How to hit your fitness goals during the Vitality Open

Getting active improves your health in many different ways. Regular exercise is good for your heart, improves sleep and reduces stress, anxiety and depression. It also lowers your blood pressure, cholesterol and reduces your risk of Type 2 diabetes - making you healthier and happier.

For the next 10 weeks, all South Africans are invited to join the Vitality Open and get rewarded for getting active. This makes it a great opportunity to experience for yourself just how rewarding an active lifestyle can be. Give it a shot - you have nothing to lose and so much to gain.

Ways to achieve your fitness goals - and help non-members get theirs

To get started, download the latest version of the Discovery app and join the Vitality Open. To get rewarded, you need to achieve your weekly fitness goals by completing at least three fitness days in a goal week.

To complete a fitness day, you can:

1. Track 10 000+ steps in a day using your smartphone
2. Visit the gym if you're an existing Planet Fitness or Virgin Active member
3. Complete a parkrun or myrun

For Vitality to be able to reward you for getting active, we need access to your health data. To track steps, you will need to link either your Samsung Health app or the iOS Health app to the Discovery app.

To track gym workouts, you will need to link your gym membership to Vitality. You will also need to link your parkrun or myrun profiles to Vitality. Follow the prompts during registration to ensure that all your fitness days are logged so you can get rewarded.

Remember, the Vitality Open goal week runs from Saturday morning to midnight on Friday, so they can complete one fitness day per day and need a minimum of three fitness days in a goal week to achieve their fitness goal.

Get guaranteed rewards on the gameboard

By achieving your goals, everyone can earn a play on the Vitality Open gameboard. Every #RewardsWednesday, you can use your play to pick a tile for each play to reveal guaranteed Vitality reward points.

You can spend these points on a range of exciting rewards like coffees, smoothies and charity donations or save them up to use on higher-value rewards like online shopping, tech accessories and dream holidays. And if you have the lucky touch, you can even reveal diamonds and instant prizes. So lace up those running shoes and get moving to get rewarded!