FitFiend.com is revved up to be the new leader in online fitness social networking. Designed to cater to the fitness fiends in all of us, the site provides a platform for members to search for fitness professionals, network with each other for tips and motivation, connect with fitness partners to help stay on track with goals, rate and find gyms and other fitness related facilities, and find out about fitness events in their area.
FitFiend Core Features Include:
* Rich media features that allow users to upload media such as pictures and video
* A blogging feature allowing members to share their progress and experience as they strive to achieve a greater level of fitness
* An endorsement feature that gives users the chance to give kudos to FitPros or to motivate their friends
* A physical tracking feature, with the option to keep visible for only friends, that allows a user to track weight, as well as different body measurements
* A customizable workout feature that allows users to build comprehensive workouts by adding different exercises. Each workout can be kept private if the user wishes.
* A calendar feature that allows users to add events by inputting them themselves, or else by adding from other members’ calendars. This includes adding a FitPro’s schedule of classes to their own.
* An events feature where users can add any event, from a triathlon to a special group fitness class to a casual game of football
* A forum thread feature that allows users to discuss any fitness related issue
* True Web 2.0 functionality such as tag clouds, voting, and social bookmarking
* Partnership with digital video content providers, resulting in several different fitness based “channels” on FitFiend.com
* A panel of fitness experts, providing our users to a free database of workout expertise
* A “Reviews” section to rate and discuss fitness facilities, classes, products, and supplements
* A “Groups” feature that permits users to form and join groups with peers with similar interests
* A “Jobs” section for employers to post job listings for trainers and other fitness related providers
* A revenue sharing model for bloggers
* GeoTargeting and GeoAdvertising
Upcoming Features Will Include:
* Production of our own fitness based internet television programming
* Integration of sophisticated workout and nutrition tracking functionality
* Partnership with podcast workout providers
* A “Listings” section for fitness providers to list advertise and list their services
* A “Dating” section to connect singles with similar interests
Meet Lacey Stone, A FitFiend FitPro:
Former Division I Basketball Player and State-Ranked Tennis Player, Lacey Stone is currently one of New York City's most effective fitness professionals. She is the founder and owner of Lacey Stone Fitness, LLC. -a company built on the principle of applying the mentality, work ethic and spirit of athletes to everyday life.
Professionally, Lacey divides her time between personal training, teaching group fitness classes, motivational speaking and is currently at work on her first book, "What Are You Waiting For? A Fitness Bible." In the last year Lacey launched a new, completely original fitness class called "TheBigGAME!" which she teaches exclusively at Equinox Fitness Clubs. TheBigGAME! is a realization of Lacey's two decades of athletic training and has garnered a huge following of people looking to unleash their inner athlete and competitive edge. This past summer she also launched a signature workout called, "BOOTYCamp."
Meet FitFiend FitPro Ki Yun Yi:
Master Ki Yun Yi has dedicated his life to the art of Tang Soo Do. As founder and President of Yi's Martial Arts Institutes, Inc., and the International Martial Arts Association, he is a moving force in the worldwide Tang Soo Do community. He strives to bring the art of Tang Soo Do to practitioners throughout the world, while maintaining the traditionalism and spirit of this ancient and time honored martial art.
Master Yi is a native of Yong In, South Korea, a small village near Seoul. Master Yi spent his childhood years in a country devastated by the Korean War. He began his training in Tang Soo Do at the age of nine, shortly after the Korean war ended, as a means of survival and self-protection. Among his early instructors were Master Song Si Kim and Master J. C. Shin, the founder of the World Tang Soo Do Association.
Master Yi came to the United States in 1974 to teach Tang Soo Do at the request of The Korean Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan Association of which he was then a member. He founded the first Yi's Martial Arts Institute in Woodbury, NJ in 1975. Over the last 25 years, Yi's Martial Arts Institutes have grown and prospered. Master Yi founded the International Martial Arts Association (IMA) in 1984, in an effort to retain the traditionalism paramount to the true spirit of Tang Soo Do. Master Yi still teaches actively in addition to managing the affairs of Yi's Martial Arts Institutes and the growing International Martial Arts Association.
So what are you waiting for? Get motivated at FitFiend.com today!
