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So, we now have rollerblading as an online fitness activity for which you can get points. Just in time for winter…

Photo by altuwa

The top 5 slots are getting some fierce competition…

This week, andymc has taken the lead.

If you’d like an invite to Collabofit, leave a comment and we’ll see if we can hook you up.

We’ve just pushed a new build of both the front-end website and the backend API server that fixes a number of RSS bugs, fixes Free member display of summary stats, and adds the thousands separator back in where appropriate.

You can now enter stats for both lunges and squats, as per user request. Lots more are coming soon…

We’re now displaying the top 50 members and their points rankings. Of course, as of today, there are a grand total of… 17 active members. But we’re growing rather rapidly, so we expect to see that list maxed out pretty soon.

As always, let us know if you see anything amiss, or if you have a suggestion for improving the site.

You can see an example of how a RSS feed can be integrated into a WordPress sidebar on my site - Gabriel, where I’m using my Latest Stats RSS feed to automatically update my blog whenever I enter a new stat. I’m using the SimplePie WordPress RSS plugin to read the feed.

Thanks,
Gabriel - http://collabofit.com/members/gserafini/

This would have earned him 30,000 Collabofit points. Too bad he’s too young to join… hahaahah. Dang.

Lu Di, 6, does pushups as other young kungfu students watch at a kungfu school in Central China’s Henan Province July 26, 2006. According to school president Shi Yongdi, Lu did 10,000 pushups in three hours and twenty minutes four days ago. Since he shows so much promise, Shi says the school will waive his tuition for ten years.

By the way, that equals somewhere around 1.2 seconds per pushup. 50 pushups per minute, for 200 minutes in a row. Fierce.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/photo/2006-07/27/content_651249.htm

(via Digg)

We just pushed a new build and are excited to announce the following new features:

• RSS feeds for all activities
• New activities have been added - Yoga, Steps and… Sledgehammer!
• Target weight goals can now be added, and you’ll see how long you’ve got to lose (or gain) those extra pounds. Or kilograms.
• Team Manager badges. You can now see who the manager of a team is because they’ve got a gold star.
• Link to add a new activity entry from each View Activity page
• Weigh-in history graphics show your target weight

Some of the bugs we fixed in this build:

• A nasty rounding bug where when you put in a number with a decimal that was bigger than .5 it would add 1 to the total.
• Dates are correctly editable again.
• Emails are correctly added to the system on new user sign-up. Existing users will get a message to update their email addresses on their My Account page.
• Lots of layout fixes and improvements

We hope you like the updates. Keep the feedback coming.

After a good number of weeks of active, hard-core development, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve now gone LIVE with Collabofit.com. It is currently available by invitation only, although that will probably change soon (around the end of September is our best guess right now).

So, check out the Teams page and browse through some of the public member profiles (such as gserafini, zerocool and tickbw ).

Check it out, and let us know what you think so far. Keep in mind this is a work in progress.

We’re really excited about the flavor of personal fitness that is being promoted by Health Hacks — a lot of it is just about taking personal responsibility for your own self and accepting that you can in fact do something to improve your own level of fitness, and that the only sustainable methods are ones that you can live with easily for the long term.

The Health Hacks Podcast started in the summer of 2006 as an outgrowth of Chris Brogan’s podcast Fat Guy Gets Fit. When Executive Producer Kevin Kennedy-Spaien came on board, health writers Jimmy Moore and Reinhard Engels were brought in to round out the show. The first formal episode of the newly retitled show premiered on August 30, 2006.

Check it out: Health Hacks Podcast. We’re subscribed.

This is a good set of tips for improving your abdominal region fitness. Most importantly, start easy and slow, then build up over time as you feel stronger.

The simple 2 step process to gaining six pack abs is as follows: strengthen your abdominal muscles and lose body fat. The concept is simple, but putting it into action is not. It will take dedication, willpower, patience and time to get a six pack but in the end, the effort is well worth it. Here is some info on the process.

http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Six-Pack-Abs