Lifehacker names Gyminee one of “Six Best Exercise Planning and Tracking Tools”

Posted by Andy - 05/17/09 at 10:05:20 am

A special thanks to all of the Lifehacker readers for helping name Gyminee one of the “Six Best Exercise Planning and Tracking Tools”. We are honored to be on this list with other great companies, including Garmin and Nike+.

You can see the full article by following this link: Six Best Exercise Planning and Tracking Tools.

“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.

Don’t Panic, Here’s a Great Gift Idea!

Posted by derek - 12/14/08 at 02:12:22 pm

With Christmas less than 2 weeks away and the start of a New Year just around the corner, you’re probably beginning to panic as you try to think of what to get that special someone. There is no shortage of ideas but finding something meaningful is no easy task.

Wouldn’t it be great to give a gift that could change that special someone’s life?  Well, here is one idea…

How about giving the ‘Gift of  Health’ ?  The timing is perfect and armed with our new 1 year Gyminee PRO Membership, he or she can start fresh and begin that ‘Life Change’ in 2009!  Subscribing to PRO workouts, setting some achievable fitness goals, and participating in a Challenge are just a few of the small steps that lead to significant change.

Now if you wanted to impress them even more, you could add a cool Gyminee T-shirt from our Gyminee Store with that membership!. If you have a humorous side, go a size or two up or down as an incentive for them to reach their goals.

Healthy holidays from the Gyminee Team.

Gyminee Wins Mashable Open Web Awards - Blogger’s Choice

Posted by Andy - 12/10/08 at 12:12:43 pm

We are pleased to announce that Gyminee has been selected to receive the Blogger’s Choice Open Web Award for 2008.  We were selected as the best in the “Sports and Fitness” category by a panel of over 100 Blog Partners.  The full announcement can be found on the Mashable blog.

The final round voting for the People’s Choice is still in progress.  You can vote for us once per day, per email address by using the following widget:

Voting closes this Sunday night at midnight!  Thanks for your support!

Gyminee Featured on Lifehacker

Posted by JuryDuty - 11/09/08 at 01:11:05 pm

This week Gyminee was featured on Lifehacker, one of the Internet’s very popular destinations for “tips and downloads for getting things done.”

Here’s their synopsis about Gyminee:

“Weightloss webapp Gyminee takes your fitness goals to the cloud. Search for new workouts, nutritional information, join groups of like-minded exercisers, participate in challenges, and find “GymBuddies” to serve as accountability partners and morale boosters. The layout of the site is clean and the functions easy to access. The home base of your Gyminee experience is “My Locker Room” where you can track a variety of fitness goals from defaults like body weight, body fat, resting heart rate, and size measurements, to custom user-defined entries like mile times, lap speed, or any other fitness goal you want to track. The locker room also has charts to map out your progress, a journal for detailing your fitness transformation, and a section for progress pictures so everyone can see how you went from Cubicle Jockey to Jacked and Tan.”

We welcome any Lifehacker readers who want to give Gyminee a try! We believe you’ll find it to be the BEST place on the web for tracking your exercise and nutrition, bar none.

Meanwhile, we encourage Gyminee users to jump over to Lifehacker, check their site out and let their readers know what you like about Gyminee in the comments section of their article.

–JuryDuty

(Christopher Maselli at WritingMomentum.com)

More Positive Press for Gyminee

Posted by Andy - 02/07/08 at 04:02:00 pm

Gyminee continues to get positive publicity. We were recently featured in several regional newspapers, including Montgomery, Birmingham, Chattanooga, Huntsville, Florence, and Gadsden.

The article explains the purpose of Gyminee and describes a group of friends using Gyminee for accountability. Click here to read the full article in The Montgomery Advertiser.

Gyminee on O’Reilly Radar

Posted by Andy - 01/03/08 at 06:01:00 am

Brady Forrest wrote a very nice article on Gyminee for O’Reilly Radar. He found Gyminee in the Apple Webapps directory for iPhone applications. The iPhone is a great way to use Gyminee while at the gym or on-the-go to track your fitness and nutrition.

Brady says:

Gyminee at its heart is a capture and reporting site for my body’s metrics. These sites have been around for a while, but until now there was never a “sensor” or capture system in place that would work — for me at least. The iPhone that I have on me at all times (and listen to during workouts) combined with Gyminee’s mobile interface has tackled that hard problem.

 

Click here to read the full article.

Gyminee on BBC News!

Posted by Andy - 12/07/07 at 09:12:00 pm

Gyminee was recently featured on the BBC News website! Kate Russell discussed Gyminee under her “Webscape” section of the BBC’s “Click” programme (I normally wouldn’t use the British spelling, but it is kind of cool).

Kate says, “Now if you think that all of this staring into a PC screen is unhealthy, this site should rectify that. Gyminee is a fitness and workout tracking site, which allows users to keep a strict eye on their fitness regime…”

Click here to read more of the article…

Gyminee Featured on Ehrensenf

Posted by Andy - 10/24/07 at 08:10:00 pm

Gyminee was recently featured on the German video podcast Ehrensenf. Ehrensenf is a little like Rocketboom (a daily technology video podcast). As a result, we are pleased to welcome our many new German Gyminee users!

You can view the video podcast by clicking here.

Gyminee is “Unreasonably Useful”

Posted by Andy - 10/22/07 at 09:10:00 pm

Yesterday Gyminee was listed as one of 15 Unreasonably Useful Websites by WebUpon, an up-and-coming technology blog. This article made it to the Digg front page, which resulted in a lot of traffic for us. Pretty amazing to be in the same group as YouTube, Wikipedia, and IMDB.

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