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What are the best fitness web sites?

Asked by mj (5points) September 19th, 2008

I want to build a fitness plan for myself, just for general health and recreational sports.

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gooch's avatar

Fitness is best done away from the computer.

jrpowell's avatar

I have heard good things about fitday.com.

FrancisRude's avatar

Theres alot of fitness websites you can see. I always use Menshealth.com As a magazine subscriber, I use the website more than I read their magazines. Fitday is a good fitness website as well. But if you know what particular question you have I suggest google is still the best :)

tanibear's avatar

Sparkpeople hands and pecs down!!!!!! It has everything you need from exercise with videos to menu planning, teams you can join or create to calorie/exercise trackers and its FREE and always will be!....Gooch you are absolutely correct that fitness is best done away from the computer but a fitness site can give some people great motivation and support from others desiring a healthier lifestyle..

hearkat's avatar

@tanibear: Thanks for the SparkPeople reference… I’m setting up my profile now :-)

anthelios77's avatar

Gyminee is also an awesome alternative. They integrate with twitter and stuff and will, hopefully soon, be compatible with GPS devices and other toys. Fitness + social networking is a great recipe!

How do you enjoy SparkPeople?

hearkat's avatar

@anthelios77:
Actually, I didn’t like it. I am pretty computer and web savvy, and found it very cumbersome to navigate through. Great concept, but lacking in execution. I also wished it had more mobile capabilities.

I’ll check out Gyminee now!

anthelios77's avatar

Gyminee is lacking in mobile capabilities, and they need a good help section.. but they are still new and developing their platform. The people there are great and I get the sensation that the developers are listening.

Look me up there if you need any help, I’m using the same name as here.

anthelios77's avatar

Body Daemon seems like a good option as well.

I have a ton of links if none of the above suggestions is to you liking.

hearkat's avatar

Gyminee has an iPhone platform… I haven’t accessed it. Like Spark, it is hard to document class workouts, some of which incorporate cardio, strength and streching. So it’s tough for me to track. I didn’t have a chance to check put the nutrition stuff yet.

anthelios77's avatar

Yea.. I haven’t seen a place that is good for documenting class workouts. Well none that is in English at least. I don’t know how it would be added though since the workout done depends very much on the instructor. I’m thinking about getting a bodypulsemeter to check how much I burn in each session and then add the data to my custom exercises. Don’t know what to do with the strength aspect yet though..

yorto's avatar

porn… feel the calories burn!

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