Walker Tracker Blog
3 Tips for High Engagement in Your Wellness Program
We love hearing this. Especially from an organization who has done a tremendous job offering a robust set of tools and support to their members in the health and wellness department. When Walker Tracker Customer Success Manager Graham caught up with GatorCare this...
Introducing Emily Guidos, caring Customer Experience Manager.
Each day, Emily makes it a priority to help customers reach their goals. She leads a Customer Success team of four and provides her team with the resources they need to help their customers. Together, they empower individuals to be wellness champions for their...
Top New Year’s Resolutions and How to Track Them
New year’s resolutions are great…ish. Creating a goal to work toward? YES, terrific idea. Not having a way to track your progress toward that goal? Let’s change that. The past few years have made health goals extra challenging to achieve. Sickness, lockdowns,...
Best Fitness Trackers in 2022
Data is golden. It can tell you when your sleeping habits change and how many steps you average in a day. Data helps you set and track goals on your fitness journey. The big question is: how do you obtain and store the data you need? Wearable fitness trackers are THE...
Free Step Challenges on Walker Tracker’s Community Site
Walker Tracker Community Site Looking for a free step challenge app? Read on for a guide on how to track steps and challenge friends on our free community site! Walker Tracker wants to support you in building a happier, healhier life. We have step challenge options...
Guide: Convert Activities to Steps
Utilizing the Activity to Steps Converter If you like to keep track of your daily activity levels, tracking your steps is a key component. It feels especially crucial when you’re participating in a step challenge. But what do you do if you forget your tracking device...
New: In-app Challenge Creation!
In-app challenge creation launched for our Walker Tracker iOS and Android apps.
Step Challenge Barriers for Students and Faculty
Step Challenges in Higher Education Breaking down barriers to engagement among students & faculty.Workplace wellness has innumerable benefits. It improves health behaviors and productivity, decreases health risks, and builds and sustains morale. One engaging way...
Challenges That Combat Stress and Bring The Fun
It’s been a long and trying two years. As we round out 2021 and look with hope towards 2022 – I’m eager to share some insights and optimism from the Walker Tracker team! In March of 2020 we shut down Walker Tracker’s physical office in Portland, OR, and began working...
Using Digital Wellness to Communicate Benefits Information
Benefits Communications TipsDoes open enrollment have you down? Confused? We had a similar experience and used our own software to help remedy the situation. Here's what we can share! Open enrollment got you down? Benefits Engagement and Digital Wellness...
What is a Featured Challenge?
When considering an annual wellness program versus a single step challenge, we frequently cover the concept of Featured Challenges. TL;DR - Featured Challenges are "marquee" challenges that are aimed at getting everyone in your program to join and engage. Standard...
Wellness and Integrative Health at University of Utah
Step Challenges for Faculty Wellness 40,000 employees, Two HR departments, and a Successful Wellness Program at University of Utah Coaching world class athletes is a dream come true for some people. It was reality for Britta Trepp. “I moved to Utah to train Olympic...
Miles4Merak – Meet Susan Staten
Meet Susan Staten Susan Staten had never met Merak Melikian and worked in another building from the challenge’s organizers. Still, the week-long challenge ended up being the catalyst for a major life change. “I hated walking,” Susan said, “I used to think I was...
Miles4Merak: A Step Challenge Fundraiser
About Merak Melikian & Miles4Merak Merak Melikian was a sophomore at University of San Francisco when a series of health events kept sending him to the hospital. Only age 20, his anemic state was hard to diagnose. After weeks of seeking treatment, he and his...
Stride Story – Complete
The Stride Story Walker Tracker is rolling out a reinvented version of it’s industry-acclaimed wellness software. After 15+ years of development, we’ve learned a lot and built a lot. We’ve applied these years of development into an experience that we call “Stride.”...
Returning to Work or Staying Remote?
The ever-evolving workplaceRemote work has become a standard for many companies. New hybrid options are creating options for some teams to work together and others to stay remote - or for employees to share time between remote and in-office. Many businesses are eyeing...