Fresh Features

Posted by Stephen - 03/25/09 at 04:03:24 pm

1) New Challenges

Challenges have become one of the most popular features on Gyminee, and they have really done a great job at helping people stay motivated and see results - users have recorded over 48,800 pounds lost in Weight Loss challenges to date. To help continue this trend, we have added some new styles of challenges.

Body Fat Challenges

Now you can create or join a challenge that lets you compete to see who can lose the most off of their percentage Body Fat. For example, you can join a challenge where the goal is to lose the most Body Fat within 3 months.

Reps Based Challenges

These allow you to compete in certain exercises to see who can do the most reps. For example, you could challenge your friends to see who could do 5,000 Crunches first.

Calories Burned Challenges

This type of challenge looks at all of your exercise activity recorded on Gyminee, and then uses the total Calories burned to update your challenge progress. Currently, these are only available as “Everybody Wins” Challenges (see below).

New Everybody Wins Challenges

A handful of new “Everybody Wins” style challenges have been created. Here’s a few of them (you can browse for more by visiting here):

	Burn 25K Cals Get recognition for all the hard work you’re doing. There are Challenges for burning 5K and 50K Calories well.
	1,000 Pushups How long will it take you to do 1,000 Pushups?
	Lose 10% Body Fat If you track your Body Fat, then this type of challenge is for you.

2) Progress Image Improvements

Keeping a visual log of your progress over time can be a great motivator. We wanted to improve this experience in a couple of ways. First, we bumped up the supported image size so that people could upload more detailed images. Also, we moved away from a small, contained slideshow viewer to one that allows you to click on thumbnails and easily view images at their full resolution.

Second, we added a new way for users to browse public images. Before now, the only way to view a user’s Progress Images was to click through to their Profile page. Now, there is a Browse Public Progress Images section that lets you easily find other users who have shared some public images.

Side-note: If you see an image that is inappropriate you can now flag it for removal and an administrator will review it. This is also available for flagging posts as spam in the Forums if you are an active Forum user.

3) Workout Program Browsing

The last feature to cover is a small, yet quite useful, improvement to finding Workout Programs. Before now, your only option for finding a Workout Program that may be interesting to you was to enter a search term. Now, when you browse for workout programs you will see a drop-down box that helps you find programs by category (Fat Loss, Cardio, Free Weights, Intermediate, Advanced, etc.).

That wraps up this quick look at some of the new features that have been added to Gyminee. Lots of other stuff is also in the works!

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