Gyminee Burpee Contest

May 21, 2009

We are a completely distributed team, so we frequently use TokBox for team video chat.  Since we have a big release coming out next week, we needed to relieve a little stress. My bright idea was to do a remote Crossfit-style workout.  Since we suck wind pretty bad for a fitness site, we scaled it [...]

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Lifehacker names Gyminee one of “Six Best Exercise Planning and Tracking Tools”

May 17, 2009

A special thanks to all of the Lifehacker readers for helping name Gyminee one of the “Six Best Exercise Planning and Tracking Tools”. We are honored to be on this list with other great companies, including Garmin and Nike+.
You can see the full article by following this link: Six Best Exercise Planning and Tracking [...]

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Recent Downtime

April 24, 2009

We are fixing some things on the Gyminee site.  We care very much about giving you a great experience, and are not pleased with how the site is responding.  Here is a little info on what is going on behind the scenes:

We are growing very quickly and in the process of moving our servers to [...]

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“Biggest Loser” Using Gyminee as Virtual Biggest Loser Ranch

April 21, 2009

The following post is a guest post from Maggie King, a contestant on the Season 5 of “The Biggest Loser” and Gyminee user:
As the year anniversary of “The Biggest Loser” Season 5 finale approached on April 15, I found it necessary to take a good hard look at the past 12 months of my life.  [...]

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Calendar Subscriptions

April 7, 2009

Your Calendar allows you to see a high-level overview of your tracking behavior, and it also allows you to schedule your Workouts and Meals if you are a PRO user.
This PRO functionality has been greatly improved in a couple of ways.
Calendar Subscriptions
The new “Subscribe To My Calendar” feature allows you to subscribe to an ical [...]

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Fresh Features

March 25, 2009

1) New Challenges
Challenges have become one of the most popular features on Gyminee, and they have really done a great job at helping people stay motivated and see results – users have recorded over 48,800 pounds lost in Weight Loss challenges to date. To help continue this trend, we have added some new styles of [...]

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Native iPhone App – Sneak Peek 2

March 20, 2009

Here’s the second sneak peek at our upcoming native iPhone application. In this installment we’ll look at the BodyTracker, which allows you to keep track of things like your Body Weight, Body Fat %, Waist Size, etc.

Important Info. at a Glance
When you first pull up the BodyTracker, the most important information is immediately available. This [...]

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Fish Is Good; Mercury Is Bad

March 18, 2009

There has been lots of great discussion on the Gyminee message boards recently about the importance of fish consumption and sources of inexpensive, quality protein.  No big surprise that canned tuna, a long-time staple in the American diet, comes to mind in both instances.
At first glance, canned tuna appears to be an ideal source of [...]

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New Stuff (And a PRO Coupon!)

March 9, 2009

There were a few changes added over the weekend. In case you haven’t noticed them yet, here’s a brief overview of the highlights.
Daily Actions

When you visit your Locker Room you will now see three bright buttons. The purpose of adding these buttons is to make it very clear to users (especially new users) what the [...]

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Native iPhone App – Sneak Peek 1

February 16, 2009

We’re very excited to finally have something to show on our upcoming native iPhone application. In this sneak peek I’ll give an overview of the Nutrition section – which gives you the ability to track the foods you eat using Gyminee’s database of nearly 100,000 food items. Without further ado, here is a quick showcase [...]

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