Comments on: Fitness Achievements, Where Are You?

By: George Titswoth

George Titswoth — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:01:54 +0000

AC, those are awesome! Thanks! I especially like the crunch track.

By: AC

AC — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:18:58 +0000

Just discovered your site yesterday. I’ll be using these to motivate myself:

1. Press Start- You haz decided 2 get n shaype… Gud job!
2. Best laid plans- Workout schedule devised
3. Wet feet- First day’s activities completed
4. Deep End- First week’s activities completed
5. Gold Star- Today’s activities complete
6. You’ve done well- Week’s activities completed
7. Than a whore in church- One entire month’s goals met
8. Where’re my toes?- Starting weight recorded
9. There they are!- 5lbs lost
10. Lovely handles- 10lbs lost
11. Nice profile- 15lbs lost
12. Sexy Bastard- 25lbs lost
13. Where’s Waldo?- Starting strength recorded
14. Kanye- Strength increased 25%
15. Superhero- Strength up 50%
16. Godkiller- Strength up 100%
17. Eater of worlds- Strength up 200%
18. Man boobs- complete 25 pushups in one day
19. Chest beef- complete 50 pushups in one day
20. Push down the world- complete 100 pushups in one day
21. Keg- Complete 25 crunches in one day
22. Box o’ booze- complete 50 crunches in one day
23. Six pack¬- complete 100 crunches in one day
24. The numbers!¬- 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 sit-ups and pushups
25. Yertle the Turtle- Walk one mile
26. Walkabout¬- Walk two miles
27. Strider- Walk five miles
28. Lift those heels!- Jog one mile
29. Con increased- Jog two miles
30. Watch out, Kevin- Jog five miles

By: George Titswoth

George Titswoth — Fri, 28 May 2010 03:02:21 +0000

The closest thing I know of is Daily Burn’s Challenge system. They have some opt-in “everyone wins” challenges that give you a little badge when you lose 5 lbs/10lb, etc. or do 100 miles of running. But I haven’t seen a system that just does it, though I haven’t really been looking in a while.

I am thinking about writing a little mobile app that hooks into daily burn, but adds a little extra layer of fun on it. If I ever get the time….

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 28 May 2010 01:40:51 +0000

yes this is such a wonderful idea.. I’ve been wishing for something like this for a long time now and I can’t find anything online. it would just be very motivating to have achievements for, lets say, doing 100 push ups in total, 1000 push ups etc.. things of this nature.. of course there would be the cheaters using the system because you can’t prove you did them but you’d just be cheating yourself. any websites coming out with this yet?

By: George Titswoth

George Titswoth — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:30:38 +0000

@Kathleen Sweet! I totally think us geeks (I would for sure) would walk that many miles just to get a silly virtual badge that says that. That would definitely be a grind, but a healthy grind.

@Ralph I have thought about that. I have thought a little bit about starting up a website/game/app like the *villes based around fitness. But I really don’t want to make a fitness website from scratch, no time for that, so I would probably just hook into an API of one of them. I think it would be something fun to have, give that little bit of extra motivation.

By: Ralph Loizzo

Ralph Loizzo — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:01:00 +0000

I think making an iphone app or mobile app on different platforms would be great.

Funny you came up with this idea – I was just discussing that with my wife a couple of weeks ago as well. Why not make life-goal seeking a lot more fun?

And proudly display the achievements on your facebook profile or web page?

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:25:30 +0000

How about

One DID just simply walk into Mordor – Walk 1779 miles (distance from Hobbiton to Mt. Doom – http://home.insightbb.com/~eowynchallenge/Walk/walk.html)