Collabofit

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.

This is a good top 10 list of strategies to lose weight and keep it off, over the long term. Interestingly, most of these are areas that Collabofit is going to try to help you implement.

For many people weight loss is a chronic endeavor. All too often the shedding of pounds is a temporary event followed by a steady regain of lost weight. Most fad diets are unsuccessful in the long run because they fail to address the multi-faceted nature of what successful, permanent weight loss entails. Luckily, research has revealed many invaluable strategies which can help increase your odds of permanent weight loss. While no one article can possibly cover this vast subject, we have provided links to excellent weight loss programs and books which are backed by clinical research, and can significantly help you in your quest. We also encourage you to browse through our hand picked “best of the net” links (to the right) to learn more about the best strategies you can incorporate for long term weight loss success.

THE DIET CHANNEL’S
TOP 10 STRATEGIES
FOR PERMANENT WEIGHT LOSS

1. Exercise - It’s nothing new, but exercise is probably the most important predictor of whether you will succeed at long term weight loss and weight loss maintenance. In order for exercise to be helpful in weight loss, you should strive for a minimum of five - 30 minute sessions per week. The good news is that recent research has shown that three - 10 minute sessions in a day are as good as one - 30 minute session. This helps many in combating the old “no time for exercise” excuse. Be certain to find something you enjoy. You’ll be more apt to stick with it. Try walking with a friend, joining an intramural sports league, participating in outings with a group like The Sierra Club, or trying some classes at your local gym. Once you give exercise a chance, you will begin to enjoy its positive benefits on your psyche as well - you will literally become “hooked”.

Read the rest at the Diet Channel.

Welcome to Collabofit. Pardon the dust. Or lack of it. The general goal of Collabofit is to utilize the great community on the Internet to help each other get more fit. Together.

Utilizing all the great Web 2.0(tm) features such as tags, AJAX, heat maps, friendly user interfaces, Collabofit aims to become the easiest to use place to keep track of your weight, BMI, goals and how you are comparing to the rest of the community. For motivation’s sake. “We’re all in this together.”

So, if you have any suggestions, or would like to help out, please leave a comment below. Or, you can register and start posting on this blog if you have ideas about how we can make this the best next-generation fitness resource on the net.