It all started from a small notification popping up on my phone, prompting me to join the Samsung Health’s ‘Walk-a-thon India’ Challenge, and I accepted the challenge even though I was late to the party.
From January 30 to February 28, 2025, embark on a 30-day journey to complete 200,000 steps and discover the joy of walking together while competing with fellow participants. Powered by Samsung Health’s ‘Together’ feature, this challenge isn’t just about fitness—it’s about fostering a sense of community, healthy competition, and personal achievement.
Why Join the Challenge?
Walking isn’t just a workout; it’s a way to rejuvenate your mind and body. With the Walk-a-thon India challenge, Samsung Health makes tracking your steps and achieving fitness goals easy and rewarding. You’ll get access to a real-time leaderboard, allowing you to measure your progress against others and stay motivated.
Since I have been already doing regular exercise, I thought, this would be a perfect opportunity to measure my daily activity. Even though, I am not a big fan of digital gadgets ( three lucky winners to win Galaxy Watch Ultra), I liked the way they advertised - measure our progress against others and stay motivated - hitting people's sentiment works better than big prizes. I am self motivated but at times, it feels nice to see how we are doing against others. All it needed was to install the Samsung Health app and opt into the ‘Walk-a-thon India’ challenge in the ‘Together’ section, which was pretty simple. So even though the challenge started on January 30, I participated from 5th February, loosing six days, but since my goal was to truly measure myself, I was not worried, but I did not want to give up as well.
So for two weeks, I have been able to hit my step target, and got a badge, hitting an average in the top ten percent.
That includes a day on which I did not do any exercise but went to work in the garden.
So with nine more days remaining, most likely I will be able to hit the target, even though there is no bonus for achieving in less number of days.
But apart from those prizes, it truly feels amazing to see the statistics that motivates us - this is from today, screen shot taken as I am writing this post.
Can't we do this on #hive ? I am sure, we can, with DHF Fundings and a little niche marketing that would hit the sentiment of the biggest community of world, but we need a better app like this. I know, you will tell me we have 
The Samsung Health App keeps running forever, but the Actifit Android app shuts down, if I exist out of the app ( by clicking back button twice). Ideally, it should run in the background or ask the user, if they want to stop measuring their activity for the day. And interestingly the notification keeps showing up, even though the app is shut down.
I purposely made sure today to start the app and it was able to capture the steps , but the count was a little lower than the Samsung Health App, which is still fine.
The UI feels a little complex to me - just a personal opinion, I am not sure, why I need those many things there. Compare this to the Samsung Health App - it looks much elegant. So a lot of room to improve, but then there is an wild idea too - can we reach to our Korean friends to talk to Samsung and integrate that with #hive ?
Fitness is the most popular trend of current generation, and I am sure, we can gain a lot of traction, if we fit the global fitness community. Not everyone is trying to be Bryan Johnson, but people now realize the true benefit of staying fit - you go to hospital and give the control to them, and rest all may be history.
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