Update: Groups & Activity Tracking Now Launched!
The last several months have been fairly busy ones here at OH and we are really excited
about this latest release. First, long overdue is the public release of OH Groups. You
will now be able to start and manage your own public groups. Second, is a major update
to Health Tracker....Activity!
OH Groups
Getting to OH Groups is easy. Just click on the Groups tab at the top of any page on ObesityHelp. OH Groups allows you to start and manage your own groups, you can find groups that suit your interests and find support groups in your area. |
If you are looking for an OH Group that focuses on a specific topic, you can browse groups by category. |
Activity
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To get to your Activity Tracker, click “My OH" at the top of any page on ObesityHelp, select “Health Tracker" on the left and then click the “Activity" tab. |
Understanding your total daily caloric expenditure requires more than just knowing how many calories you burned on the treadmill. In your Health Tracker settings area you are now able to estimate the caloric expenditure of your resting metabolic rate (RMR) and lifestyle. These estimates are integrated and displayed with the caloric expenditure of the activities you have logged. |
Your exercise log allows you to search for and add strength training exercises, cardiovascular exercises and general activities to your daily log. Caloric expenditure is auto calculated for a number of activities already included in our database of exercises. Pie charts display details about caloric expenditure and time for each type of activity. |
Sets can be added and subtracted from strength training exercises. Reps and weight used can be entered for each set. |
A number of details can be tracked for cardiovascular exercises and general activities. Some of these variables include, time, distance, calories burned, average heart rate, average power, altitude gained and average grade. |
If you can’t find the exercise or activity you have participated in, you can also add your own custom exercises. |
| Other updates include the ability to create list of your favorite exercises, reports have been updated to include a number of activity items, the nutrition search has been enhanced and we have managed to slip in a sweet macronutrient report under the “Reports" tab. If your are new to ObesityHelp or have not used ObesityHelp's Health Tracker before, you can learn about the first release here and the second release here. Need help using Health Tracker? Click here for help. Enjoy! |
Ditto. There are a lot of people with MS using this site. Since many meds for symptom management cause weight gain despite wls it would be a valuable resource for exchangeing ideas on overcomming this ms specific challenge.
MSW Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass: Eat sensibly & enjoy moderation
Links: Are you a compulsive eater? for help OA meets on-line Keep Coming Back, One Day At a Time Overeaters Anonymous
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It is impossible to add strength routines that combine compound sets working several muscle groups because you are required to pick just one. If I can select all, I could not figure out how to do it. I have to throw my strength training into "general" just to track the calories burned. I have no way to quantify my strength training routines in the summary.
MSW Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass: Eat sensibly & enjoy moderation
Links: Are you a compulsive eater? for help OA meets on-line Keep Coming Back, One Day At a Time Overeaters Anonymous
LV'N MY RNY. WORKING FOR ME BECAUSE I WORK FOR IT.
When you say "routines that work multiple muscle groups" do you mean single exercises that work multiple muscle groups or entire routines that consist of a number of different exercises? Could you also specify what exercises you are referring to that you perform on a regular basis? Thanks.
Jeremy Gentles, MA, CSCS
ObesityHelp Exercise Physiologist
I use The Body Sculpting Bible for women. A typical routine consists of what they call supersets or giantsets. Each super/giant set is a routine performed without pausing and can incorporate more than one muscle group. The compoundsets taken together equal the full routine. It is the full routine I need to record, not each exercise.
Superset example:
back/chest shoulders/legs bicepts/tricepts legs/legs
Giantset example
back/chest/back/chest back/chest/shoulders/legs
The routines change daily in three day cycles. Every two weeks the routines advance to a new group of sets.
I need to be able to record strength, total body with the usual stats for the day's workout as one item. There are always at least eight exercises. As tracker is now I'd have to record eight individual exercises three times every two weeks then break out the calories between them.
I hope this clarifies the issue.
MSW Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass: Eat sensibly & enjoy moderation
Links: Are you a compulsive eater? for help OA meets on-line Keep Coming Back, One Day At a Time Overeaters Anonymous
LV'N MY RNY. WORKING FOR ME BECAUSE I WORK FOR IT.
