Fitness Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Three new apps for a better workout

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 12th, 2012)

A trio of apps have come out recently that will give your spring workout a boost: Faster ($1.99): This app, shown at right, is geared toward those who exercise outdoors and relies on GPS to be effective. You can set a distance and target time, and if your pace isn't matching the goals you set, ...

Apple granted 22 patents including trackpads, iPhone circuit boards and more

by Chris Rawson (Jan 18th, 2012)

Every once in a while Apple gets granted a big chunk of patents all at once, and this is one of those times. In addition to an Apple TV patent we've described in its own post, Apple's been granted over 20 other patents ranging from advanced trackpads to iPhone circuit board designs and ...

Jawbone refunds all UP purchasers whether they return the device or not

by Chris Rawson (Dec 8th, 2011)

Complaints over the durability (or lack thereof) of Jawbone's UP wristband have led the company to the unusual move of promising refunds to all customers -- even if they decline to return the device to Jawbone. Jawbone says current UP owners can keep their wristbands, according to TechCrunch, ...

RunKeeper gets a major upgrade

by Steven Sande (Oct 31st, 2011)

RunKeeper, the free fitness tracking app, just received a major upgrade that was announced this morning. The app has been gaining a lot of attention since mid-summer, when the company launched a Health Graph API that developers have been using to integrate RunKeeper capabilities into third-party ...

iHealth HS3 Bluetooth Body Scale reveals your weight to iOS

by Steven Sande (Oct 31st, 2011)

While my long-term quest for fitness has been stymied by a severe lack of motivation to actually get off of my butt and exercise, it comforts me to know that there are plenty of health-related iOS accessories to help me to at least track my stagnant weight. I own a Withings Scale, which sends ...

Fitbit releases iPhone app for fitness tracking on the go (Updated)

by Steven Sande (Oct 22nd, 2011)

Since the beginning of October, I've had a constant companion -- a Fitbit Ultra fitness tracker. It's been tracking my activity (or lack thereof), my sleep, and the number of flights of stairs that I go up and down. But until earlier this week, I had to visit the Fitbit website to enter in ...

Fitbit Ultra: An unobtrusive fitness tracker

by Steven Sande (Oct 3rd, 2011)

I'm a lazy blogger. For most of the day, my exercise consists of clicking and typing, then heading down the stairs for another cup of coffee. Over the years I've blogged about my various attempts and methods of tracking exercise and calorie intake with iOS apps, but I find that I get ...

Nike+ not working? Nike says sorry, and is working on the problem

by Chris Rawson (Sep 2nd, 2011)

If you're a Nike+ user and you've been experiencing issues with the service lately, you're not alone. According to TechCrunch, enough users have been having problems with Nike+ over the past few months that Nike has sent an email to users apologizing for the service's troubles and promising a ...

RunKeeper Pro goes free, RunKeeper Free goes bye-bye

by Chris Rawson (Apr 30th, 2011)

A member of the TUAW team recently received an email from RunKeeper saying that RunKeeper Free will no longer be supported. At first glance that might seem like fairly bad news, but it now appears that RunKeeper Pro has been re-branded as just plain "RunKeeper." Contrary to earlier reports that ...

Apple files patent application for Fitness Center App for iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Apr 28th, 2011)

[Headline and post revised to clarify that this is a patent application, not a patent award. Our apologies for the error. –Ed.] Patently Apple's got another USPTO-sponsored bulletin from the R&D Department in Cupertino, and this time it's for a brand new app designed to help you ...

Macworld Expo 2011: Runmeter runs on

by Mike Schramm (Feb 1st, 2011)

There are a lot of running apps available on the App Store, but Runmeter is a favorite of ours. It's incredibly full featured, and at US$4.99, it's also one of the most generously priced apps of this type. We got to meet up with Abvio CEO Steve Kusmer, a former executive who's translated his ...

BodyMedia introduces the Armband BW at CES, body monitoring for iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Jan 11th, 2011)

BodyMedia had quite a presence at CES last week, with one of their employees running around town and even jumping out of planes to show off the company's new product, the BodyMedia FIT Armband BW. I stopped by their booth to talk to company founder Ivo Stivoric about the product, and how it ...

Nike talks iPhone, running and its connected devices

by Mike Schramm (Jan 11th, 2011)

Nike was at CES last week to premiere its new Nike+ SportWatch GPS, a sports watch hooked up to GPS via TomTom-based technology, designed to work with the popular Nike+ system. While the idea of the watch is cool (it will track all of your runs, even if not hooked up to the GPS system right away), ...

Six awesome iOS exercise and dieting apps

by Steven Sande (Dec 27th, 2010)

Ahhh, the holidays. It's a time to reflect on the year, enjoy time with family and friends, and pack as much food into your body as possible while lazing on the couch watching the 17th rerun of A Christmas Story. Is it any wonder that a lot of us (especially those of us who can be considered ...

Road Tested: The Withings Scale, an Apple accessory you can stand on

by Steven Sande (Sep 15th, 2010)

In the Apple accessory ecosystem, there are thousands of different items for the Mac, iPhone, iPod, and iPad. Out of that huge world, I can think of only one accessory that you can actually stand on -- The Withings Connected Body Scale (US$159.00). I've had the pleasure of using one of these ...