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The problem with Health and Fitness apps?

  • 27-09-2014 12:36AM
    #1
    declan0872
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17 ✭


    Hi all,

    Im researching doing a Health and Fitness app for my FYP. But I'm trying to find out what is the problem, if they have any, with Health and Fitness apps?

    Cheers


Comments

  • #2
    dimcoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭dimcoin


    Sometimes i cant find the exercise i did that day.


  • #3
    IvoryTower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,825 ✭✭✭IvoryTower


    A lot of them give you an amount of calories burned for an exercise despite not knowing how hard you worked.


  • #4
    Lee_Torre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭Lee_Torre


    IvoryTower wrote: »
    A lot of them give you an amount of calories burned for an exercise despite not knowing how hard you worked.
    Exactly, some don't use your age, weight and fitness level to accurately calculate calories burned. They give the same calories burned for a 70 year old small man/woman as a 23 year old overweight man/woman.


  • #5
    mneylon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,742 ✭✭✭mneylon


    Food databases that are overly US-biased - which makes tracking what you've eaten awkward. Admittedly MyFitnessPal seems to have fixed that issue more than a lot of others.

    It's a very crowded space at the moment and getting more crowded all the time.

    Personally unless an app can support pulling in data from external sources I won't bother with it. So any app would need to be able to hook up with things like Fitbit

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