Sunday Q&A: Why MYTRAK Should Be Your Track

Reed Hanoun has dedicated his professional career to helping individuals and organizations get fit and live healthier lives, and in 2004, Reed seized an opportunity to shift from managing injury to helping people avoid them. That was the catalyst for founding MYTRAK Health System Inc.

Today the MYTRAK Health System Inc. is dedicated to standardizing the process of making people healthy – guiding success by engaging and motivating people to stay physically active at home, at work and at play through the use of our state-of-the-art technology. We spoke to Reed about what MYTRAK can do for you. Continue reading Sunday Q&A: Why MYTRAK Should Be Your Track

Slim Coach by MYTRAK Monitors Activity

Each day, all your activity adds up. But how much is the total of all your activity? It’s not easy to figure out what all that walking and hustling means without some help. The NBC show “The Biggest Loser” deployed Slim Coach to give those daily totals to participants. Now The Biggest Loser Slim Coach, powered by MYTRAK technology is available for you to track your daily activity.

The Biggest Loser Slim Coach, powered by MYTRAK will be in Costco and Best Buy locations on January 2. That’s just in time to start your New Year’s resolutions.

The handheld device is smaller than most cell phones and alerts you to your activity levels. It’ll tell you when you have an active day, or when you need to take another few laps to keep up the pace to a healthy lifestyle.

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Made in America: Strength Squared Power Sleds

Typically sleds are designed to make hauling a heavy load over a set distance a little bit easier. Whether that load is a deer dragged out of the woods by a hunter, a kid’s sled barreling down a hill or Santa’s sled landing on a roof, the goal of moving a body of mass over a surface with ease is the same. But there are a few sleds made with the opposite goal in mind – making the task of moving a body of mass harder. These ‘power sleds’ are used in fitness training to build strength and stamina. Strength Squared, with locations in both Las Vegas, NV and Denver, CO, has only been making power sleds since 2010, but they have made a big splash in the market with an appearance on the NBC show, “The Biggest Loser” earlier this year.

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TV Show Inspires Game That Will be on TV Show

In a unique twist, THQ’s popular video game The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout video game will be actually make it’s the show that inspired it. The game will be featured on tonight’s episode of the hit NBC series, with an all-new, downloadable endurance challenge. Following the episode, owners of the game will be able to download the “TV Show Challenge” content for free for the Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect.

During the episode, five contestants will participate in four challenging rounds of exercise moves, lasting five minutes each, taken directly from the TV Show Challenge. Contestants’ scores will be based on how well they perform the exercises in the time allotted.

As an added bonus, for 24 hours following the May 10 episode, the “Pilates” pack will be available free (a $4.99 value) on Xbox LIVE Marketplace for The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout.

The Biggest Loser Official Video Game Website
The Biggest Loser Official Website

Biggest Loser Arrives for Kinect and Wii

It is official, there is no reason not to want to be a loser, and by that we mean a big loser, as in The Biggest Loser. Based on the hit reality series The Biggest Loser health and fitness games for the new Kinect for the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii have arrived.

The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout for Kinect for Xbox 360 features a dynamic routine of exercise moves that are adjusted to how well the players do. And The Biggest Loser Challenge for the Nintendo Wii offers its own challenging ultimate workout that uses resistance bands as well as a stability ball. Players – if players is actually accurate considering that the idea is to get a workout – can work out with a friend in 4, 8 and even 12-week programs, which can be customized from more than 125 exercise moves, including cardio boxing.

Since working out alone won’t keep you in shape, both titles include a library of 50 recipes and a wealth of valuable nutritional tips to keep up a healthy lifestyle.

The Biggest Loser for Kinect and Wii

More Details Revealed on Biggest Loser Video Game

THQ is encouraging gamers to get off the couch; in fact it is telling gamers to essentially “drop and give the Xbox 360 or Wii 20.” This week THQ unveiled a bit more details about the upcoming game versions of the popular TV series The Biggest Loser, which will be available in upcoming titles for the Nintendo Wii as well as the Microsoft Xbox 360.

Over the next few weeks the company has promised to showcase a few of the exercises that will be available with the new game. These are based on the same exercises that contestants use on TV under the supervision of trainer Bob Harper. This week it was revealed that two of the routines would include Lunges and Glute Lifts.

The Biggest Loser Challenge for the Nintendo Wii, and The Biggest Loser Ultimate Workout for Kinect for Xbox 360 will arrive later this later.

THQ Official Website