Tracking Weight with Fitdigits

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Track your weight on your Fitdigits apps. Get the most accurate caloric burn while tracking activities, understand your patterns and body better, and even set goals around your weight too! We get weight data from a variety of our partners, but also offer the ability to manually enter, edit and delete entries too. To manually … Read more

Fitdigits and Marathon Training

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Testimonial from Fitdigits User – Robert C. I have been using Fitdigits with a Garmin heart rate monitor and foot pod on my iPod touch for 6 months while in training to complete a marathon. Fitdigits gives me heart rate, pace, distance and a map of my run. I am 60 years old and have not trained … Read more

Insufficient sleep undermines dietary efforts to reduce adiposity.

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In other words: The quality of your sleep has a direct impact on your ability to lose weight. Getting a good night sleep helps you lose fat! ( I admit had to look up ‘adiposity’ … big word for FAT ) In Insufficient Sleep Thwarts Weight Loss Efforts Medscape Medical News reports on new research … Read more

Why monitor heart rates in your iPhone fitness and health app?

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I recently came across a website, jackis.com, that did a nice job of highlighting three good reasons to track heart rate: safety, effectiveness and incentive. I would suggest one more accuracy. If you want accurate an accurate calculation of calories burned during your workout, it needs to be derived from your heart rate.

Fitdigits Wins CTIA Hot for Holidays

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Fitdigits is proud to announce that it was awarded the Hot for Holidays Award by CTIA Wireless for the category of Fitness Buff. The award honors the top mobile techie gadget with the most innovative and cutting-edge mobile consumer electronics product and application for the 2010 holiday season. A panel of mobile CE media and … Read more

Nutritional Tips for a Healthy Recovery Phase

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23 September 2010 By USAT Coach Andrew Johnson (featured in the TrainingPeaks Official Blog) Overtraining is often seen as pushing your body too far in training, but it can also be due to poor recovery. That is, had the athlete been more attentive to their recovery, they may not have pushed their body into that … Read more