SZN KICKOFF

HiiiI! It's been a while. To refresh your memory (or to welcome you, if you're new), this bi-monthly newsletter brings you:

1. Crowdsourced wellness insights and convos

2. Amusing fitness challenges

3. Tips for running a fun workout community.

GOALszn is a gamified system of tracking workouts with a team of friends. Today, we're kicking off our Winter/Spring szn with groups hailing from all over North America. Want to learn more? Email Team Captain Evelyn!

This SZN is Feb 25 - May 26. Follow along as teams across the country track workouts, keep each other motivated, and crush challenges–TOGETHER.

CAPTAIN’S CORNER

We've been talking a lot about community over in the captain's chat.

Evelyn enjoys that GOALszn is a "kill two birds with one stone" situation—you're combining social interaction and community, which are important for well-being, with fitness, which is equally important.

The aim of every GOALszn group is to foster fun accountability, which is a good concept to bring into any area of your life, and a great way to make new connections. (Don't believe us? Check out this article on how starting a club can be the remedy for loneliness.)

For example, if you enjoy reading and wish you had more people to talk about specific books with, why not start a book club? (Both Nikki and Ev have done this and still run them!) Or maybe you love to write but don't do it as much as you want, so you start meeting up with fellow writers once a month to hold each other accountable.

The options are endless. We'd love to know: Have you started your own club/community? What results have you seen?

THE ROUNDUP: NOTHING BUT (Equitable) NET, SOME JAIL TIME, and JELENEW FINDS

If you're a b-ball fan, you know that the NBA All-Star Weekend just passed, featuring various activities like the dunk contest (check out Mac McClung Dunk Over Shaq). Traditionally criticized for lacking seriousness, this year was different. WNBA star Sabrina Lonescu and NBA star Steph Curry faced off in a historic 3-point contest, marking the first time male and female players competed together. Despite Curry's narrow win, it was a powerful moment advocating for women's basketball.

In other news, we appreciate creative workout efforts for GoalSZN. However, we do not want you to get arrested for it, like this climber did when he climbed the Las Vegas Sphere on February 7, ostensibly to raise funds for unhoused pregnant women. Despite raising over $30K, he caused quite a bit of damage to the structural circle—more than what's in any of our bank accounts! We'll stick to climbing at the gym for now.

Finally, we always want you to work out in style. Ev likes to keep tabs on emerging brands in the activewear category; check out Jelenew's latest collection and see if anything catches your eye!

THE CHALLENGE

@opengoalszn

First #wellnesschallenge for the new GOALszn: Try a new fruit or veggie and share your reaction. . #fitnesschallenge #challenge #balancedlifestyle

Since we've got a lot of newbies joining this szn, we thought it would be fun to try even more new things together! If you're in a current group, remember to let us know what you tried and use the #challenge hashtag to get credit 🍆 (sorry, we had to)

GOALszn: WHAT IS IT?

GOALszn is a workout accountability platform where friends form teams to track completed workouts over a set period. It operates on a gamified system, with teammates setting weekly workout goals. Missed workouts result in a monetary penalty. The system includes a group chat, selfie sharing for social proof, and streamlined workout counting. Learn more by emailing us!

LET’S CONNECT

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