Recent Downtime

Posted by Andy - 04/24/09 at 11:04:21 am

We are fixing some things on the Gyminee site.  We care very much about giving you a great experience, and are not pleased with how the site is responding.  Here is a little info on what is going on behind the scenes:

• We are growing very quickly and in the process of moving our servers to a much more reliable setup.  This setup will be able to handle a lot of growth and should make your Gyminee experience quicker and more reliable.
• We also made some changes to the code a few days ago that introduced a few bugs with workouts.  We made the changes in order to support the iPhone app that will be coming out soon.  Some of you have reported “missing exercises” in workouts.  We are aware of the bugs and should have them fixed very soon.

Sorry for the problems.  If you have any bugs to report outside of the “missing exercise” bug, please send us email at feedback@gyminee.com.

UPDATE: All of the major exercise-related bugs were solved yesterday afternoon (thanks to everyone who helped us narrow down the problem!). Also, we’re pushing hard to make our server upgrade early next week. We’re pretty excited, it will be kind of like upgrading from a Civic to a Porsche.

“Biggest Loser” Using Gyminee as Virtual Biggest Loser Ranch

Posted by Andy - 04/21/09 at 09:04:35 am

The following post is a guest post from Maggie King, a contestant on the Season 5 of “The Biggest Loser” and Gyminee user:

As the year anniversary of “The Biggest Loser” Season 5 finale approached on April 15, I found it necessary to take a good hard look at the past 12 months of my life.  I moved to Boston, started working three jobs, made amazing new friends (while still holding on to my old ones), found a great trainer, had tons of fun…and gained 10 pounds!

How would I feel knowing that I put such incredible, intense effort into making myself a healthier person only to gain it all back?  I do not want to be one of those “Biggest Loser” contestants to gain their weight back.  I refuse.  Plus, losing 70 pounds in 6 months really showed me what I’m made of, showed me how strong I am, and showed me that it can be done.  When I saw that scale tipping more and more to the right, I just knew I had to make a change.

One of my best friends from San Francisco and I had discussed keeping ourselves accountable for working out, eating right, and losing weight before two of our other friends get married in July.  However, we had found it somewhat difficult with the 3 hour time difference to keep ourselves on track as much as we’d hoped.  This wedding is very important to a group of about 10 of my friends, since it is the first time we will all be together since we worked at a summer camp 2 years ago.  It is especially important to me because it will be the first time my friends are seeing me since I have lost my weight.

Since my Californian friend sent me the invite for Gyminee, we have been cheering one another on and making sure that we are staying true to our tasks.  It has been really fun keeping each other accountable even though we are a whole country apart.  Having gym buddies on Gyminee makes me feel like I am back on “The Biggest Loser” ranch.  I feel motivated through the support of others and hope that I can help my gym buddies feel the same way!

xoxo

Maggie

From Andy: We are really pleased that Maggie is doing a great job at tracking her workouts on Gyminee.  Maybe she will take advantage of the food options soon. :-)  You can follow her progress or invite her to be your friend by visiting her locker room page.

Calendar Subscriptions

Posted by Stephen - 04/07/09 at 04:04:18 pm

Your Calendar allows you to see a high-level overview of your tracking behavior, and it also allows you to schedule your Workouts and Meals if you are a PRO user.

This PRO functionality has been greatly improved in a couple of ways.

Calendar Subscriptions

The new “Subscribe To My Calendar” feature allows you to subscribe to an ical feed in any calendar software that supports calendar subscriptions (and all of the major ones support this). So, if you are the type who manages your day-to-day activities using Google Calendar, Apple iCal, or Microsoft Outlook, you can now have your Gyminee Workouts, Meals, and Notes right there alongside the rest of your life. Also, all the changes you make on Gyminee will be automatically kept in sync with your calendar software.

Event Time & Duration

Second, you now have more control over how you schedule your workouts. Settings for time and duration have been added, which provide the level of control that many of you need to properly schedule your activities.

So, let’s say you want to schedule your Cardio workout for every other Tuesday at 3:45-4:30 PM? No problem, and now thanks to the new Calendar Subscriptions you can use your favorite calendar software to help keep yourself accountable to your fitness routine.

Enjoy!

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