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!
www.dailyburn.com
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