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JC’s Fitness VLOG – Is Your Fitness Journey Healthy? – Video
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MapMyFITNESS Surpasses 10 Million Member Mark, Arranging Additional $3 Million in Financing as its "Le Tour" Challenge …
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AUSTIN, Texas, July 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --MapMyFITNESS, a health and fitness technology company powering the Internet's largest and fastest growing community of fitness enthusiasts, is excited to announce its community has surpassed 10 million registered members and is arranging $3 million in financing from Square 1 Bank. This news comes as MapMyFITNESS' second annual Le Tour Challenge begins in conjunction with the Tour de France.
The Le Tour Challenge gives cyclists around the world the opportunity to compete against other athletes during the 2012 Tour de France and allows users to choose the distance and ride that suits them with the chance to win over $55,000 in prizes, including a trip to Paris. More information on the Challenge can be found at http://www.mapmyride.com/tdf/.
"The 2011 Le Tour Challenge was such a success that we knew we had to bring it back for 2012," said Richard Jalichandra, chief executive officer of MapMyFITNESS. "Participants can follow the most exciting cycling event in the world and challenge themselves, with the chance to win more than $55,000 in prizes."
The proposed Square 1 Bank financing, coupled with the $9 million Series B funding from Austin Ventures, Milestone Ventures, Competitor Group, Inc. and The Running Specialty Group, LLC announced earlier in the year, will help MapMyFITNESS continue to advance its leadership position in the global online and mobile fitness application markets and further develop its offerings. The company's fast-growing business model has doubled revenue each of the past four years and is projected to nearly triple in 2012.
"We're thrilled to partner with Square 1 Bank to help continue our growth and expansion," said Jalichandra. "After surpassing the 10 million registered user mark including 4 million in only the past six months our goal is to keep innovating ways for our members to keep improving their fitness, nutrition and overall health."
Earlier this year MapMyFITNESS announced a completely rebuilt platform with several new features including an innovative capability called Courses, which allows users to "check-in" during workouts, and an advanced integration of Google Maps API for Business, which provides route details like traffic patterns and temperature in real-time on iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Mobile or iPad devices.
MapMyFITNESS has been recognized by some of the world's most credible authorities as the premier fitness application, including TIME's "50 Best Apps list in 2012" (the only fitness app named this year), Runner's World UK's "Best Running App of 2012," About.com Reader's Choice "Best Running App" in 2012 and a consistent top five ranking in iTunes' Health and Fitness category. More than 200,000 health and fitness activities are logged each day by MapMyFITNESS users across 40 different sports not just running and cycling.
About MapMyFITNESSHeadquartered in Austin, Texas, MapMyFITNESS is a health and fitness technology company that powers the internet's largest social network of fitness enthusiasts and provides a comprehensive suite of enterprise health solutions. The MapMyFITNESS network of websites and mobile applications -- MapMyRUN, MapMyRIDE, MapMyWALK, MapMyHIKE, MapMyFITNESS, MapMyTRI, MapMyMOUNTAIN and MapMyDOGWALK offer more than 9 million fitness enthusiasts the ability to record and store their daily running, cycling, walking or hiking routes in an online database or map out tomorrow's path. Users get access to a searchable database of over 45 million global routes, online training tools, fitness calculators, nutrition tracking, comprehensive event listings, and the ability to easily share their activity with friends. The company's mobile smartphone apps use built-in GPS technology to enable users to record and chart their daily fitness activities and routes. For more information, please visit mapmyfitnessinc.com.
About Square 1 BankSquare 1 Bank is a full service commercial bank dedicated exclusively to serving the financial needs of the venture capital community and entrepreneurs in all stages of growth and expansion. Square 1's expertise, focus and strong capital base provide solid support for its clients, offering tailored products and solutions for the particular needs of entrepreneurs. From the latest in convenient, technology-based banking to the banker you'll know as a partner, Square 1 believes that a banking relationship should be anticipatory, responsive and active. Square 1 has offices coast to coast in Austin, Boston, Boulder, Durham, McLean, New York, San Diego, Santa Monica, Seattle, and Silicon Valley. For more information, visit http://www.square1bank.com.
CONTACT: Melissa Miller, Edelman for MapMyFITNESS melissa.miller@edelman.com 512-634-3652
Withings Wi-Fi Body Scale
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"A scale that tweets your weight? No thank you!" The biggest misconception about the Withings Wi-Fi Body Scale ($159, direct)that its signature feature is it posts your weight on Twitter, which it can do but doesn't have tois how it miraculously landed in my hands for testing. No one else at PCMag was willing to risk public humiliation to try out a bathroom scale except me. And it's a shame that so much attention about the scale centers on Twitter, because the Withings Wi-Fi Body Scale has one of the best displays I've ever seen. Smart and intuitive slider bars demystify body fat percent readouts. Weight, measured in imperial pounds, kilos, or even stones, appears in large, easy-to-see numbers. And the companion Web account (free) makes understanding your weight and other personal health metrics easier than ever, particular because you can send them to your doctor in a few clicks.
