COUNT HEARTS
…strengthens everyday community
and makes health visible where it matters most.
Bring people together. Strengthen your organisation.
What is Count hearts?
Count Hearts is about making health simple, social, and motivating in a busy everyday work life. Most employees actually want to be more physically active – but a busy workday often gets in the way. That’s why we’ve made it easy and simple to succeed together.
Count Hearts is inclusive. Everyone can participate – even those who usually stay on the sidelines. This creates stronger connections and real results.
With Count Hearts, your employees gain the energy and sense of community that make physical activity an easy and natural choice in everyday life. When employees gain more energy and build stronger relationships, it is also reflected in the organisation’s results.
How does Count Hearts work ?
Count Hearts is a data-driven platform that converts heart rate into hearts, making physical activity visible and meaningful – both for employees and for the organisation.
One minute in the health-enhancing heart rate zone = one heart.
The goal is 150 hearts per week, in line with the recommendations from WHO and national health authorities.
Count Hearts activates people across the entire organisation – not just those who are already active. Through motivating gamification, movement becomes something people do together across teams, functions, seniority levels, and ages.
Why do companies choose Count Hearts?
Because community, health, and the bottom line are closely connected.
58.6% of Danes do not meet the recommendations for physical activity – and it affects energy, focus, and job satisfaction every single day.
Companies choose Count Hearts when they want more than good intentions – and actually want to create movement in everyday life. When they want to strengthen community in practice, improve employees physically and mentally, focus on prevention rather than repair, and engage far more than the usual 20%, who are already active.
In short: when they want to create a healthy culture that truly moves people and creates better results for everyone.
Together with Google, we have been selected as a partner for the world’s largest organization for heart associations, the World Heart Federation. We are very proud of this.
COUNT HEARTS is a healthy investment
Count Hearts is not only an investment from the heart, but also a wise investment when you look at the bottom line. Because in addition to increased customer satisfaction, numerous studies show that active employees pay off:
Up to
less sick leave
Up to
less stress
Up to
higher productivity
Count Hearts – perhaps your wisest investment ever
Let us help you get started
Let us help you find out if Count Hearts can help your business too.
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COUNT HEARTS translates your heart rate into hearts
The WHO recommendation is the foundation of Count Hearts. Simply put, for every minute you are active at a moderate heart rate, you get one heart. It’s easy to understand and communicate. Since heart rate is relative, everyone can participate regardless of individual level. Every activity counts.
Here’s how you do it
Download the app and connect your Garmin, Apple Watch or IQNITER’s heart rate monitor – and you’re in business!
When you compete team against team, you see each team’s status anonymously in the app.
Download
Create profile
Connect your device
Count hearts
Motivating competition that boosts team spirit
Count Hearts team competitions create well-being and motivate your employees to get moving. It’s not about the individual reaching the most hearts, but about everyone on the team reaching above the WHO recommendation. Teams can be made across departments or be departments against each other. We recommend running the competition over four weeks and repeating it four times a year.
In addition, Count Hearts can be used to create fundraisers for charity. Since Count Hearts is based on heart rate, anyone can participate in collecting hearts, which are then converted into a donation.
Let us help you get started
Let us help you find out how Count Hearts can help your business too.
Sign up here and we’ll call you for a no-obligation chat.
What employees say about COUNT HEARTS
“It’s super cool that IQNITER can now connect to my Garmin watch? I can easily count hearts on my runs too.“
Thomas
“Getting enough hearts – and preferably more! It’s really, really fun and great success for a “non-sports nerd” like me who just wants to be healthy.“
Kristiane
“I use Count Hearts to exercise with my family. Despite the great physical distance, we can still help each other get into our training clothes and motivate each other.“
Pernille
“My active boys have some inactive parents:-) I’ve just been thinking about what I could start that we can be together/shared. Count Hearts fell right into the turban.“
Anne
“It’s great because you can battle from a distance – and it’s comparable whether you’re cycling, walking, running or strength training, which means that everyone can participate.”
Ida
“It’s fun to compete for heart rate because it’s fair that the one who does the most wins.”
Pernille L
“Count Hearts has made me walk more often, with more intensity and for longer. I have started running after not running for 20 years. My focus has changed effortlessly, the change hasn’t required anything extra or special from me, which such a habit change usually does. It’s easy to constantly increase your efforts and create a better result – it gives you a sense of self-satisfaction. It’s been a natural and fun habit change.”
Peter
“It created good dialog between colleagues!”
Britt
“It has been a good concept. You become more aware of whether you should take the stairs instead of the elevator, for example, even if you don’t track. You become aware that it’s relatively “small” things you can do and that you do anyway in your everyday life that can make a difference – or relatively “small” changes you can make, such as taking the dog for a walk at a brisk pace instead of a stroll.”
Niels
Physical activity makes a difference in life
We used to count steps. Today we know that we need to get our heart rate up too. WHO recommends 150 minutes of activity at moderate intensity per week. Then we live longer and better as the risk of 32 different diseases, including cancer, diabetes 2 and depression, decreases.
With the COUNT HEARTS concept, around 80% of participants reach their goal week after week!
Live longer and better
Disease-free years
Serious illness
Disease-free years
Serious illness
Source: Bente Klarlund Pedersen, ‘Younger with the years’, Gyldendal 2020.
What companies say about COUNT HEARTS
“This has been a fantastic five-week program where we have gathered and motivated the employees to be active. It has created a sense of unity across all departments. The teams were mixed from all our departments and it has brought us even closer to each other on a different level in terms of community and unity. It has brought a bigger smile and the management has already announced the next competition.”
Tomas H. Lundgaard
Key Account Manager, Garmin
“It just works and I get nothing but positive feedback about a good, fun and versatile program at the group training sessions. I also hear that one employee has lost over 10 kg and another just feels much better in his body and has more energy.”
Birgitte Lund
HR Manager, Wärtsilä Lyngsø Marine
“When it comes to the physical, we have tried many different things, from “we cycle to work” to group yoga. It has always been a challenge to find a health initiative that includes everyone. That’s why we decided to go into Count Hearts, where everyone can participate, as the physical activities can be anything from strength training in the center to vacuuming at home. The fact that everyone can participate on an equal level was one of the main reasons why we chose to work with IQNITER.”
Steen Kampmann Johansen
HR Manager, BKI FOODS
