Open the Garmin Connect app.
From the Home page view, select Challenges at the bottom of the screen.
If you have edited the Home page tabs, you can find Challenges under More (bottom right).
Select Join the Weekly Steps Challenge.
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How Do Step Challenges Work in Garmin Connect?
If you have a device that tracks steps, you can participate in challenges with other users in your Garmin Connect™ account. Each week a new challenge begins during the night between Sunday midnight and Monday noon (your own time zone). As your steps add up throughout the week, you will see your rank with the other 7-12 participants in your challenge group.
How Do I Join a Step Challenge?
You can join a challenge from either Garmin Connect platform. Choose your option below to reveal instructions.
How Does Garmin Connect Determine Which Step Group I Will Be Placed in Each Week?
Weekly step challenges range from as little as 5K steps all the way up to 500K. Challenge levels increase at a rate of 5K steps per level up to 100K. From there the levels increase by 25K up to 500K. Moving up into a new step challenge will require you to:
Be in your current challenge for at least two weeks.
Be in excess of 10K steps for 2 weeks or 5K steps for 3 weeks above your established streak when averaging below 100K steps a week.
Average above the next level of challenge for at least three weeks when averaging above 100K steps a week.
Maintaining your daily step goal will keep you in your current step challenge. Not meeting your step challenge goal may result in dropping into a lower step challenge.
When Does a Step Challenge End?
The week’s challenge will end between Sunday midnight and Monday noon in your own time zone. You will have a grace period until Monday at noon to sync your activity tracker. If you do not sync in time, your steps for the previous challenge cannot be counted.
What Is the Highest Step Challenge Level Available in Garmin Connect?
The highest available Challenge level is 500,000 steps.
How Do I Leave a Step Challenge?
Choose your platform below for instructions to opt-out of a step challenge.
When you leave a step challenge, your name will be removed from any previously completed challenge as well.
Open the Garmin Connect app.
From the Home page view, select Challenges at the bottom of the screen.
If you have edited the Home page tabs, you can find Challenges under More (bottom right).
Select the current step challenge that you are in.
Select
(top right corner).Select Opt Out.
NOTE: If you opt back into the weekly step challenges, your first week back will be a new entry level step challenge rather than the previous level you were entered in before. The following week after your entry level challenge you'll be placed in an appropriate ranked challenge (e.g. 40K Step Challenge).
From a web browser, sign into your Garmin Connect account.
Select Challenges from the navigation bar on the left.
Select
from within the current step challenge.Select Leave Challenge.
NOTE: If you opt back into the weekly step challenges, your first week back will be a new entry level step challenge rather than the previous level you were entered in before. The following week after your entry level challenge you'll be placed in an appropriate ranked challenge (e.g. 40K Step Challenge).