InBev
AT&T
Acko
Angel One
CGI
DAMAC
Evolent Health
First American
Fractal
GCash
Infosys
InMobi
Mahindra
Rakuten
Riyadh Air
SanDisk
Tesco
Western Digital
24/7 AI
AB InBev
AT&T
Acko
Angel One
CGI
DAMAC
Evolent Health
First American
Fractal
GCash
Infosys
InMobi
Mahindra
Rakuten
Riyadh Air
SanDisk
Tesco
Western Digital

How it works

Pick a template. Set the goal. Click publish.

Each challenge runs on data flowing in from the wearables employees already own. No manual logging. Most customers run their first challenge within a week of go-live.

Connect

Employees link Apple Health, Google Fit, or any major wearable in 30 seconds.

Employee connecting a wearable to Empuls in seconds

Pick

Admin picks a challenge template, Stepathon, Sleep Streak, Hydration, or Custom.

Choosing a challenge template in the admin console

Publish

Scope the cohort, attach a reward budget, click publish. Empuls handles invites and tracking.

Publishing a challenge with cohort and reward budget set

Cheer

Live leaderboard, streak badges, cheer reactions, and automatic reward payout.

Live challenge leaderboard with streaks, cheers, and rewards

Why gamified programs win

60%+

Sustained participation

In well-designed gamified programs vs ~32% in traditional ones.

+40%

Engagement uplift

Average lift in wellness engagement after adding challenges.

3×

Benefit pickup

Employees engage with benefits 3× more when framed as challenges.

~70%

Organizational adoption

Of global organizations now plan to use gamification.

Health tracking

Every wearable. Every phone. Native

No new device. No new subscription. Smartphone-only employees participate just as fully as ring-and-watch power users.

  • Apple Health, Google Fit, Fitbit, Garmin, Oura, Whoop, and more.
  • Connect in 30 seconds via a guided OAuth flow.
  • Activity, workouts, heart, sleep, and mind, all pulled natively.

Every integration is positioned as a native Empuls capability. Body data is employee-opted only.

Empuls health tracking, wearables and phones syncing natively into one platform
Pre-built fitness challenge templates, Stepathon, Workout Warrior, and custom habits
Pre-built challenges

Customize challenges that cover every habit

Start from a standard format like Stepathon, Workout Warrior, or Weekend Run, or build your own. Pick a template, scope the cohort and rewards, publish, and let auto-payout handle the rest.

  • Stepathon, Workout Warrior, Weekend Run, and custom habits
  • Tiered milestone rewards with automatic payout
  • Pick template, scope cohort, publish, in minutes
Auto-payout rewards

Finish the challenge, a reward lands where employees already work

Tie any milestone to an automated reward, a points credit, a branded gift card, or a wellness-store credit. Empuls fires the trigger the second a goal is hit and posts the celebration in Slack or Teams.

  • Triggers per challenge: distance, streak, leaderboard rank, completion
  • Auto-redeem to gift cards, wellness store, points wallet, or charity
  • Celebrations land in Slack and Teams, colleagues see and cheer
  • Zero manual processing for HR after the challenge is published
Empuls fitness challenge auto-payout, Start Challenge to Finish trigger flow with a Slack milestone celebration and a Planet Fitness gift card reward
Empuls habit reminders, scheduled nudges timed to working hours, shown on a phone lock-screen mock
Reminders

Small nudges, on schedule, with no app fatigue

Configurable per cohort, muteable per employee, timed to working hours and local time zones. Every interaction feeds the wellness score.

  • Configurable per cohort, muteable per employee
  • Categories: water, stretch, breath, walk, mood, sleep
  • Timed to working hours and local time zones
  • Every reminder interaction feeds the wellness score

Works with

Every wearable, app, and channel employees already use

Wearables and apps on the device side. HRMS, payroll, and collaboration tools on the admin side.

Apple Health
Fitbit
Garmin
Strava
Peloton
Apple Health
Fitbit
Garmin
Strava
Peloton
Samsung Health
Wear OS
SAP
ADP
Samsung Health
Wear OS
SAP
ADP
FAQs

Frequently asked questions

A corporate fitness challenge is a time-bounded, goal-based program, a Stepathon, sleep streak, or hydration drive, that uses gamification to convert wellness benefits into daily habits. It sits inside a wellness program but does the engagement-and-adoption work the program itself cannot.