VFC Challenges Page

United in Movement Veteran Fitness Challenge Bridge 2 Sports

Challenge #14
WHAT ARE YOU THANKFUL FOR?

Did you know there is one simple thing that you can do to improve your physical health, mental state, sleep, and relationships? Expressing gratitude!

During this season of giving thanks let’s focus on all the good things in our lives.

This is a two-part challenge. VFC athletes can choose to do both parts or just one. Athletes who are active and syncing during the Challenge are automatically entered.

Challenge #1: Earn one point every day for posting what you are thankful for in the VFC Community Fitbit feed.

Challenge #2: stay focused on your fitness, keep moving, and push yourself to go just a little further every day.
Athletes can calculate their average daily steps during the first week of the challenge and then work to increase that average in the second week.

DURATION: November 17 – November 30

PRIZE

Challenge #13
VFC SPOOKY TRAIL

VFC athletes will all be working together to complete a trip to visit Haunted Towns and A-Mazing Corn Mazes all around the United States.

The Spooky Trail Challenge will be EVERYONE working together as one big VETERAN FITNESS CHALLENGE TEAM. Every step counts toward getting us around the country.

DURATION: October 18 – October 31

PRIZE

Challenge #12
UNITED IN MOVEMENT TEAM RACE

A special challenge as we celebrate the 1-year anniversary of the Bridge II Sports Veteran Fitness Challenge program.

In the spririt of camaraderie and working together TEAMS will compete in this steps challenge.

Every day of the challenge, each team’s daily steps will be collected and averaged. Those daily averages will be added to create an overall total score. The team with the highest step score wins.

DURATION: September 13 – September 26

PRIZE

Challenge #11
TAKE ON THE VFC DREAM TEAM

V-F-C! V-F-C! V-F-C!
We’ve got the RED, WHITE & BLUE spirit in full-force for the upcoming Veteran Fitness Challenge #11, August 25 to 31!

Participants will take on the most competitive members of the Bridge II Sports and VFC Coaching DREAM TEAM one at a time in a day-long steps or active minutes Fitbit challenge.

VFC Athletes— Can you take home the gold everyday?

DURATION: 1 week (August 25 – August 31)

PRIZE

One point for EACH DAY the VFC participant has more steps or active minutes than the ‘DREAM TEAM’ participant

PRIZES:
7 points
prize TBD
4 – 6 points
prize TBD
1 – 3 points
prize TBD

Challenge #10
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

Turn up the Chuck Berry ‘cause we are BACK IN THE USA for Veteran Fitness Challenge #10!

What better way to celebrate AMERICA than by visiting our beautiful and diverse national parks from coast to coast and north to south.

For 5 weeks, VFC athletes will be hiking a route taking them around the whole country ‘visiting’ 47 different national parks along the way.

There will be plenty to see on the hike with fun facts, photos and updates about the parks as we pass through posted in our VFC Community FitBit feed by Bridge II Sports staff. Athletes are encouraged to post photos of their own ‘real life’ visits and share memories of any of the parks on the list or give a shout-out when we travel through their state!

Athletes will work collectively to complete each of the 5 legs of the 15,000 mile trip- one leg starting each Saturday. We will be adding up cumulative DAILY MILES of ALL participants to make it to our next destination (NO TEAMS this time).

So get out there and start moving…and make sure to sync your Fitbit so EVERY MILE COUNTS.

DURATION: 5 weeks (June 12 – July 16)

PRIZE

EVERYBODY that participates is going to get an awesome NEW VFC LOGO DESIGN prize — and we mean AWESOME!

And for the top 10 female and top 10 male athletes with the most individual cumulative miles at the end of the hike we’ll send you an extra something special.

Challenge #9
JOURNEY THROUGH ASIA

This is a TEAM CHALLENGE – stay connected and motivated with your teammates in the ‘Your Team’ section of the FitBit app. You’ll be able to chat and message with your teammates during this challenge.

GOAL: We trekked South America back in November- let’s head around the world and see the sights in ASIA!
This is a Fitbit challenge that will unlock new maps, landmarks, and cool stuff along the way.

