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How Twitter can improve your health & fitness

Posted on 21. Jul, 2009 by admin in Twitter

We found out the other day that Twitter can help you be more productive, today we look at health and fitness apps to see if Twitter can improve your health (of course you actually have to work out, Twitter’s not that good. yet.) We also take a look at the top health & fitness twitterers for you to follow.

Web Apps

1. Twackit – You can use Twackit to keep a record of any metric you like, such as your weight, distance ran etc. Tweets and records are organised by way of hash tags.

2. Tweet a Run – Looks to be a great web app for runners, I cant wait to try it out (Im currently injured!). You login after a run, select a distance ran with sliding controls and save it – you run gets tweeted out with a hash tag and the app keeps a record of all your runs for you.

3. Tweet what you eat – Twitter comes in for stick sometimes about the amount of people tweeting about what they just ate, well now there is a whole app for it! Tweet what you eat acts as a food diary and logs the calories of what you enter for people on calorie controlled diets.

4. Food Feed – Another way to keep track of your eating habits, Users get their own profile page which records the food you have eaten.

5. Ugomo – An advanced app for letting you log different types of workouts. You can log, type of sport, duration, heart rate, time, date and view numerous graphs and statistics from your account.

6. Tweetplot – A simple service for logging metrics from which you can then generate a graph.

7. GtFtr – An app to log various forms of exercise

8. I did my bestest – “Tweet your distance, time, and notes and we’ll chart your data, compare to other users, etc.”

9. W8Track – Keep a record of weight (loss) via this simple web app

10. Twitfitter – A Ning based, fitness community for twitter users. “TwitFitter is the place for fitness enthusiasts and fitness professionals to motivate each other to work out, stay healthy, and get fitter.”

Top Health & Fitness Twitter users

1. @Goodhealth – Health.com magazine’s twitter feed

2. @Highwindfitness – Promoting, encouraging, and educating fitness, health, and nutrition

3. @FastMuscleGain – Muscle gain ,weight loss and fitness expert

4. @Health_Coach – My passion is natural healing using the latest in nutritional and dietary interventions

5. @JillianMichaels – Jillian Michaels Online – Visit the website of TVs Toughest Trainer. You don’t need to be a contestant on The Biggest Loser to reach your potential!

6. @FitnessMagazine – FITNESS Magazine: Changing the conversation from ’skinny’ to ‘healthy’ and helping you embrace fitness as a lifestyle

7. @lisajohnson – Fitness Industry since ‘97, Owner of Modern Pilates since ‘99. Fitness blogger, Greenie, Mom, Photographer, Golfer, Wanna-Be Fashionista, Happy Almost Always

8. @JoeGigantino – itness, Motivation, Wellness, Inspiration, Workout, Health Clubs, Communicator, Visionary, Entrepreneur, Family, Health, Nutrition, Love, Passion, Purpose

9. @runnersworld – Twitter account for Runnersworld.com magazine.

10. @WomensHealthMag – Women’s Health is your ultimate guide to looking and feeling great. We’ll bring you the latest in health, fitness, sex, beauty and more

11. @MensHealthMag – Men’s Guide to Fitness, Health, Weight Loss, Nutrition, Sex, Style, and Guy Wisdom

12. @FitBusyPeople – Ultra-busy father of two, busy exec, fat loss coach and certified trainer helping people change their lives w/fast & effective workouts and fitness advice

13. @JamesWorkout – I am a 43 year old hardgainer . Exercising like a madman. I Tweet all my workouts ,its a bit much but it does motivate me .NEVER TO LATE!

14. @BodyForWife – Fitness author of Body for Wife: The Family Guy’s Guide to Getting in Shape. Sarcastic, witty, and politically incorrect health, diet and exercise advice

15. @losethefatnow – am an Indepentant BeachBody Coach currently going thru P90X. Check out my site I have a free one on one video coaching program

16. @LegitMuscle – My blog Legit Muscle teaches you how to use diet, supplements and training to maximize muscle gains and get in the shape you want.

17. @skwigg – Fitness blogger. Dog mom. Work in TV. Love scifi, MMA, kettlebells, TRX, Pilates, BlackBerry, Mac. Also, I run in flip-flops and spill things.

18. @tomvenuto – Author. Passionate about bodybuilding, fitness, personal development, writing, reading, science, psychology and helping you get healthy and LEAN the natural way

19. @Fitcoach2007 – Creator of YourWeightLossMentor.com, Husband, Father, Christian, Fitness Wellness Anti-Aging Coach, Healthy Cooking, Firefighter Paramedic, Internet Marketer

20. @lomak1985 – Fitness is very important to me, and I like to help others get in shape for free

That concludes our roundup – as always if you know of more health & fitness apps or websites we have missed please leave links in the comments.

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