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Web Based Exercise and Fitness Tracking
By admin | April 18, 2008
Many of us always find it very hard to get into the habit of fitness, exercise and eating right. It’s almost impossible for someone whose lifestyle does not involve physical activity to suddenly get into shape. As with smoking it’s very hard to quit. Many of us already know that smoking is bad for our health as well as being out of shape and obese but how do we get out of this slump? What can we do to get motivated, not for one day or a week but for the rest of our lives?
In this article, I’ve tried to dig into many popular fitness sites and in particular the websites which are community based, provides basic programs to keep track of all exercise and diet plans. Although this list may not help most of us, but it will help the few that have some inner motivation to reach out to people similar to them who also want to change. You can find a fitness companion on the virtual world, share ideas, track your exercises and much more. The following is a list of 25 different most popular websites which I find valuable.
- Traineo – a weight loss and fitness tracker designed to keep you motivated to achieve your fitness goals. Get other people to motivate you and on track with your diet and fitness tracking.
- FitDay – Create a free account to enter your daily foods and exercise and analyzes and tracks all your information.
- Crossfit – A free fitness website that posts a new “Workout of the Day” every day. The workouts focus on total body fitness. The workouts are used by military personnel, athletes, and normal people. The site also contains an index of the exercises used in the workouts complete with videos and slide shows. They offer a newsletter for those willing to pay. It is an outstanding site for both fitness gurus and average Joes.
- FitWatch – Offers free fitness and nutrition tracking that allows you to keep track of your exercise and diet. There’s also a paid version that offers more features.
- WalkerTracker – a community site for pedometer fans to log and track their steps.
- MapMyRun - A community web site for runners and joggers who want to stay healthy, lose weight or train more effectively.
- TheDailyPlate – Just tell The Daily Plate what you’re eating, and they’ll do the work, drawing charts of the nutrition you’re getting or should be. It has a calorie calculator, food journal, diet tracker, fitness log, forums and so much more.
- My-Health-and-Fitness – Provides bunch of free health programs mostly web based. This is useful if you want to add it to your website. Check out the following neat tools on the site.
- Office Fitness Timer – a free PHP / Javascript tool that will help you keep fit while working at your desk. Just use the timer to take stretching breaks, or Tai Chi sessions.
- Daily Diabetes Diet Counter – a free, Javascript-based counter that helps web site visitors with Diabetes track their daily intake of calories, starches, vegetables, and more.
- Weight Loss Recipe Book – a free, community-driven online recipe book. You just approve recipes and watch your web site content expand!
- The Anti-Diet Pill – a visually appealing randomly generated diet tip script (say that ten times fast) that you can add to your web site for free.
- Exercise Tip Email Buddy – a free program you can add to your web site that will allow visitors to sign up for an automatic exercise tip e-mail list. Great for building up a mailing list while you get your health related newsletter ready.
- Health Tip Email Buddy – a free program you can add to your web site that will allow visitors to sign up for an automatic health tip e-mail list.
- Calorie Burning Calculator – a free health calculator you can add to your web site so that visitors can calculate their basal metabolic rate (BMR), or the number of calories per day their body requires to maintain it’s weight.
- Quick Health Calculator – a free online calculator to calculate body mass index, or BMI. Add it to your health-related web site for added functionality
- Health and Fitness Calculator – a free software program calculator for your Windows desktop that calculates body mass index, or BMI, as well as risk some weight-related health issues.
- WorkoutZone – Pretty cool site to track your workout.
- I-Fitnesscenter – The online fitness center and walking club. It enabled you to use your IPod for exercise tracking. Membership is free
- FitTracker – an online community where members can connect with each other to socialize and learn more about health and fitness!
- Use our diet tracker to monitor your food intake and find out how many calories you are actually consuming every day! Our exercise tracker makes tracking your workouts easy as ever! Access our database of over 400 exercises to track and create workouts!
- Gimme20 – Discover existing workout routines or create your own and then track your results. Make freinds, create blog chat and etc. Also track your weight loss.
