MyFitnessPalFor Fitness Center Use

Mario Nastasi

App with many tools to help track your journey to achieve your fitness goals.

Available online for Mac and windows, and mobile use for Apple and Android.

Track your food and water intake, and your exercise routine.

Socially connect with others.

What is MyFitnessPal?

Create your profile that includes some basic information about yourself.

Customizable goals: Current weight, Goal weight, weekly goal (lose

x number of pounds, gain x number of pounds), activity level.

Easily adjustable number of daily calories and macronutrient percentages.

Workouts/week, and minutes/workout.

Getting Started

Searchable food data base of over 1 million items.

Use your phone’s camera as a barcode scanner to scan food items. The nutritional info will automatically sync to your phone!

Track how much water you’re drinking since hydration is very important.

Food diary is organized by Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Snacks.

Total calories and calories remaining automatically adjust as you record in your diary.

Tracking Your Diet

Diary Examples

Anytime throughout the day you can look at a nutritional pie chart and Nutrient Details

Pie chart is a Calorie Breakdown. Consists of your carbohydrates, fat, and

protein. Current total vs. Goal total

Nutrient Details consist of macronutrients and micronutrients.

Tracking Your Diet

Nutrition Examples

App even lets you track your strength and cardiovascular exercises!

Just like the food database, MyFitnessPal has a huge exercise database. Ranges from Dumbbell

curls to playing sports like tennis.

Provides an approximate amount of calories burned.

Tracking Exercise

Making progress is the point in doing all of this!

Record your weight frequently and the app will keep an up to date chart of your progress.

It’ll keep track of your start weight, current weight, change percentage, and dates.

Making Progress

MyFitnessPal can also be a social network! Add friends to communicate with and

motivate each other. Post a status and your friends are able to like

and comment on it. Blog section for users to share new recipes,

workouts, and other health information. Forums for users to ask each other

questions.

Social Network

This app makes it easy for anybody interested in keeping track of their healthy lifestyle to achieve a goal. Goals may be burning fat and losing weight, or building muscle and gaining weight. It can help personal trainers and their clients, or anybody on their own.

Purpose

Visit MyFitnessPal.com online or download the app on your mobile phone to create an account.

Cost: Free! Start achieving your fitness goals today!

Where to get MyFitnessPal