New Website – DailyBurn.com
If you could imagine the ultimate fitness progress diary with every feature you could ask for, this is it.
DailyBurn is the new face of Gyminee, a progress diary website aimed at helping people achieve their weight loss or weight gain goals by providing them with a full progress tracking system and learning resource. DailyBurn membership includes a nutrition database, recipe database, exercise database, workout database, challenge database, a giant library of fitness related videos, and the list keeps going!!!!
But what’s most important about DailyBurn, and what I believe will separate this service from the others, is the accountability feature, which I do believe I thought of first!!
The accountability feature is a way of connecting with people who are also trying to achieve the same fitness goal. You can watch their progress and compliment them, or tell them to get their ass into gear and start exercising!
If that doesn’t get you motivated, nothing will!
Currently DailyBurn has over 125,000 members and they all seem to be satisfied with the service. Investors also seem to be satisfied with the business model, as they’ve funded the website with $525 000. That money has probably been half spent on the extensive database design and office purchasing, with the remainder most likely going towards TV advertising in the near future.
Upon first impression, the website is very, very nice to look at. Everything is professionally illustrated and it definitely feels like it’s backed by $525 000 worth of funding.
Signing up is a breeze and may be setting new standards for any kind of membership site, whereby as soon as you enter your details you’re logged straight in and ready to go. There is no “confirming your email address” or clicking to activate. Those annoying things are gone with DailyBurn, which is just another unique feature that’s going to bring this company to the top.
After the 20 second signup page they get straight down to business, starting with the ultimate question: How much do you weigh right now, and how much do you WANT to weigh?
Having chosen to reach 115kg, the next screen told me the exact amount of calories I must consume each day, the recommended amount of protein, carbs and fat, and the time span in which they recommend I accomplish this goal. So far so good!
Next stop, to find a workout.
Along the top is a number of tab links titled, “Locker Room”, “Workouts”, “Nutrition”, “Challenges”, “Motivation” and “Forums”.
By dropping down the “Workouts” tab, I had the following options:
I chose Find Workouts and was given a list of different types of workouts, ranging from beginner workouts, advanced, running, abdominal, fat loss, strength gain.. It’s all there!!!
The workouts have a description of each exercise with pictures and video thoroughly explaining how to do it! This site seriously has everything! You can find meal plans, new recipes, find the nutrients IN your recipes, or even CREATE YOUR OWN RECIPES! The extent to which DailyBurn has gone to cover every single aspect of fitness diary keeping is incredible.
So in conclusion, I must say that this is the best fitness diary site I’ve seen so far, and I’m positive that it will soon reach 1 million users when the word spreads about how good it is. Though having said that, I’m not going to be one of those people, and chances are, you wont be either.
Keeping a diary is a great way to maintain your motivation and track progress, but we can do this on a notepad in about 20 seconds. Logging onto a website and going through the process of entering your reps, sets, weight, exercises, feelings, emotions, experiences, food intake, calorie intake, etc, and having to wait for the website to load each time you do it, is just not worth it.
Sure, you may get a motivation boost by having it all shown in fancy graphs and have people you don’t know yelling at you to keep it up, but I think the biggest problem with people staying fit these days is the fact that they don’t have time to. Spending 20 minutes on a website every day is wasting 20 minutes worth of exercise!
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Thanks for this informative review, as well as your comment that you won't use it (and why). I just found the site yesterday, tried it out and was looking to see what others thought, which made your review very useful to me.
It may not have been available when you signed up, but I find the free iPhone application very useful, since it provides much of what's on the website. I love that I can search for a food and have it calculate the calories, fat, protein, etc. I need this sort of log to track how much (too much!) I'm taking in, and how little I exercise. Having my iPod Touch with me all the time and having WiFi at home and work means it's really easy to enter my food intake and workout. I think your estimate of 20 minutes a day is pretty high; I'd guess most people would only need 3-5 minutes, especially via the iPhone app. They have a scanner program that will let you scan the bar code of a package to snag the nutritional content too, though I haven't tried it (no camera on new iPod Touch unfortunately!).
So I'll disagree with you that few people will use this site, since the motivational aspects of tracking your food and exercise are so easy. Personally I won't pay for it, but I'm really hoping to use it. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking? I'll try to check back in here in a month.
I recently started using DailyBurn and I can't say enough good things about it. Being able to see on paper…. er… on screen seems to be the boost that I need. I have wanted to lose weight and get fit for quite some time- and this site has just been a godsend for me. If you're even THINKING of using it- GO FOR IT! Force yourself to keep up with it for a week. After that- either you will end up just as addicted as I am, or you'll stop. There is really nothing to lose- because it's still free!
It's just awesome to be able to see how many calories I have consumed, how many calories I have burned, and watch my progress on the charts (weight, BMI, measurements, and TONS of joinable challenges)….