Fitness apps are a great way to help keep you motivated. But those apps are often one-sided, and only track your steps, your exercise, or your calorie intake. Now Wahoo Fitness and MyFitnessPal have joined forces to combine some of those elements.
Wahoo Fitness devices and apps such as the Blue HR heart rate monitor, RFLKT bike computer and Balance Bluetooth Smartphone Scale can now get the calorie data from MyFitnessPal. The MyFitnessPal app is a free app that lets you track calories on its website and app by entering the food you eat. The app stores the foods you eat on a regular basis so it’s a matter of clicking on the box next to that food, such as toast. It also makes it easy to add foods on a one-off or regular rotation basis.
“Accurate calorie count and instant weight feedback is instrumental in reaching your fitness goals,” says Chip Hawkins, CEO of Wahoo Fitness, in a company statement. “With Thanksgiving and the rest of the holiday season, it’s more important than ever to stay on track. Everyone is pointlessly counting steps and inaccurately counting calories, with Wahoo’s hardware the MyFitnessPal community will not only be generating more precise data, but they will be generating the usable data, the data that actually matters when you’re tracking your results and working hard to reach your goals.”
Wahoo Fitness Official Website
MyFitnessPal Official Website
Under Armour has taken fitness monitoring in a new direction with its newly announced Armour 39 system, the first-of-its kind performance monitoring. This reportedly tracks “willpower,” providing a score that tells users exactly how hard they’ve worked during a training session. This take the usual calorie counter to a new level.
There are plenty of wearable devices that can track activity as well as calorie intake. However the actual tracking isn’t actually accurate because these devices – including heart rate monitors – can’t determine an individual’s specific metabolism and thus can’t really determine how fast one is really burning calories. While the devices aren’t technically guessing, the results aren’t 100 percent accurate, and this is why some users don’t see the results they think they should be getting. 
