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I need your feedback – Health Habits & Social Networking

November 22nd, 2009

Every week, I get a bunch of emails from readers.

And every week, I am blown away by the quality and depth of your questions, comments, observations and criticisms.

And, as much as I enjoy reading those emails, I think it’s a shame that the rest of the Health Habits readers don’t get to join in the discussion. I think that we could get much more out of Health Habits if there was more interaction between all of us.

Because of this, I have been looking at ways of  making Health Habits more “social”.

Here’s what I am thinking of doing:

  1. Setting up a facebook page/group page for Health Habits
  2. Setting up a twitter group for Health Habits (currently 75 people have added me to their list)
  3. Setting up a separate community site using Ning or SocialGo
  4. Or testing out this new Wordpress plugin that would allow us to set up a social network right on the blog.

All of these approaches have their pluses and minuses.

So, I would appreciate your feedback:

  • Is this a good idea or not?
  • Which social networking tool do you think is best?
  • Any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Doug

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iFitness Hack

September 18th, 2009

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The iFitness smartphone application is one of the best and most popular iPhone/Blackberry apps for fitness junkies.

  • It has a huge exercise database that provides clear instructions and pictures of hundreds of exercises.
  • It has all sorts of pre-designed workouts based upon your individual fitness goals.
  • It also lets you design custom workouts
  • You can even create new exercises and upload pictures.

But, it isn’t perfect.

What I would like to see is an iFitness hack where people like me (trainers) could design custom iFitness workouts for other iFitness subscribers (my clients).

But, you can’t do that.

And since I have had no success in contacting iFitness (email, phone, carrier pigeon) about this issue, I thought that I would throw my request out onto the internet.

So, is there anyone out there with the computer skills to help me design a better iFitness-esqe app?

[contact-form]

And for those of you who have no idea what iFitness is, here is an introductory video

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maerpYy3T4c]

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