Choose Your Fitness Challenge on Fleetly.com [ARTICLE]

Fleetly weightsTrue fitness is multidimensional. Runners need strength and flexibility to improve and stay injury free. Body builders know that strength starts at their core, but they also benefit by distributing loads to legs, chest, arms, back and shoulders. You can keep your fitness balanced, whether you are a gym rat, endurance athlete or a home fitness enthusiast, when you use the motivation and tracking tools on Fleetly.com.

What is Fleetly.com?

Fleetly.com makes achieving and maintain fitness goals more fun by incorporating social media elements and some friendly competition. You can access Fleetly.com with a web browser or by downloading the free iPhone app. Once you’ve set up a profile, you can link your Fleetly.com account to Runkeeper, Nike+ and Wi-Fi body scales made by Withings.

Getting Started with Fleetly.com

Fleetly.com offers two easy options for setting up an account. You can log in with Facebook-be sure to carefully choose who can see your Fleetly.com activities-or you can create a unique Fleetly.com profile with your name and email address. Edit your personal settings to control who can see you and your workout data on Fleetly.com and to change the kinds of communications and notifications Fleetly.com sends you.

Logging Your Activity

If you already have a regular exercise routine, look through the list of workouts on Fleetly.com to see if there is one that matches. You’ll even find popular P90X workouts, class-style exercise programs such as Zumba and Yoga as well as workouts designed by Fleetly’s fitness advisors. If nothing exactly matches, create your own workout by building a list of individual exercises.

Desperately Seeking Motivation

If exercise isn’t already a habit for you, or if circumstances threaten your usual routine, Fleetly.com offers lots of suggestions and motivation. Workouts and exercises are divided into subcategories to help you browse based on a targeted body area, training goals for a specific sport or even traveler-friendly heart-rate boosters. Each exercise, whether part of a workout or listed individually, comes with complete instructions so you can make sure you are doing it right. Most also have video demonstrations.

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You’ll also find a variety of fitness challenges to keep you moving. Some are based on regional, organized events, and others are “open” challenges created by Fleetly.com users. For example, compete to see who can do the most workouts or pushups in a year, challenge yourself to run 100 (or 1,000) miles, or follow a three-week workout plan to see if you can do your first pull-up. Complete a challenge and you’ll earn a medal to proudly display on your home page.

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Earning Points

Fleetly.com doesn’t clearly explain its point system, but points add up as you complete exercises and workouts. Think of it as a way to level the playing field so you can more fairly gauge your fitness level against someone else’s.

Good to Know

The point system must somehow incorporate calories burned, but the site doesn’t ever give you a number. Since workout execution and individual burn rates can vary greatly, you might be better off not obsessing about calories in and calories out. You can best use Fleetly.com to help you stay active while also keeping an eye on your weight.

If you are looking for a specific exercise, you may have better luck using the search field rather than browsing through lists. In general, the site seems to be a little buggy, and the developer’s blog is full of cautions, fixes and updates trying to make it better. Have patience for now, and Fleetly.com should become a website and app “fit” for pumping you up.