Yes, you need an iPhone or Android phone. If your gym has wifi, an iPod Touch, iPad, or Android tablet can also work for check-ins.
We can verify any fitness facility that is separate from your home or office. University gyms count, and so do yoga studios, swimming pools, tennis courts, martial arts studios, rock climbing gyms, outdoor tracks, or any standalone exercise facility.
If we don’t have your gym listed, simply add it the first time you check in there. Here’s a video showing how!
To workout at work or your home, take a look at GymPact Anywhere
Thanks to our new RunKeeper partnership, we can now count outdoor workouts! Simply connect your RunKeeper account to GymPact via our app [ video ] or our website [ video ]. Then track your runs, walks and bike rides with the RunKeeper app, and all workouts with at least 30 minutes of activity above 2 miles/hour will count toward your Pact!
More info on RunKeeper is here.
It can take up to 30 minutes for the RunKeeper workout to show up in your activity log, although for most people it syncs within 5 minutes. If it takes longer than that, check for an email in case your RunKeeper workout did not meet our requirements.
You can now workout at work or home with GymPact Anywhere, which uses your iPhone’s accelerometer to count any active type of exercise.
Yes, GymPact works in 75+ countries internationally! Our iPhone and Android apps are launched in these countries. If we don’t have your gym listed, simply add it the first time you check in there.
This is your commitment to get to the gym. You tell us how many days a week you want to exercise (minimum 1 day per week) and set the monetary stakes you’ll pay if you don’t go (minimum $5 per missed day).
Yes! We think flexibility is critical to fitness success. You can change your Pact for the upcoming week until Sunday at midnight in your time zone. Watch this video how.
Simply download our iPhone or Android app. When you’re at the gym, hit the Check In button and we’ll confirm via GPS that you’re there.
Yes. We have over 40,000 gyms in our database, but if your gym or studio is not listed, you can simply add it via our app on your first check in at the gym. We’ll approve any valid fitness center, other than a home or office gym. Here’s a video showing how!
No, GymPact is not affiliated with the gyms we list. If you have a GymPact related question, please contact us directly.
Your Pact is a weekly commitment running from Monday to Sunday. You can sign up for and change your Pact until Sunday night at midnight in your timezone. All Pacts starts on Monday and run until the next Sunday at midnight. We then send out attendance emails on Monday or Tuesday with your attendance and payments/rewards, and your Pact week starts again!
If you meet your Pact, you get a cash reward for each day committed, paid for by those who didn’t get to the gym! Rewards have generally been $0.30 to $0.40 per workout.
Once you reach $10, you can withdraw your GymPact rewards via Paypal on the app like this [ Video]. Attendance emails & app notifications will be sent out each week on Monday or Tuesday telling you how much $ you’ve earned.
Our users make it on average to 90% of the days they commit, but if you do happen to miss a day, we will charge the credit card we have on file for you according to your Pact amount and the number of days missed. In no other situation will you ever be charged.
To the GymPacters who made it to the gym! Every week, we will pay out cash rewards to those who met their Pact from the Stakes paid by people who didn’t quite make it. Rewards can be cashed out via Paypal. We think if you put real money on the line, you should get real rewards.
The goal of our program is to keep you motivated, fit and healthy, and we believe that taking occasional breaks is an important part of a healthy life. This video shows you how to schedule a break and how to cancel your break [ Video ].
If you ever run into medical issues, just ask your doctor or employer to email medical@gym-pact.com for their work address. You’ll be exempt from your Pact until you are better.
We're sorry to see you go, but if you want to delete your account, simply go to your app's Settings => Delete account. Please note that you cannot delete your account during an active Pact week. Your account will be deleted the following Monday.
Warning: Deleting your app DOES NOT delete your account.
The concept of GymPact comes from a Harvard behavioral economics class, and our pilot in Boston had a 90% success at getting people to the gym when they committed! We’ve been featured on the New York Times, Boston Globe, NPR, Techcrunch, etc.
TAll workouts (gym and RunKeeper) must be at least 30 min. to count towards your Pact. If your runs usually only last 25 minutes - take an extra 5 minute cool down walk to have it count towards your Pact!
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You can only link one RunKeeper account to your GymPact. We created these handy videos show to you how to integrate online and directly from your phone.
You definitely can, but only one workout per day can count towards your Pact.
For you late-nighters, please finish your workout before midnight on Sunday to count toward your Pact that week. Pact weeks run Monday through Sundays.