Konkura makes sport and exercise more fun and motivational than ever before

Aug. 7, 2010 - PRLog -- Konkura.com, a new way to make sport and exercise more fun and engaging, has just launched.

Konkura is completely free and offers users the chance to join or create any sport, fitness or exercise challenge imaginable, making training and exercise more varied and motivational than ever before.

Whether you’re a serious athlete or just someone looking to get in a little better shape, there’s a challenge for you at Konkura.com.  And if you can’t find a challenge that’s just right, you can create your own challenge in moments, then invite your friends (or find new ones) with similar goals and interests to compete with, discuss training tips or just exchange friendly banter and mutual encouragement.

Konkura provides a free basis for gyms and health clubs to improve member engagement by setting challenges to motivate their members’ training.  Instead of relying on a paper-based “Challenge of the Month”, a wide range of challenges can be set up to suit all tastes, interests and fitness levels.  Gym instructors or personal trainers can create challenges based around particular classes or training goals.

Konkura allows such challenges to stretch across all health clubs in a chain, and can form the basis for great gym-challenge events that will promote the gym brand and generate excellent marketing and PR opportunities.

By encouraging members to join challenges, gyms will create communities with common interests, and make exercise more fun and varied, leading to improved member retention.  Creating great challenges also acts as a shop front to recruit new members.

Challenges on Konkura can involve any event that can be measured, e.g. via time, distance, repititions or other measures, and can include combinations of many different events.  

Simple, single-event challenges can be set up in moments, whilst Konkura’s advanced challenge engine allows users the flexibility to create challenges around multiple events and entire workouts, or include corrections for factors like weight and age.  Anyone can join in a challenge by posting their score together with comments, photos and videos.

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About Konkura: Konkura is a new, free website that lets anyone - from serious athletes to those just looking to get in a bit better shape - find or create any sport, exercise or fitness challenge imaginable, then compete against like-minded people around the world.

We aim to build a worldwide community of people who enjoy the extra fun and motivation that friendly rivalry and banter bring to keeping fit or training for sport.