Awesome Website for Those Interested in Exercise & Nutrition

Yesterday, I re-discovered a website www.mapmyrun.com. When I was in high school and college, I can remember getting in the car and driving my running route in attempts to figure out the length of my run. Boy, how we have progressed. Now you can just pull up a website, enter in your beginning location and just click away along the roads or paths you traveled. It totals up not only the distance you traveled but also the elevation gains. You can then save your most common routes. You can even look up other people's routes in your community and see what they have to say about it.

In the past, that was the extent of how I used this website...but now it is really more of a social media site and a health log. I LOVE IT!! There is both a workout log and a nutrition log. So those walking/jogging/running routes you saved can be easily pulled up and you can enter your time, the weather conditions, how you felt or any other remarks. It calculates calories burned based on your height and weight. But it's not just for running. This week I logged in a Cardio Blast workout I did at Tryon Gym For Her and also a workout on the elliptical machine. Again it calculates approximate calories burned for the length of time, distance and your vital stats.

How does it get better?? It does the same thing with your nutrition! Basically you can create a food diary. It already has a lot of foods/meals pre-entered for you with calories, fats, carbs, proteins, etc. After you log in your entire days meals, you can look at how you compared to what your daily intake should be and your daily expenditure with your exercise program.

Now I've done this before...old school style with a notebook, pencil and calculator...and always thought it was so interesting. But Map My Run has made it so much easier. If you are a fitness fanatic or just looking to get into better shape here is one way you can hold yourself accountable without any added cost.

Just to let you know, I am in no way affiliated with the company nor do I get any incentives for sharing this. I found it fascinating and hoped it could help others reach their health and wellness goals.