- 1Add people
- 2Challenge setup
- 3Your challenge
Who’s in the challenge?
Add yourself and your friends. For each person, enter the number of steps they typically walk on a normal day - your best guess is fine.
Why step challenges fail (and how this fixes it)
Most friend step challenges die in week one for the same reason: the goal isn't fair. If everyone aims for the same daily target, the most active person coasts and the least active person gives up. Set the target too low and nobody's motivated. Too high and burnout wins.
A fair challenge stretches each person relative to their own baseline. Someone who normally walks 4,000 steps and someone who normally walks 12,000 steps can both commit to a meaningful 25% lift — and the competition becomes about effort and consistency, not who has a desk job.
How to pick a good baseline
If you know your typical daily steps from your phone or watch, use that. If you're estimating, think about a normal weekday — not your best day or your worst day. Most people fall somewhere between 3,000 and 10,000 steps per day:
- Mostly sedentary (desk job, drive everywhere): 2,000–4,000
- Light walking (errands, dog walks): 4,000–6,500
- Regularly active: 6,500–9,000
- On your feet for work or training daily: 9,000–14,000
Don't want to guess? Download Motion and your real baseline is set automatically from your phone or watch data — no estimates needed.
Take it past steps with Motion
This builder gives you a fair starting plan. Motion takes it the rest of the way:
- 📊Accurate, fair baselines from real data: No guessing at typical step counts. Motion uses everyone's actual phone or wearable data to set true baselines, so the handicap is genuinely fair.
- 📡See each other's steps live: Watch the leaderboard update throughout the day as everyone walks. No screenshots, no honor system, no end-of-day reckoning.
- 🏃All activities count: Runs, hikes, gym sessions, and yoga earn points too — so friends who don't love walking can still compete on their terms.
