Keep your wellness goals with Wellsphere

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Keep your wellness goals with Wellsphere

by Emily Price Jan 21st 2008

We're three weeks into the new year, and chances are many people's New Years resolutions have already fallen by the wayside, if not been completely given up on. If your New Years resolution involved eating better and being more active, then the site Wellsphere may be able to get you back on track.

Wellsphere is a website designed to connect users with the desire to improve their health with other people with similar wellness goals. It can also help you get connected to local resources in your area that can help them meet their goals. The website also creates groups for large organizations that want to improve the overall wellness of those involved in their program, for instance BeWell@Stanford for Stanford students. Companies can start their own similar company wellness program under Wellspheres iBeWell.

The site offers video tutorials on things like how to do a sit-up correctly, and offers a nationwide directory where you can search for things like gyms, cooking schools, and hiking trials in your area. Users can set goals on the site for their personal wellness and track their progress as well as receive tips and support along the way to help achieve them. Users can keep a journal on the site discussing their progress (and update it from a mobile phone) and ask questions to other users when they run into problems in their progress. For everything you do on the site you earn WellPoints, which as far as we can tell have absolutely no real value except to indicate how active you are on the site. We'd love to see the WellPoints actually be good for something even if its only a small icon or trophy beside your username.

One thing that makes Wellsphere stand out from other web based weight loss/motivation sites is its extension into the "real world" offering help finding groups in your area, and helping users with similar goals connect to workout and motivate each other outside of the confines of the site. iBeWell is also a pretty innovative idea for companies who are looking to lower their overall heath care costs by having healthier employees.

The site is a great idea for people who already have a decent amount of motivation to connect with others and take their wellness to the next level. What about those people who can't get the motivation together to hit the gym? Do you think a site like Wellsphere would get them on the treadmill?

[via Read/Write Web]

Tags: dieting, exercise, health, workout

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jeff said 9:18PM on 3-26-2008

In answer to your question,"What about those people who can't get the motivation together...?" Wellsphere just added a new "mobile motivation" platform called Wellphone -- it will send you tips and reminders that you ask for, and let you log and blog your progress, directly from your cellphone.
http://www.wellsphere.com/wellPhone.s
Also, there are new pages that summarize topics -- for example, http://www.wellsphere.com/benefits-of-magnesium.s

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