- FitLink – meet workout parnters and track your workouts
- My Calorie Counter – free onlin diet and exercise journal
- ShapeLink – Free online fitness journal and exercise log!
- DietTV.com - Get fit, stay on track and be supported by the community.
- MyPyramindTracker - an online dietary and physical activity assessment tool that provides information on your diet quality, physical activity status, related nutrition messages, and links to nutrient and physical activity information.
- SparkPeople – Get a personalized diet or healthy lifestyle program. Very active website.
- DemandFitness – online video fitness. Join the community.
- Family Workout – Free workout tracker for families.
- FitNRG – A Fitness, Health and Weight Loss Social Network.
- Calorie Counter – As the name implies. This site is all about calorie counting and how to best track your calorie input. It’s pretty cool as it lists all the well known foods and beverages out there with their actual calorie numbers.
- hdotraining.com – Considered one of the best e-trainer websites by Men’s Journal. The website only supports IE browser for some stupid reason.
- nhlbisupport.com/bmi – The most precise way of measuring if you’re, you know, fat is body mass index, a vital indicator for your risk of heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers. But how do you calculate it? Step on a scale, plug your weight and height into this calculator, and press Compute BMI.
- The Couch-to-5K Running Plan – Not a tracker site but I had to include this. This article provides a schedule for a couch potato to get up and become fit runner.
That’s it for now. If you know of a website similar to the above list, please share it with us.
Topics: Fitness | 17 Comments »
April 18th, 2008 at 5:33 am
I bought one of these nutrition scales and it has help me regulate and count calorie to necessary for me to lose weight. What an invaluable tool
April 18th, 2008 at 8:30 am
There is a new website, GymChatter.com, http://www.gymchatter.com. This website offers free workout tracking and is focused on making it easier to find workout buddies at your gym.
April 18th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
This list seems to feature sites that I am not fond of. Where are the quality sites like http://www.pumpone.com and http://www.hyperstrike.com? Much higher quality exercise information, better exercise demonstrations. Many of the sites listed here are poorly designed and hard to use.
April 18th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Just for your infor, another good site, more focused on food and diet than exercise is fatsecret.com
April 19th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Oh, you missed my favorite fitness website: http://www.workoutsondemand.com . Try their Butt Burner Workouts—–woweeee, they are tough but that is exactly what I need!
April 21st, 2008 at 1:21 pm
I’ll check these sites out, but I’m a huge fan of introPLAY – http://www.introplay.com . introPLAY lets me track all my workouts, from golf to running to my gym workouts. And they have these exercise competitions that I start with friends every month or so. It’s really motivating and free to use. They even have a neat facebook app!
June 21st, 2008 at 11:25 am
Hi,
You’ve compiled some very useful information with this article. This is definitely an area that, with the growth of user friendly applications, is rapidly growing. I would strongly suggest checking out GYMINEE- http://www.gyminee.com
June 26th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
WalkingSpree.com also offers a pedometer program that uses a USB pedometer to upload to the website. Members have blogs, profiles, forums, walking clubs and more.
July 21st, 2008 at 11:12 am
I’ve tried a lot of the sites on this list, but the one that I like the most is myfitnesspal.com. It’s the easiest to use and the fastest to log your food, and when you’re trying to log every day, an easy to use site is really beneficial. Plus it’s got a really great, supportive community.
September 1st, 2008 at 11:33 am
Hi! This is a great list of products out there. A newer site to check out is http://www.healthehuman.com. It has a lot of these health tracking tools in one place, as well as trackers for things like body composition, body measurements, and some fitness devices as well. Pretty easy to use as well.
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September 19th, 2008 at 9:23 am
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September 24th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Wow, a lot of great links thanks. For me the most motivating thing is thinking about being in a bathing suit for Summer.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
I’ve created another myself. I wanted to be all in flash and faster to use. You can check it out, i’ve opened it to people for free: http://www.healthymechanics.com
There’s some screenshots on the website for a quick look.
April 7th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
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May 3rd, 2009 at 5:29 am
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