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What's the best fitness website?

Asked by reactor5 (574points) July 28th, 2009

I’ve been looking for fitness websites to track my weights/cardio. So far I’ve found Dailyburn née Gyminee and this crazy site called SparksPeople. So Flutherites, what’s your pick? Should I go with one of the above, or something completely different? I’m pretty much willing to try anything, so long as it’s free and has a workout wizard of some kind to make data entry neat and fun!

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Likeradar's avatar

I’m not familiar with the sites you listed, but I use fitday.com. Not sure if it’s what you’re looking for.

andrew's avatar

I’ve tried gyminee, but fell off when my slacker friends wouldn’t do it with me. It’s pretty darn good.

dannyc's avatar

Fitness websites are mostly geared to getting you to join…the best part of gyms are in the 4 walls, not in their websites.

Judi's avatar

Have you looked at livestrong.com? I haven’t started it yet but I downloaded the iPhone ap and it looks like it does everything your asking for.

kellsworth's avatar

@judi I was gonna answer about livestrong, i use the website and i really like it. the way to track calories on the site awesome.

i also have iFitness on the iphone which i really like, but would enjoy more if it had a web application it could sync to.

NoCatharsis's avatar

@Judi I used this site for a couple of years, but the nutritional information is just too inconsistent. Anyone could enter anything, and often there would be 10 different entries for 1 food item. It got to be a pain to enter all of my diet in there so I gave up. A better solution would be appreciated.

NoCatharsis's avatar

@Likeradar I’ve tried to use FitDay, but it seems to lack some really basic nutritional items in its database. I tried to search for “South Beach” (as in, the brand) and it had 0 relevant results. I’ve tried searches for several other mainstream items with no luck. Am I using it wrong or does the FitDay database really lack everything useful?

Likeradar's avatar

@NoCatharsis It’s missing some stuff I think it should have, too. But you can create your own foods by filling in nutrition info and it will save them. Do other sites have a lot of brands already set up? I’m wondering if I’ve been using a crappy site this whole time…

NoCatharsis's avatar

@Likeradar I used livestrong.com (formerly thedailyplate.com) for about a year and liked it pretty well. Like I said above, though, it’s basically the opposite of FitDay, where there’s TOO MUCH information. Too many people have gotten their own bad version of nutritional data into the system so that when you search for 1 item you get 15 results, all with different caloric values. Just started using DailyBurn, and so far it seems intuitive and pretty extensive.

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