Here is how steps are calculated:

Every day of the challenge, each team’s daily steps will be collected and averaged. Those daily averages will be added to create an overall total score. Those who haven’t contributed any steps in a given day will not be included in their team’s average for that day.
The team with the highest TOTAL step score wins.
(TOTAL step score = team average day 1 + team average day 2 +….. + team average day 30)

Keep on moving all challenge long!

DURATION: 30 days (May 1 – May 30)

RESULTS

Way to go
Team ALPHA ALOHAS for leading the pack across Asia!

PRIZE

Challenge #8
FIT WITH PHOTOS 2.0

We loved seeing your faces so much, we thought we’d do it again!

This is INDIVIDUAL CHALLENGE.

GOAL: Earn up to 2 points EVERY day
1 point for getting over 8,000 steps
and another 1 point for posting a photo of YOU getting your steps in the VFC Fitbit Community Feed

DURATION: 14 days (April 12 – 25)

RESULTS

28 Points – 6 participants
24-27 Points – 7 Participants
20-23 Points – 5 Participants
10 – 19 Points – 9 Paticipants

PRIZE

PRIZES:
28 points
VGSE Hat
24-27 points
Water Bottle
20-23 points
T-Shirt

…and if you earn 10 points
with any combination of
photos or 8,000+ steps
you’ll earn a
cooling towel!

Challenge #7
TEAM SLEEP CHALLENGE

Being healthy isn’t all about getting those steps in.
In March VFC athletes are challenged to increase their healthy rest.

Goal: Improve sleep by 20 minutes over 3 weeks

This is a TEAM Challenge

Week 1 we will gather Team Time Asleep Data for each team to establish a baseline.

Week 2 will be ‘Practice’ week’ to see if/how athletes can improve their Team Time Asleep totals from the week before.

Week 3 This is “Go Week’ – “Go to sleep’ that is! We will gather Team Time Asleep totals for the week to see how your team ranks in the TEAM Sleep Challenge.

Duration: March 7 – 27

RESULTS

Congratulations to
Team ULTIMATE TREKKERS increasing their team sleep time by 20 minutes
AND
DA TEAM with an increase of 10 minutes

Veteran Fitness Challenge Number 7 Catch Those Zzzz Team Sleep Challenge

PRIZE

Prizes will be award to the TEAM that records:

20 minutes or more Time Asleep increase
15-19 minutes Time Asleep increase
10-14 minutes Time Asleep increase

Challenge #6
WHO’S THE BOSS?

Our volunteer VFC Team Coaches + Kathy & Katharine are challenging our VFC Athletes to a head-to-head challenge.
Every day for a week VFC athletes will square off against a different ‘Boss’ to see if they can beat the boss in total steps or active minutes (depending on the day’s challenge).

GOAL:
A VFC athlete earn one point for EACH DAY that he/she beats the boss

There is potential to earn 7 points during the challenge

DURATION: 7 days (February 14-20)

How-To Instructions: Who’s The Boss? in Fitbit app

RESULTS

February 14 – 27 Participants beat ‘The Logistician’ @KatieD
February 15 – 13 Participants beat ‘The Deenster’ @ChaseD
February 16 – 20 Participants beat ‘Ace’ @ChrisF
February 17 – 60 Participants beat ‘The Mama Bear’ @Lori

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

PRIZE

One point for each day the VFC participant beats the ‘boss’ steps or active minutes

PRIZES:
7 points
Water Bottle
4 – 6 points
VGSE Hat
1 – 3 points
Challenge Coin

Challenge #5
FIT WITH PHOTOS

Start the new year off right AND show everybody how it’s done with this INDIVIDUAL CHALLENGE.

GOAL: Earn up to 2 points EVERY day
1 point for getting over 8,000 steps
and another 1 point for posting a photo of YOU getting your steps in the VFC Fitbit Community Feed

There is potential to earn 28 points during the challenge

DURATION: 14 days (January 4 – 17)

RESULTS

28 Points – 8 participants
24-27 Points – 7 Participants
20-23 Points – 3 Participants
10 – 19 Points – 13 Paticipants

PRIZE

PRIZES:
28 points
BIIS Blue/Orange Hat and bracelet
24-27 points
Water Bottle
20-23 points
Cooling Towel

…and if you earn 10 points
with any combination of
photos or 8,000+ steps
you’ll earn a
Participation MYSTERY PRIZE!

