I didn’t get to the gym – again. The phone started at 7:30 in the morning; the puppy refused to eat or poop – even after a 45 minute walk. I was on a tight deadline for a client. My daughter is in Vietnam and Thailand making a video for her company and, happily, we found some time to Skype. And then I had to clean the house, water the plants, trim my bangs, faux tan, weed the lawn. In other words, I lost my motivation and pulled out every excuse I could imagine to avoid working out. If only I had someone to kick my butt.
Studies have shown the real-world benefits of having a workout buddy in overcoming a lack of motivation. Fleetly 2.0, which was just released in the Apple app store, gives you a workout buddy on your smartphone. How cool is that?
Fleetly 2.0 is a free social fitness app that lets you find workouts, create custom workouts, join challenges, earn rewards, and easily share results and content with friends and family. With Fleetly 2.0 you can track workouts, fitness levels and goals while taking your fitness to a social and competitive level by engaging with others. Join a myriad of challenges based on your fitness goals and interests. I’m going for the Six Pack 2011 challenge, which will reward the person who records the most crunches in 2011. And with Fleetly 2.0 you can not only challenge yourself, but also keep track of where you stand in comparison to other challengers via leaderboards. Fleetly’s own numbers have shown that those who join challenges and engage with their friends and family through the app work out twice as often as those who do not.
New for Fleetly 2.0:
– “People” tab, which greatly enhances communication among friends within the app and allows friends to comment on challenges and workouts
– Custom workout generator, which provides a suggested workout that you can easily accept or modify
– Choose your goals (4 settings: get lean, toned, strong and pumped)
– Choose the body parts you want to work out
– Choose the type of workout equipment available to you
– Choose the time you have available
– Publicly displayed Fitness Level for easy comparison with friends
– Ability to set your Fitness Level target
– Improved history view of workouts, grouped by date
Check out Fleetly 2.0 in the App Store and find out more about the app from the Fleetly blog.
There are no excuses anymore …
Love this article. Love all your articles. So helpful and sooooo understanding of today’s woman.