Set a new goal each month for your friends, family or colleagues with Groups!
Up to 20 members can join your Group, and you can update the step goal at any time.
Step 1. Create Your Account
To join, create and verify an account with 10,000 Steps. You might already have one, if you’ve used 10,000 Steps in the past.
2. Create your Group
Head to the website to create your Group, and set your first Group Goal. You can add 10,000 Steps members using their email address, or create an invite to that up to 20 people can use to join your Group.
Step 3. Log or Sync Your Steps
You can use any step-counting device you have available. Some devices allow you to sync steps, or you can log them each day on the app or the website.
How You Can Use Groups
Groups and Group Challenges are free features available to all 10,000 Steps members.
Challenge your Group Any Month
With your Group, you can track daily, weekly, monthly and annual steps with up to 20 members. By setting a Group Goal, you can run a month-long step challenge on a simple leaderboard with a collective step goal. You can see your Group members ranked individually and check out your Group progress.
Add friends, family, or colleagues to bring them together on your Group Leaderboard. You can use your Group all year round or pick specific months to run a Group Challenge as a special event. Try one spring/summer and one autumn/winter event!
Note: Group Goal progress resets each month (AEST). Check out Friends for long term step tracking together, or Timeout Tournaments if you would like to set your own start and end date.
Keep Moving – Before, After, or Alongside Other Challenges
Groups can complement other 10,000 Steps Challenges. While you're in a Group, you can also:
- Join our Annual Leaderboard
- Join our Monthly Challenges
- Add Friends to your Friends Leaderboard
- Join larger Tournament or Health Challenge teams
Note: Groups you've created are not visible to nonmembers or to your workplace. Reach out to your workplace if you are hoping to register a Tournament Team.
Groups for Organisations and Coordinators
There are two key ways organisations can engage with the Groups feature on 10,000 Steps.
Promote Social Connection and Physical Activity
Great for small businesses, small teams, friends and family.
Groups are intended to bring together people and physical activity. Groups are great for:
- Running simple step challenges with up to 20 people.
- Offering a low-barrier way for people to stay active and connected.
- Supporting long-term physical activity habits with low administration needed.
Coordinators can create a Group with their staff or community, and run Group Challenges every month, or during particular months.
Group Challenges align with Monthly Challenge dates, and can be used in conjunction with promoting Monthly Challenges to offer simple internal competition with a bonus external prize opportunity (T&Cs apply).
Note: As a Coordinator, you’ll only see participants activity if you are the Group Leader or part of their Group on 10,000 Steps.
Support Small-Scale Engagement within Large-Scale Events
Groups can complement larger Tournament or Health Challenge teams.
As a Coordinator, you could encourage your organisation to use Groups when their Tournaments or Health Challenges have large scale Teams. For example, a local site might use a Group to track their local team, while competing within a larger department-wide or state-wide Tournament Team.
Within or between Tournaments and Health Challenges, Groups offer Coordinators:
- A way to supporting staff who prefer to be active with their close colleagues or friends, without needing to manage small Tournament teams.
- An option for continued physical activity between Coordinator-organised events.
- A way for your staff to engage in physical activity year-round without needing to run a Tournament or Health Challenge.
Note: Group members are not automatically linked to Tournaments, and do not replace the need to organise registration of Tournament Teams if they are promoted alongside Tournaments.
Resources for Organisations
Group and Group Challenge Guides
Check out how to create and manage Groups on the website.
View Your Group on the App
You'll need to create and manage your Group on the website, but you can check your Group's progress on the app.
What are 10,000 Steps Challenges?
Check out the different kinds of Challenges on 10,000 Steps, and how to participate.