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Matthew C
Welcome to Broccoli Island!
Those little mini trees are notorious for being pushed off plates of kids around the world, but broccoli is one of the healthiest vegetables around.
Get familiar with broccoli and meet a curious red fox while exploring Broccoli island. It will make you healthier.
Challenge details:
Starts – 1 June
Location – Broccoli Island
Step target – 200,000
Will you be taking a stroll through Broccoli Island challenge?
Share your progress with us below.
The Community Team
How to join in:
- Go to the Samsung Health APP on your mobile device.
- Sign in with your Samsung account.
- Complete your registration to Samsung Health.
- Select the “Together” tab to see current and upcoming challenges.
- Press “Join now” to join a challenge.
Rules:
- The global challenge starts on the first day of every month and ends on the last day of the month.
- Users can join or leave the global challenge at any time.
- Steps will be recorded from the time you join the global challenge and records will be removed once you leave the challenge.
- Steps can be uploaded up to 1 day after the end of the global challenge.
Are you more of a tinned spinach man, @IndiW? 😜😄
The challenges as they’re presented don’t appeal to me either. But then again, neither does anything that assumes genders are monolithic things (e.g. the kind of simplistic take on masculinity that says that real men eat red meat rather than lettuce). Nor does all of the stuff about stats and gains etc. which leave me cold, often frustrated, and feeling hopeless in achieving any of it. Throughout my life my body has stubbornly followed its own mysterious agenda regardless of actions taken with it.
As much as I wanted to do them, I sucked at sports and fitness stuff as a kid. I was painfully aware of that at the time, and so tended to shy away from it all after any initial failed attempts. About the only things I was good at in terms of physical activity were running around aimlessly or breaking stuff. 😂
The breakthrough for me at school was when I was 11 and my headteacher made me the referee for football matches during P.E. in order to get me to do something other than just stand there in the cold. It also presented a different angle: making me want to learn the rules of football – which was something I felt confident in doing, being the more bookish type – and which ultimately got me interested in watching, studying and playing the game (which I did a lot of in the years that followed).
All of which is a ramble to say that sometimes an alternative, less obvious approach not only can reach those where the more obvious, perhaps more traditional approaches haven't, but can also make those people feel included in the whole thing. And I’m guessing in that sometimes strange place of Samsung-land that’s where broccoli and butterflies are intended to come in…
Can’t say that I know much about Garmin’s health and fitness presentation, but I’d be interested in hearing more about your ideas of how you’d not only reach the folks like yourself but ones like me.
On the first day of the challenge, people have crossed 125K steps... does not seem right (possibly extremely fast cycling?)
