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FitocracyWhat if fitness could be a game? This is the question behind Fitocracy, an interactive, online game meant to improve real physical fitness. While users play, they are tracking progress and competing against friends. Fitocracy believes making fitness more fun and game-like will make it easier to achieve real results. Users log their activity, for which they receive points that allow them to "level up" and rise up the leaderboard. Users can also receive Achievements and unlock Quests. Finally, users can add tags to their profiles to describe themselves and find people like them (e.g. SF, Skiing, Sailing). URL: fitocracy.com Tags: fitness, social, web app |
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GAIN FitnessGAIN Fitness (in public beta) was motivated by a former college football player's frustration with trying to stay fit in the real world. GAIN aims to provide customized "personal training" to users by designing workouts tailored to their goals and fitness levels. Workouts are based on an algorithm built from the input of fitness experts. Workouts are displayed with images of each exercise and large graphics indicating reps and number of sets. Users can click for exercise details or to play a video demo. The create Quick-Workout feature is available now, with Gain-Plan, Analyze and Library features coming soon. URL: gainfitness.com Tags: web app, fitness |
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NeuFitNeuFit is a social game that interacts with Facebook and aims to make users healthier by making exercise more fun and addictive. When users perform healthy activities like going to the gym and parking further from destinations, they earn points and rewards. NeuFit encourages users to interact with their friends by unlocking rare in-game items when users challenge others with activity goals or motivate their friends to move more. NeuFit users can earn more points by using connected devices, such as BodyMedia and Fitbit. NeuFit is in private beta. URL: neufit.com Tags: fitness, social, web app |
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RunningAHEADRunningAHEAD is an online training log and collection of web tools that will analyze running data that has been recorded by Garmin Forerunner, Polar heart rate monitors, Runner's World, or your own spreadsheet. Users can display data in Facebook, track shoe mileage and workout equipment usage, create detailed maps and running routes, add stats scripts for blogs, and create displays and analyses of workouts. RunningAHEAD is free and supported by donations. URL: runningahead.com Tags: Android, fitness, location, web app |
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RunningFreeOnlineRunningFreeOnline is a website intended to help users achieve fitness goals. RunningFreeOnline resulted from the July 2010 merging of RunSaturday, an activity tracking site with users from around the world, and RunningFree magazine, a freely distributed UK publication. Users can upload workout logs from a variety of GPS-enabled devices and create detailed maps and statistics. Users can access the magazine online, which has articles on fitness and nutrition. The site is interactive: users can join group challenges and add to discussions. They can also look for races in their area. URL: runningfree.com Tags: Android, fitness, location |
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runtasticruntastic is a mobile app that tracks sports performance. The free ite version automatically tracks distance, time, speed, pace, and displays your route on a map. You can share results on Twitter and Facebook. The Pro version includes voice feedback, no adds, geotagging, heartrate monitoring, live tracking, and you can create individual workouts. The Pro version costs $5.99 to download. More apps are available just for the iPhone, including walktastic Pro, cytastic Pro, runtastic Wintersports free and Pro, and Fitnessmeister free and Pro. URL: runtastic.com Tags: Android, fitness, iPhone, location |
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SkimbleSkimble is a mobile app that offers Workout Trainer and Skimble Sports Tracker features. Workout Trainer mimics virtual personal trainers, giving step-by-step audio instructions through workouts. Skimble Sports Tracker lets users track sports progress for 45 activities, automatically create maps, and share progress on Facebook and Twitter. Skimble requires a free online account, on which users can add friends through social networks and follow their activities. URL: skimble.com Tags: Android, fitness, iPhone, location |
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SparkPeopleSparkPeople is an online community dedicated to weight loss. It claims to be America's #1 weight loss and fitness website, with over 9 million people. SparkPeople is free to join and members can do the following: - create personalized diet and fitness plans - track calories and workouts - see exercise demos and videos - get answers from dietitians and trainers on message boards - connect with people similar to them in the site's support teams SparkPeople has several partner sites, including SparkRecipes, SparkPeople Mobile, dailySpark, SparkAmerica, SparkSavings, BabyFit, and SPARKteens. URL: sparkpeople.com Tags: Android, fitness, food, iPhone, lifestyle, social, web app |
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StravaStrava is a sports tracker mobile app and website. There is an emphasis on cycling but other sports, like hiking, running and skiing can be tracked as well. Strava will keep other data separate from cycling data. Strava has automatic mapping and elevation tracking. Users can highlight their favorite streets or routes and Strava will note those for future rides. Strava tracks heart rate and mileage from GPS devices. Strava can also assess power output by estimating wattage based on terrain covered. Users can compete against each other and follow their cycling community. Finally, Strava tracks equipment usage. URL: strava.com Tags: fitness, iPhone, location, web app |
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TraineoTraineo is an online community of over 200,000 people who want to lose weight. Traineo offers motivation tips, diet and nutrition tips, diet plans, recipes, exercise plans, exercise demos and videos, visualization of weight change, and member forums. Traineo is free. A paid option is available through TraineoPlus, which costs $59.95/year and lets users see more detailed weight loss graphs. URL: traineo.com Tags: fitness, social, web app |
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Tags: iPhone, fitness, web app, sleep, productivity, lifestyle, gadget, lifelogging |
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Co-founder of dailymile.com Tags: web app, fitness, API, health, goals, social |
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Lab geek at heart, I wired up my terrarium with thermometers, lights, and humidity sensors 30 years ago. Fascinated by the potential uses of bio-metric devices for medicine, health, and law enforcement safety/security. Tags: Android, API, lifelogging, gadget, web app, goals, health, mood, fitness, medicine, sleep |
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Tags: Android, goals, API, health, sleep, fitness, learning, mood, food, lifestyle, productivity, money |
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Tags: lifelogging, food, productivity, money, web app, health, goals, fitness, learning, mood, social |
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I'm mostly into bio tracking at the moment, but I can see myself getting sucked into more... Tags: health, sleep, iPhone, fitness, food, gadget |
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Tags: web app, API, health, medicine, location, fitness, learning, lifelogging, lifestyle |
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I use self-tracking patterns....particularly sleep for art making. Also very interested in daily activity logs (if anyone tracks themselves). Use a fitbit, zeo, daily weight, micro-journaling with mercury app. Tags: sleep, fitness, food, lifelogging |
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I'm Tom Weingarten, the creator of Giraph. Tags: Android, API, goals, medicine, health, sleep, location, energy, fitness, food, lifestyle, lifelogging, mood, social, learning, money, productivity, web app |