Millions of people make the same New Year’s resolutions every year. Getting fit, losing weight, and eating healthy are always among the Top 10 of these promises. Sounds nice but sadly only 12% of these millions actually reach their goals.* The aim of this post is to help you make a New Year’s fitness resolution that will actually stick.
Without a doubt there is a marathon for everyone. To prove it, we have collected 1000+ running marathons and half marathons into our 2012 race calendar.
Once you have chosen your race, go and give a try to Sportlyzer’s smart training planner. It is designed by sports experts to give everyone access to training planning secrets that drive pros to success.
If your favorite race is missing here, please post it in the comment field below and we’ll add it to the list.
Why is PLANK the most used core training exercise in the world? The answer is obvious – it’s simple, powerful and doesn’t need extra gear. Learn here how to do it right!
We couldn’t be happier to announce that we just launched visualized training cycles. Now you can see your progress through your training cycles and get explanations what kind of trainings really matter during different parts of your preparation. There is also a small teaser in the pic below about what’s coming next :).
This is another step towards our vision that it’s not just the race that matters, but every training, every week, every cycle is a small goal that helps understand why and how to train.
Sporltyzer’s sports scientist Jarek Mäestu wrote a great article about preparing for races where he also explains the theory behind Sportlyzer’s algorithms. The article was published in Runaddicts blog and we think it’s a must read for all endurance enthusiasts.
Enough of long texts! Today we start a series of articles about exercising all visualized as infographics. The series starts with the basics of training physiology and moves on to training according to heart rate. Our first infographic explains why exercising raises your heart rate, makes you gasp air and how it improves your physical fitness.
(Sorry, folks, this post is in Estonian – a job offer for a PHP programmer in Estonia.)
Sportlyzer OÜ tegeleb virtuaalse treeneri väljatöötamisega tervisesportlastele. Eesmärk on luua algoritmidel põhinev veebirakendus, mis analüüsib ja nõustab tervisesportlaste treeninguid.
Kontaktisik: Tõnis Saag, tonis (ät) sportlyzer.com, +372 5690 4988
I was in Copenhagen Nov 6 – 9 to introduce our forthcoming Sportlyzer service. The feedback was great – many business people and investors are already anxious to use it themselves. Thanks to everyone who was there for your warm welcome and enthusiastic reception. I was also impressed by the triumph of bicycles in Denmark.
Sportlyzer got a lot of valuable feedback at the Venture Academy and the Nordic Venture Forum, and especially from Patrick Polak from Newion Investments who is a true business-holic and an energetic idea generator. I also got useful advice from Ciara Byrnes from Venturebeat and Chris Mottes from Six Ravens Capital. And my sincere thanks to William Stevens from Europe Unlimited and his contributing team for organizing a great event!
I really enjoyed meeting Christian Birk from Endomondo, the company providing the best sports tracking mobile apps in the world (sorry, RunKeeper :)). Congratulations to the Endomondo team for winning their presentations’ panel and I hope their homepage facelift turns out to be a hit.
I also attended Startupbootcamp Investor Day as an observer and must admit that the level of company presentations was impressive. Thanks to Michael Backes from eVenture for the inspiring discussion about Sportlyzer’s strategy.
But the greatest impression I got, was from the Danish people – 76% of people get some physical exercise at least once a week, which puts Denmark in the top 5 in Europe. And it is not only leisure time activity, many people use bicycles as their everyday transportation.
It’s a really impressive sight in the morning when hundreds of people ride towards their offices. And there are gentlemen in suits and ladies on high heels. The infrastructure for that is great and my advice to other governments and municipalities around the world would be to go to Copenhagen and see for themselves how cycle paths are laid out in the capital city. Simply wonderful!
I’m sure that I’m not the only one who would like to get some easy practical tips from everyday bicycle users:
– How do you overcome bad weather so that you don’t ruin your clothes?
– How do you take your children to kindergarten?
– How do you carry your laptops and other luggage with you?
A great article about Sportlyzer by Arctic Startup: Estonian Inner Circle and Sportlyzer Close Seed Rounds
Sportlyzer, a newcomer in sports web applications working on an intelligent online fitness instructor, closed venture capital investment from Estonian Development Fund and a private angel investor Rein Lemberpuu. Sportlyzer has made its goal to become the leading online fitness advising artificial intelligence in the world.
In August 2010 Estonian Development Fund and private angel investor Rein Lemberpuu made a seed capital investment into a sports technology company Sportlyzer that is developing a social web application for workout tracking and consulting. Sportlyzer’s uniqueness stands in workout and motivation management algorithms that give birth to a digital online fitness instructor. Rein Lemberpuu, former CEO of Playtech Estonia, head of Supervisory board at Sportlyzer, explains his investment into Sportlyzer: “I invested into Sportlyzer because I find its idea contributing to community and the team has potential to build a major leader in the area of fitness-management applications.”
Sportlyzer focuses on fitness level exercisers with sedentary work style. Online application helps to find workout buddies, manages exertion and motivation if needed. As Kristjan Port, the director of the Institute of Health Sciences and Sports of Tallinn University and the author of Sportlyzer’s workout management algorithms, states: “There are huge crowds of health level exercisers working out and taking part in sports events. Isn’t it surprising and paradoxical, that still they are so alone in their workout management. At the same time our team has the ability to support them with useful technology for that. I find it really inspiring and contributing to solve such a challenge.”
The first target markets of Sportlyzer are UK and USA. “There are many reasons for that: there are well developed fitness infrastructures, our target customer proportion in both populations is high, we are familiar to their cultural background, and of course, English is the No 1 language in the Internet,” says Tõnis Saag, the founder and teamleader of Sportlyzer. “It takes a little time until public launch, but it is already possible to subscribe to private bet at www.sportlyzer.com.”
Sportlyzer was founded by Tõnis Saag and an internet entrepreneur Jüri Kaljundi (CV-Online, Nagi, Emp.ly, Talentag) in July 2009. Soon the team was joined by Kristjan Port and a well-known sports psychologist Aave Hannus. The project was funded by Enterprise Estonia to develop the algorithms and in August 2010 Sportlyzer raised seed capital. Tõnis Saag is the manager of the company and the supervisory board consists of Margus Uudam from Ambient Sound Investments, Rain Rannu from Fortumo, Andrus Oks from Estonian Development Fund, Rein Lemberpuu and Jüri Kaljundi.
Contact: Tõnis Saag, tonis.saag /at/ sportlyzer.com, +372 5690 4988, Skype tonis.saag
Our virtual coach character contest had a lot of entries. To pick up a winner we asked our customers for their opinion.
The favourite of customers and the overall winner is the coach character by Mr Kusumah from Indonesia.
Sportlyzer’s coach will be the user-interface of our unique algorithms for workout management. So he’s already really smart and has good looks, but lacks a name. So, please SUGGEST a NAME for our COACH that you think suits him best.