The main principle behind Betterfly is simple ““ people, not companies, bring the most impact to your life. Betterfly helps the process of finding the right people who can train you, whether you are into weight loss, piano lessons, learning a foreign language, yoga, and more.

You can sign up as one of the trainers or Betterist or as a student or Betteree. Betterists can create their own profile page and categorize their different service as Betterees browse through profiles and book appointments with trainers.

Betterfly is a cool community to help you get started with self-improvement. This is especially useful for people who want to help improve someone’s life without needing the connections that an organization or a company provides.

Features:

• Find professionals in personal improvement training.
• Some categories include music lessons, beauty, computed education, personal finance, sports, and more.
• Free service.
• Quick search and seamless interface.
• Similar Resources: BetterMe, Diddit, and Rootein.

Check out Betterfly @ www.betterfly.com

Once you know which workout you want, you can also use the “log” feature and keep track of your daily workout activity. If a customized workout is not your thing, browse through hundreds of professionally created fitness plans and start following them.

You can instantly add any plan to your online calendar and even receive workouts by email. Another great feature at WithFit is a list of exercises and detailed instructions on how to go about them.

Features:

• Find the right workout based on your needs.
• Browse through hundreds of fitness plans.
• Learn about different exercises.
• Ask questions and read/post comments about different workouts.
• Receive workout details through email.
• Similar tools: SimpleFit, CrossFit and Walker Tracker.

Visit WithFit @ www.withfit.com

SportyPal will not only let you review and compare your past workouts but will also display each exercise in a map view and colorful charts so you can get a quick summary of how you did. You can also upload your data to the web with a single click so its accessible from anywhere. The web platform lets you share exercises with friends and organize virtual competitions.

Features:

• Track your workout on your mobile phone.
• Work with any GPS enabled phone.
• Review and compare your performances.
• See your exercise on maps and graphical charts.
• Share data with others by uploading to the web.
• Similar sites:  DailyMile, CaloriesPerHour, MapMyRun and Walker Tracker.

Visit SportyPal @ www.sportypal.com

You can explore the different channels like Strategy, Innovation, Marketing, Governance, Sales, etc, or browse through recently added or popular videos. The website also has a collection of podcasts and articles to supplement the videos.

You can also search for videos or see the schedule of all upcoming videos. Every day, the MeetTheBoss team picks 6 excellent videos and features them on the homepage.

Features:

• Videos showcasing global leaders and executives.
• Browse through 8 different channels.
• Watch podcasts or read articles.
• Read/post comments and ratings on videos.
• See list of upcoming videos.
• View speaker’s biography.
• Share videos via email or social networks.
• Explore recent, popular or featured videos.

Visit MeetTheBoss @ MeetTheBoss.tv

No technical knowledge is required to set up your business on Traindom since it is a very easy-to-use web-based platform. You can add multimedia content, track traffic using Google Analytics and build discussions forums for your users.

Traindom is free if you are not charging your customer, but takes a little cut when you start making money.

Features:

• Create an online information business.
• Add multimedia content and analytics.
• Totally web-based, access from anywhere anytime.
• Schedule content to be displayed later.
• Accept payments from your users without any hassle.
• Excellent for online courses, trainings and paid tutorials.

Visit Traindom @ www.traindom.com

While most of the content on the site can be accessed without registering, registration helps you to track your progress, check workout logs and share with others. You also get access to exercise training videos to see if you are doing it right.

Features

• Online guide to exercise, nutrition and fitness.
• Track workouts and create logs.
• Interact and share progress with the community.
• Simple user interface.
• Similar services: CrossFit and Workouts and Walker Tracker.

Check out SimpleFit@ www.simplefit.org (via Lifehacker by Abhijeet from Guiding Tech)

The Crossfit training program has been implemented across various institutions around the world which includes police academies and military organizations. The program isn’t intended for beginners. Hence, if you are a newbie, you should go slow on it.

Features:

• Advanced fitness training and workout exercise program.
• Used by athletes and trainers across the world.
• Demo videos, detailed workouts and other information available on the site.
• CrossFit Journal available for subscription.
• Similar tools: Workouts and Walker Tracker.

Check out CrossFit @ www.crossfit.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

It also works with sites like Twitter and will soon work with Facebook, making it much more useful.

Features:

• Free workout tracking online.
• Detailed and easy to comprehend user interface.
• Helps you connect to local athletes, events and groups.
• Provides comprehensive training logs with graphs.
• Can integrate with Twitter.
• Similar sites: CaloriesPerHour, MapMyRun and Walker Tracker.

Check out Dailymile @ www.dailymile.com (Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

MapMyRun Features

• Plan, plot and share running routes.
• Search for running routes and trails locally or anywhere in the world. Over 690,000 runs has been created.
• Visualize your running routes in a 3D view.
• Discover running events and races (i.e. marathons).
• Create your own or join extisting running groups.
• Manage your training schedule and track your run workouts.
• Calculate mileage, count calories, monitors weight changes, etc.
• Create, print or download training reports.
• Option to share your training logs with others.
• Setup email remindrers.

There are a number of similar services which are based on the same concept: MapMyRide.com / MapMyWalk.com /MapMyTri.com / MapMyHike.com

[Video] MapMyRun Google Earth quick demo

Check out MapMyRun @ [ www.mapmyrun.com ]