It seems like everyone is talking about the benefits of exercise for mental health these days. There are several articles making the rounds saying that exercise might be the best prescription for mental health issues like depression and anxiety. Maybe you’ve been wondering how exercise works to relieve mental health problems. Even though we don’t

Are you looking to change your lifestyle? Want to get fit, lose weight, and feel great? Are you energized and motivated to start your journey? That’s great! Getting a strong, motivated start to your new healthy lifestyle will help you a lot, but there’s more to attaining and maintaining a new lifestyle than that initial

This week on the FITIV blog we are proud to highlight one of our FITIV Users: Jun Villanueva! Our amazing FITIV User Jun Villanueva has experienced tremendous success in his health and fitness story through workout tracking with FITIV Pulse. His story is a great example of how you can leverage technology to help you

We are pleased to highlight one of our FITIV users: Paul Widdicombe! FITIV Pulse has an amazing group of users who are getting fit and achieving athletic goals every day. Are you looking for information, inspiration or advice? Check out the new FITIV User Spotlight blog posts here at the FITIV Blog! We are starting

The maximum heart rate in your fitness app is just an estimate. If you are already going to the effort of tracking your workouts it’s important to get accurate data. While general data can show you important trends and give you a rough estimate of your effort and improvements over time, you can get much

Are you struggling to find ways to keep your active lifestyle over the winter? Are short, snowy days throwing a wrench in your workout routine? That doesn’t need to be the case! With a bit of motivation and some tips and tricks it will be easy to stay on track over the winter months. Here

  METs, MET minutes and FITIV points We all want to know if we are being active enough. Physical activity is an important part of living a healthy lifestyle. It makes you happier, healthier and more energetic. It keeps your heart, muscles and joints healthy. We know what the benefits are, but how do you

We all know that exercise is an important part of the weight loss equation. Calories in have to be less than calories out, right? Adding exercise to your day helps burn more calories. This gives you the option to eat more while still losing weight, or simply speeds up your weight loss. While it’s pretty

When you hear that abs are made in the kitchen it’s easy to assume that they’re talking about weight loss. We all know that until you cut back on body fat your muscle gains will never be visible. While cardio is important to physical health, weight loss really depends mostly on diet. You can’t outrun