Cloud computing technology harnessed by new fitness application. When you're nursing a sore hamstring or injured wrist, a personal trainer can modify a workout plan to get your heart pumping without aggravating whatever ails you. Now there's Internet-connected exercise equipment that can do the same thing - plus give you quantitative fitness feedback, serve up music or a movie, and (someday soon) let you tweet your workout status to your followers.
Core Performance is using business rules software from IBM to automate the application of expertise gleaned by training elite athletes. The company is an offshoot of Athletes' Performance, which provides training, nutrition and physical therapy programs to professional athletes. While Athletes' Performance focuses on training its pro sports clientele, Core Performance is creating fitness programs and equipment geared for everyday people. Using IP-enabled exercise gear and cloud-based applications is key to its delivery model. "If we had 10 trainers, we could train them on the best methodology in the world. The FitBit Gets a Personal Fitness API. There is no shortage of great tools out there to help you get in shape and keep track of your progress. You may be familiar with Nike’s Nike+ system, that is heavily integrated with the iOS platform.
It offers a great deal of data, but if you’re like me, it wasn’t enough to really rave about. Helpful, yes. Impressive, potentially. But FitBit, with its new FitBit API, has the potential to be much more. FitBit is this great little clip-on attachment that you can attach to your body and it’ll track you similarly to how the Nike+ does. FitBit, not resting on their laurels, has added an API. The FitBit API uses oAuth for authorization and is RESTful. I’ve been waiting a year or so for Nike to add an API to their Nike+ product. Hopefully, we’ll start seeing FitBit mashups rolling out, soon. Both comments and pings are currently closed. Health Graph | RunKeeper.
RunKeeper builds a fitness network with Health Graph API. RunKeeper, which began as a way to track runs for users, is now poised to become a full-fledged fitness network with the release of a Health Graph API that lets developers and device makers tap into its growing data set and community. The API opens up the RunKeeper experience enabling a host of apps and devices to publish to RunKeeper’s FitnessFeed and contribute to its Health Graph. That will allow its 6 million users to start integrating a much wider array of fitness data into their health history, allowing them to better understand how their progress changes over time and how it compares to others.
And it positions RunKeeper as a destination for the growing number of people who are using websites, apps and devices to help improve their health. RunKeeper had previously integrated with select devices like the Fitbit Tracker and the Wi-Fi Body Scale from Withings. RunKeeper Adds New Integration To Its Health Graph In Hopes Of Building 'The Facebook Of Fitness'
You may have heard about the social graph and the interest graph, but what about the health graph? Thanks to RunKeeper, this term may soon become an oft-used part of your vocabulary. RunKeeper, for those unfamiliar, was founded three years ago as a simple iPhone app and a small online fitness community designed to help runners and other fitness enthusiasts employ smartphone technology to better track, measure, and improve their fitness. Since then, RunKeeper has expanded across mobile platforms, growing into a community of 6 million strong. Over the years, the startup has integrated with various gadgets and accessories, like a WiFi body scale tracker, sleep monitoring devices, and heart rate transmitters — all as part of an effort to give people a unified resource to aggregate the various health and fitness services, devices, and apps they use on a daily basis — before blasting this information out to friends, family, and competitors over various social channels.