Social distancing, the less chance to move and, last but not least, the recent Christmas holidays, have certainly not benefited the figure of most of us. However, he comes to help us Samsung than with the latest functionality of Samsung Health want to try make us lose weight and keep fit in company.
The new addition is called Group Challenge and, as can be easily guessed, will soon allow challenge up to 9 people (even not registered with Samsung Health) to see who can move farther and faster. In order to create a new challenge just go to the Together of Samsung Health and determine who among the participants reaches a certain number of steps in a given amount of time.
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Group Challenge is the latest expansion of Samsung Health Challenge features, which you can access via the Together tab at the bottom of the Samsung Health app. There is Global Challenge, the most popular type of challenge, which allows you to enter monthly step count competitions against all Samsung Health users around the world. Samsung also introduced the 1: 1 Challenge, which allows you to invite one of your close friends or family to work with you to reach your step counting goals. And now, the 1: 1 Challenge has evolved into a Group Challenge. While you still have the option to create a one-on-one competition, you can now invite 1 to 9 of your friends so you can train and keep each other motivated to reach your fitness goals, even when you are away. . You can even create multiple group challenges so you can compete with family, friends and colleagues at the same time.
Samsung then provided some data regarding its platform dedicated to the world of fitness. In short, here is a brief summary:
- Since launching in 2012 as a simple fitness tracker, Samsung Health has evolved and become a complete platform for health, wellness and fitness thanks to the addition of numerous features.
- In 2020 alone, over 200 million people around the world used Samsung Health.
- In the past 12 months, Samsung Health users have burned about 3 billion calories and walked 78 trillion steps together; the equivalent of the Earth – Sun journey traveled 200 times.
- Italy is the 6th country in terms of number of steps taken in 2020. In the first position we find Germany, second Korea, third Spain.
The new Group Challenge feature will be made available starting January 12th. Below are the links to download the Android and iOS app.
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