I work at a big corporation. (top 20 Fortune 500). They have announced for October and November that there is a Wellness contest. What it means is, if you walk 7500 steps a day 4 days a week or equivalent, and also record a total of 240,000 steps for the 2 months, you get a $50 gift card. You can use any pedometer or app that you want to count steps. If you do other exercises, there are conversions; no conversion for sex, boohoo. An hour on an elliptical machine is worth maybe 8000 (I forget exactly.)
I am naturally competitive, though less so as I get older. I can't stand any contest with "the honor system" because people are hopeless cheats. Now, there is no announced prize for the winner. It's really up to the individual to get their gift card, though they can lie about that as well. One man I know of put in his 7500 steps a day. The guy is so obese he gets winded walking to the elevator.
All that said, someone called "eva" on the wellness website claims to be doing 90,000 steps a day. If it was walking, you're talking 45 miles a day. Or maybe she runs a marathon each day. She is just the worst offender. The top 10 all are doing 35,000 steps a day, according to them. That's like a 6 hour workout at the gym.
Does this type of behavior irritate anyone else, or am I just hopelessly naive with my expectations of humans?