Challenge #4
ACTIVE TEAM MINUTES

This is a TEAM CHALLENGE – stay connected and motivated with your teammates in the ‘Your Team’ section of the FitBit app.

GOAL: Let’s fight these shorter, colder December days by staying active! Get as many active minutes as you can to add to your team’s grand total.

DURATION: 14 days (December 7 – 20)

RESULTS

Total TEAM Active Minutes:
Team Bravo 13,699 (228 hours 19 min)
DA Team 9,287 (154 hours 47 min)
Team Charlie 6,957 (115 hours 57 min)
Alpha Alohas 6,557 (109 hours 17 min)
Ultimate Trekkers 6,447 (107 hours 27 min)
BIIS Staff 2,310 (38 hours 30 min)

PRIZE

PRIZES:
1st place team-
Water bottle
2nd place team-
VSD T-shirt
3rd place team-
Spartan T-shirt
4th place team-
VGSE Challenge Coin
5th place team-
Cooling towel

Challenge #3
TREK ACROSS SOUTH AMERICA

This is a TEAM CHALLENGE – stay connected and motivated with your teammates in the ‘Your Team’ section of the FitBit app.

GOAL: While the weather is cooling down here, things are heating up in South America!
Let’s take a vacation!
This is a Fitbit challenge that will unlock new maps, landmarks, and cool stuff along the way.

Here is how steps are calculated:

Keep on moving all challenge long!

DURATION: 24 days (November 1- 24)

RESULTS

Congrats to ALL teams for trekking 24 days strong!

Total of average daily steps:
DA Team (Delta) 287,686
Team Bravo 268,653
Team Charlie 254,153
Alpha Alohas 216,691
Ultimate Trekkers (Echo) 200,118
BIIS Staff 192,972

graphic of cartoon toucan. text reads: Welcome to Trek Across South America November 1 to 24

PRIZE

PRIZES:
1st place team- BIIS Hats & Waterbottles
2nd place team- BIIS Hats

In addition to the Overall Challenge prizes… we will be giving away a mystery “surPrize” to the top participant from each team during each of the 3 full weeks of the Challenge!
Nov 1-7
Nov 8-14
Nov 15-21

Challenge #2
THE ROAD TO SLEEPY HOLLOW

We are ALL working together on this one (no teams).
GOAL: In the spooky spirit of the season, our goal is to get from
Bridge II Sports (Durham, NC) to Sleepy Hollow, NY.
Distance: 544 miles

DURATION: 5 DAYS (October 19 – 23)

Progress will be posted once a day in the Fitbit VFC Community feed
along with some history of this classic American ghost tale and some
‘sight-seeing’ stops along the way.

RESULTS

We made it to Sleepy Hollow AND back in less than a week!
That was over 3.5 MILLION steps virtually covering 1608 MILES!
Way to go everybody!!

Illustration of headless horseman riding on back of horse holding pumpkin head. Text reads Veteran Fitness Challenge #2 The Road to Sleepy Hollow. Goal: 544 miles October 19-23 Bridge 2 Sports

PRIZE

PRIZE: All participants will receive a BIIS sticker.
Top 10 contributors will receive a VGSE water bottle.

Challenge #1
BEAT BRIDGE II SPORTS

All TEAMS compete to see if they can beat
Bridge II Sports Staff Team in
AVERAGE ACTIVE MINUTES

DURATION: 10 DAYS (September 21 – 30)

PRIZE: Members of All Teams that beat BIIS Team
with be sent a prize

RESULTS

Average Active Minutes from 9/21 to 9/30:
ALPHA 839
BRAVO 578
DELTA 575
BIIS STAFF 367
ECHO 328
CHARLIE 245

PRIZE

Hat may be Blue or Gray

RESOURCES AND TROUBLESHOOTING

Fitbit® Getting Started Guide (PDF)
Fitbit® Support:
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- help.fitbit.com/cwsupport