I Challenge You
You Need Me
Hey, we're on to something here. Below I am going to list just a few, easy to identify, companies and organizations who are running challenges without challenge-friendly social media software. Why does it matter? The challenge partipcants are missing out on A) social commraderie online B) fun.
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The Challenge
This week at Social Workout we've been trying to figure it all out. OK, not really ALL. We are figuring out how best to move forward with our challenges. We've spent the better part of the week analyzing, brainstorming, drinking a lot of coffee, drawing big arrows in our notepads and discussing what is to come next.
More...New Music
DJ Jazzy NPR
It's mid-February... probably a great time most of us need a new music playlist to get us going at the gym. See National Public Radio's new workout mix. The news and music powerhouse, known for its monotone on-air voices, is streaming pump-up songs for your fitness enjoyment.
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Rockstars
I am teary eyed. Verklempt. I think I just felt a stirring in my soul. I feel so darned inspired!
I've been reading the Social Workout challenge page and I think people are setting out--and doing--the coolest things.
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Technology for Fitness
Let's Get Personal
BodyMedia, Inc. has introduced a new technology to take the guess work out of losing weight and increasing your fitness. The company has long sold body monitors to track calories burned, steps taken, and sleep, but this new "coaching" technology, using IBM software, actually gives advice about what to do next.
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Fit & Rich
Doesn't everyone want to be a bit fitter with more money in their pockets in 2012? I'm just sayin'.
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Happy 2012!
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
-Lance Armstrong
Industry Playahs
New Year, New Partnership
Looks like big news from Seattle. Back in May Buster Benson posted on EnjoymentLand that he was working on something new. Around that time, Jen McCabe, the cool woman who gave us imoveyou.com (now defunct), picked up from San Fran and moved north to join Buster on the project.
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Texting for Health
Voxiva, founded in 2001, is using mobile phone apps and texting to help people get healthier. Specifically, it provides information for pregnant women and hints to help smokers quit; and keeps track of diet, excercise, flu-shots and doctor check-ups.
More...Believe It
On Being Your Best
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live Big
On Living Well
Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours.
Swedish Proverb
Money
Keas Raises $6.5 Million
Keas, the corporate health challenge game founded by Adam Bosworth, has raised $6.5 million dollars from Atlas Ventures out of Boston and Ignition Capital in Seattle. This comes just a few weeks after Runkeeper raised $10 million, and suggests that the social wellness trendlet is becoming a boomlet. Or just a plain boom.
More...Diet Intervention
Celebrity Diets
Have you made a personal goal to keep a food journal? Diet experts rate them as one of the most effective ways to lose weight. Need inspiration? Look to my favorite food blog, Grub Street Diet from New York Magazine. Every week a celebrity, restaurateur or well known foodie shares what he or she eats from Friday morning to Wednesday night.
More...Fit & Trendy
Trendy Fitness 2012
The American Council of excercise came out with a report on the top fitness trends in 2012. It's no surprise that tech-fueled workouts make the list; mobile-based apps and social media. As if you needed one more reason to use Social Workout.
More...Resolutions
A Creature of Habit
We are at the start of Christmas week and that means the end of the year is just around the corner. For me, New Year's means a big party and then waking up to a new year and a whole new set of resolutions. It is commonly thought that it takes 21 days to create a habit. Wake before 6am, run for 30 minutes, drink green juice for 21 days and *bam* you've got a healthy habit.
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