Fitness Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums

Self-knowledge through numbers. There are more and more new tools that make self-tracking easier online, and empowered patients seem to be involved in the process of recording different kinds of health parameters in order to use the data for wise and evidence-based decision-making regarding their lifestyle or habits. Here are the most famous self-tracking projects and tools.

Daytum

• Description: "Whether you would like to tally an afternoon or a year, Daytum can help you collect and communicate the most important statistics in your life. From an up-to-the-moment personal dashboard, to a tabulation of an event, a home for sports scores, or as a corporate tool, the uses for Daytum may be limitless."
• Quality: Daytum is an elegant and intuitive tool for counting and communicating personal statistics.

Quantified Self

• Description: A community for people recording different parameters of their lives. An example is Alexandra Carmichael, co-founder of CureTogether, who records 40 things about her daily life, including “sleep (bed time, wake time, sleep quality, naps), morning weight, daily caloric intake (each meal, total calculated at end of day, mealtimes, mood, day of menstrual cycle, sex (quantity, quality), exercise (duration, type),” etc. More information on the Quantified Self Wiki.

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TheCarrot

• Description: "TheCarrot.com provides easy-to-use tools for tracking your life for a variety of topics including health, nutrition, fitness, and medicines—all within a familiar calendar format. Through this free, anonymous service, you gain a comprehensive view of your health that helps you identify areas of improvement and goal-setting."
• Quality: Free, easy, and anonymous tools for tracking your health

21-15-9

• Description: 21-15-9.com is a Crossfit-centric social fitness community. A digital logbook for tracking your workouts, results and personal records.
• Quality: It has clear contact information.

DailyBurn

• Description: "DailyBurn is the fastest-growing diet and fitness tracking site on the web. You can track what you eat with a few clicks, record your workouts in minutes and find people to keep you accountable."
• Quality: It has been mentioned by Washington Post, TechCrunch and many more.

FitConnect

• Description: FitConnect is a fitness community to share fitness tips, healthy recipes, videos, and workout routines.
• Quality: It has a clearly described policy including potential safety issues and also contact information.

FitFiend

• Description: "FitFiend.com is an online fitness community designed to cater to the fitness fiends in all of us. The site provides a platform for members to search for fitness professionals, network with each other, connect with fitness partners, rate and find gyms and other fitness related facilities, and find out about fitness events. Additionally, it will give members the opportunity to track their physical progress and workouts."
• Quality: Privacy policy, contact information and description.

FitLink

• Description: "Our mission is to establish a dynamic community that enables people to live healthy lives. We believe that a social environment helps individuals achieve their goals, whether it's losing weight, getting in shape, or running a race."
• Quality: "We recognize that thousands of professionals and organizations are already dedicated to helping people achieve these goals. By connecting fitness enthusiasts, personal trainers, health clubs, and event organizers on FitLink, we believe everyone will benefit."

Fitness Community on Revolution Health

• Description: "Revolution Health is a leading consumer-centric health company founded to transform how people approach their overall health and wellness. By putting individuals at the center of their own healthcare, Revolution Health allows them to make informed choices and offers more convenience and control over their individual healthcare decisions."
• Quality: Accredited by HONcode.

Fitness Forum on ShapeFit.com

• Content: "Fitness discussion forum for bodybuilding, weight loss, diet and exercise."
• Quality: Almost 120.000 members, more than 59.000 posts.

LifeMojo

• Description: "LifeMojo is your companion for Healthy Lifestyle, Weight Loss, Weight Loss Diet, Weight Loss Plan, Weight Loss Tips, Indian Weight Loss Diet, Running, Cycling, Walking, Fitness, Yoga and Exercise!"
• Quality: LifeMojo.com is the brainchild of three individuals who believe in staying fit, and they extend the same thought with the unique online platform aimed at providing complete and continuous wellness to millions of Indians.

MapMyRun

• Description: "MapMyFitness aims to create an interactive social network that allows people to enjoy and share their workouts. The short-term objective of MapMyFitness is to create the world's leading activity-based social networking Web sites for participants in sports and leisure activities. These activities currently include running, walking, cycling, hiking, and triathlons. MapMyFitness plans to expand to include many more fitness activities in the future."
• Quality: "MapMyRun.com users are able to visualize their health and fitness training progress through the use of maps, workout logs, fitness calculators/tools, and user-led community groups."

Passion4Profession

• Description: "Welcome to the first community dedicated to the world of wellness. With the word "wellness" we intend to include all those areas that directly or indirectly have a positive effect on our state of physical and mental health such as: fitness, sports and all related activities, healthy nutrition, mental training, physical training and more. That is why we decided to create a "community of fitness" and make available to our users, a series of useful tools to spread and simultaneously expanding your knowledge. "
• Quality: More than 20.000 users worldwide.

Seek4fitness.net

• Description: "This great and international community unites people that are interested in health, fitness, training, exercise and wellness, and offers unlimited possibilities of sharing knowledge and experiences with like-minded people."
• Quality: Contact information, press center and described advertising policy.

Traineo

• Description: "Our mission is to create the most effective health and fitness community on the web by combining the latest software technology with sound information and services from the world's leading health and fitness experts."
• Quality: "Traineo is the culmination of over six years of development, testing and focus group studies in partnership with leading experts in weight loss, health, sports and fitness."

Weight Watchers

• Description: Weight Watchers, founded over 45 years ago, is the global leader in weight management services.
• Quality: For over 40 years, Weight Watchers has helped millions of people around the world to lose weight

WorldFitness Training Forum

• Description: "Fitness.com's mission is to provide the World with healthy fitness tips and information, 100% free. With our free exercises, recipes, fitness tools & calculators, articles, diet and weight loss support forum, and our training forum, we hope to you can find all the tools needed to live a healthy and active life."
• Quality: Almost 123.000 members, more than 365.000 posts.

Facebook is a free social networking site where users can join groups. In these groups, members can post messages, interact with others or find relevant content. A few of the numerous fitness groups:

Fitness

• Description and content: "For all the people who loves fitness and make it a daily mission to challenge the body and mind. For all the people who love to improve their health and fitness and life the Fitness lifestyle."

Bodybuilding, Fitness, and Nutrition

• Description and content: "A place to come and learn. A place to compare knowledge. A place to report results. A group of athletes, trainers, or anyone interested in fitness, supplementation, nutrition, different techniques, periodization, etc. Cut out the BS, and get to the quality info. Peace."

Fitness

• Description and content: "Fitness group offers you all you want to know about Fitness and how to exercise and how to keep yourself healthy and fit."

Fitness

• Description and content: "For those men and women who want to make a positive change in their lives for people who want to commit to fitness like never before. For those people with the back bone to stand up and say I want to get fit and i want to make my life extraordinary!"

Fitness DTT

• Description and content: "Discovering what works and what doesn't in the world of health, fitness, fat loss and muscular development."

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24 Hour Fitness Get Fit Motivator

• Description and content: "Whether you’re inspired by a new year’s resolution to lose weight, a specific 2010 training goal, or simply a desire for a healthier lifestyle, the Get Fit Motivator is designed to help you identify and stick to your fitness goals all year."

CardioTrainer

• Description and content: "CardioTrainer is your mobile weight loss and fitness partner. Track your workouts with GPS, race against your best times, and plan a weight loss program."

Fitness First - Cut the Fat Challenge

• Description and content: "Watch your diet and do exercises in this simple game to lose weight."

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