The Withings Wi-Fi Body Scale costs almost three times what I paid for my own non-Wi-Fi enabled bathroom scale (a Tanita BF-679W), which gives me just as much information about my weight and body fat, but doesn't automatically log and track it over time. That's the real benefit of a Wi-Fi scale, and it's a must-have feature for people who need to get a firm grasp on their fitness, diet, or overall health. For 30 bucks less, the Fitbit Aria Wi-Fi Smart Scale ($129.95, direct, 4 tars) is nearly as good as the Withings scale, though the latter's display just can't be beat.
Design and SetupWithings Wi-Fi Body Scale, available in navy or white, looks stylish, sleek, and sophisticated. The square glass slab has a thin profile and stands a scant 1.25 inches tall (0.9 inches, plus the scale's feet). The body measures 12.6 inches in other side. The underside contains a panel for four AAA batteries and a micro USB socket, used during setup.
Before you can use the scale, you have to set up a Web account with the usual information: email, username, and password. Then you need to download a small executable file onto your Windows, Mac, or Linux computer. After that, you connect the scale to your computer using a USB cable. The software walks you through connecting the Withings scale to your Wi-Fi signal. The whole process takes about five minutes.
The Web account is where you add more details about yourselfyou can import previous weight charts, for exampleand set up profiles for other users. Up to eight people can use the same scale, and each user can choose whether to make his or her information visible to other users.
When the setup is complete, just hop on the scale. The rest is automatic. Every time you weigh yourself, your weight, body fat percent, and body mass index (BMI) are logged in your Web account.
Withings Scale and Web Account UseEvery time you log in, the website shares tips and information about fat, lean mass, and other metrics the site records to help you better understand what they mean and why they're important. You can suppress the tips, but I found them surprisingly informative and presented in an educated way. It's rich information about personal health, not pop magazine tips for a flatter tummy in six weeks.
The scale itself is remarkably intuitive. Step on and it works, with no need to wake it up first. Withings' display is one of the best I've seen on a home bathroom scale. The scale indicates, visually, when it's busy calculating or sending information, the same way the Fitbit Aria scale does. It shows three main readouts, weight, fat percent, and BMI, but also includes a small bar below the number pointing to your point on that scale. The healthy range for your height, age, and sex appears highlighted. If the pointer hits within the highlighted area, you know you're relatively on target. The display demystifies all the numbers and percentiles that can otherwise be confusing to someone without much medical knowledge.
Another smart and intuitive feature in this scale is how it handles uncertainty regarding which user steps on it. If you have two users with similar metrics, the Withings scale may not know one from the other. So it asks by showing the two users' initials on the display, one to the left and one to the right, and flashing a foot icon above each. Stand on just your left foot to tell it you're the person on the left. That's pretty neat.
As much as the website has great customization options and loads of features, I encountered a few oddities and annoyances while trying to manipulate some of them. For example, to log in, you have to click through two or three pages before you actually reach the page with your stats, a minor nuisance.
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Working until 70 could ease retirement finances
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By Susan Tompor
Many Baby Boomers head to work each day and wonder, "So what's the number?"
How many more years do they need to keep working? It turns out that if many of us could just keep working until age 70, we could be OK in retirement, according to a new study.
Sure, 70 isn't the magic number that most people want to hear. Even so, knowing any number might be reassuring, if you're worried that you'd never be able to stop working.
"My intention was to make people feel better," said Alicia Munnell, director of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
After the Great Recession, more people fear the idea of retirement. But Munnell said many people will be able to retire - if they work a bit longer. "It's better to stay with your full-time job if you can," she said.
The trick is to delay dipping into savings as long as possible.
Munnell, a retirement expert, spoke to me by phone. I had to bring up a topic that's near and dear to many salaried auto retirees. What about those lump-sum offers?
A lump-sum payment in retirement is being offered to salaried retirees at General Motors and as early as August to many salaried retirees at Ford. (Not yet to hourly folks, but some say that could happen one day, too.)
She didn't mince words, calling the idea "terrible." She said she's hoping that retirees "don't fall for the trick" of accepting a lump sum.
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Brown Trafton achieves personal dream at trials
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In accomplishing her task of winning a spot at the London Olympic Games at last weeks U.S. Trials for track and field, Stephanie Brown Trafton took an uncertain situation and molded it into the fulfillment of a personal dream.
She was nervous about the performance, she said on June 26, but in both the qualifying and final rounds, she worked past her feelings to end up with her best throw of each round on her last throw for that round.
This was the hardest meet of my life as an elite level athlete, Brown Trafton said of the Trials. I had some trepidation going in because the conditions were wet and slippery and I had performed poorly at a meet in the same place a few weeks earlier.
Brown Trafton not only won the U.S. Olympic Trials, but her performance was a 180 in a meet at which she had competed on the very same field just over three weeks earlier.
At the Prefontaine Meet, also held at Hayward Field on June 1, Brown Trafton struggled so much that she failed to put up a mark in each of her attempts.
This time, her throws landed farther as each round passed in the qualifying round, earning her a spot in the finals.
I was very relieved to make it to the final round and felt like my confidence was back, Brown Trafton said.
In the finals on June 24, her first throw was the farthest among the field of competitors. Her marks over the next two rounds dwindled, and she fouled in the fourth and fifth rounds.
Her final throw, however, easily surpassed all others at 21310.
Besides reaching her third Olympics, this trip has extra meaning for Brown Trafton.
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Success in High Heels Cocktail Evening 18 February 2012 – Everyone has a Dream! – Video
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