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Jumpstart your fitness resolution with this sale on a workout streaming service

sudshr47 December 20, 2018

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Committing to a New Year’s fitness resolution would be so much easier if the New Year didn’t fall right in the middle of winter, when trudging to the gym in heavy cold-weather gear is a workout in itself. 

We’re still waiting on a personal trainer delivery service — you could call it “Swolmates” or something (cc: Silicon Valley startup bros with cash to burn). In the meantime, there’s always Live Streaming Fitness, a service that hooks you up with 24/7 access to on-demand fitness classes taught by the industry’s best trainers.

Featured on Good Morning America, USA Today, and more, Live Streaming Fitness could very well be all you need to get in shape and stay that way well through 2019 — no need to sign up for any other classes or memberships. Simply log on to your account whenever and wherever you’ve got an internet connection, then take your pick from yoga, cardio, strength training, and specialized workout classes of various difficulty levels. Read more…

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Zwift, which turns indoor cycling workouts into multiplayer games, raises $120M

sudshr47 December 19, 2018

Fitness and gaming have been two of the most popular categories of apps for years, and now a startup founded out of London that has combined the two in a unique way has picked up a big round of funding to capitalise on that. Zwift, an interactive platform for people to turn indoor cycling workouts […]

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Puma is reissuing a 1986 fitness-tracking ‘smart shoe’

sudshr47 December 11, 2018

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The nostalgia carousel keeps going round and round, and brands have happily hopped on for the ride.

Puma announced Monday that it would reissue a little-known shoe with a technical twist from 1986: the RS-Computer Shoe. The shoe, then and now, looks like a running shoe with a plastic protuberance on the back — which is where the shoe tracks your movement and activity. 

Chunky and retro fabulous? Yep, sounds like a very on-trend shoe to us. Plus, Puma is only releasing 86 of these babies (as in the year the shoe was released). So the hype beasts might really line up for this one. Read more…

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Apple Watch Series 4 review: Sidekick no more

sudshr47 September 25, 2018

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Like a baby learning how to walk and talk, the Apple Watch can finally stand on its own two feet and proudly say “Look world, I’ve arrived!”

In hindsight, it’s clear Apple at first didn’t know what it wanted the Apple Watch to be. Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the smartwatch as “the next chapter in Apple’s story” at the tail end of its iPhone 6 event in 2014, and at first it seemed like the Apple Watch would be a tiny iPhone for your wrist. Read more…

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Redesigned Google Fit makes daunting fitness goals more achievable

sudshr47 August 22, 2018

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Raise your hand if you walk 10,000 steps a day or complete 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity or 150 minutes of moderate physical activity a week as recommended by the American Heart Association (AHA).

It’s wonderful if you do — you’re living a healthy and active life. But most Americans fall short of these recommended fitness goals, putting them at higher risk of getting health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, or dementia.

Why? The goals feel unachievable. To help correct this, Google reached out to the AHA to build a revamped Google Fit app and platform that better translates its physical activity guidelines into more achievable goals that Americans can incorporate into their daily routines. Basically: You don’t need to have a gym membership in order to live a healthy and active life. Read more…

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Can’t afford a trainer? This online fitness program could be the next best thing and it’s only $19.

sudshr47 August 16, 2018

Admit it: motivating yourself to get up on the couch and hit the gym is HARD. You always say that you’re going to go for a run or finally take advantage of your abandoned gym membership, but as soon as Netflix autoplays another episode of your favori…

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Naked Labs raises $14M Series A led by Founders Fund for its 3D body scanning mirror

sudshr47 August 1, 2018

When it comes to measuring your fitness progress, there’s only so much your weight scale can tell you, actually there’s only one thing it can convey. That one metric hardly encapsulates all of the successes that active people are looking to achieve. Naked Labs believes that body shape is a more important thing to measure […]

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