PulseUp Challenges

A Challenge on PulseUp is a public, time-boxed goal running between a start and end date. Every challenge is shared community-wide — the app shows how many athletes are participating — while each athlete tracks their own individual progress toward the same goal.

When a challenge is completed, the athlete earns a bonus XP reward and a badge tied to that challenge.

PulseUp currently runs four kinds of challenges: completing workouts (tracked across distinct training days), a consecutive-day activity streak, total cardio minutes, and total distance covered (shown in kilometers).

Streak-based challenges are joined automatically — everyone is participating from the start. The other types (workout-based, cardio-time-based, and distance-based) require an athlete to explicitly join before their progress starts counting.

As an athlete trains, their progress toward the challenge's goal updates automatically from their logged workouts and cardio sessions — there's no separate step to "log" progress toward a challenge.

Any athlete on PulseUp. Challenges are public and open to the whole community, not limited to a Crew or a coach's roster — anyone can see how many people are participating and join in.

Challenges run on top of the same workout and cardio tracking every athlete already uses — progress comes directly from real logged sessions, and completing a challenge feeds into the same XP and achievement system as the rest of PulseUp.