Twitter Tools to Keep You Fit, Healthy and Motivated

Did you know you can lose weight and become healthier with Twitter? Here are a few coolest Twitter tools and bots that help and motivate you to maintain a healthier life style!

You don’t need to be a geek actually but if you don’t have a Twitter account yet, that’s a good reason to register one (even f you are tired of that Twitter talk around the Internet).

Office Workout is a cool (surprisingly not really popular) Twitter bot that keeps you fit and healthy at work by tweeting a random office workout every 30 minutes.

Just follow it via your favorite Twitter client and let it update you twice n hour!

I find it awesome that the tool reminds you to keep a few seconds of rest and do some exercises.

Qwitter is a Twitter support group that helps you quit smoking! Tweet how many cigarettes you smoke daily, track your progress and share it with your Twitter friends who will be motivating you! Each time you light up, send Qwitter the number of cigarettes you just smoked by sending a public reply to @iquit.

TweetWhatYouEat provides a public food journal and thus encourages your followers to motivate you to maintain healthy diet. “Tweetwhatyoueat uses Twitter to allow you track your food intake, calories and weight from just about any device including your mobile phone, IM or the web!” You can also export your Twitter diary from the web interface.

RememberTheMilk is a Twitter client for the web-based productivity tool that allows you to organize your daily tasks. It can be also an awesome way to organize your workouts.

Just send its Twitter bot a direct message with the task and (optionally) when it’s due. The task will be added to your inbox, and the tool will remind you about it later.

Twackit allows to use your Twitter account to track any metric (like your weight!) and observe trends over time.

Just tweet a numeric value and hashtag to @twackit: no need to sign up, and totally free!

All you need i to pick meaningful hashtags to categorize your twacks.

If you want to keep your weight private, use w8track to track your weight. To record your weight, send a direct message on Twitter to DM w8track. once you’ve specified a unit of measure, it’ll become the default. You’ll only need to specify pounds, kilograms, or stones the first time you enter your weight. The next time you enter your weight, you can simply send the number

gtFtr is a handy tool that allows to track your specific exercises and daily statistics.

Just send @gtFtr a Tweet with exercise details (e.g. “Steps 900“), the number of calories (“Cals 800“), distance (“Dist 3.9“), etc.

This can be a good and quick way to maintain online journal you can access from home or your workplace. Besides, it’s public, so you can get your followers to motivate you!

Ugomo allows to keep track of your workouts by Tweeting them.

Let’s say you do various exercises during the week and you want to keep track of which ones take more time. In this case, the tool may turn very useful!

Simply send a twitter message with hashtags (for example, #run, #walk, #swim) addressing them to @ugomo and get charts, calendar, summaries, reports etc.

Tweet A Run is a Twitter based app (you’ll need to connect it to your Twitter account) that enables you to monitor of running progress by Tweeting it! Just go to the app, login with your Twitter account info and record your rub: distance and time. Repeat after each time and create your graph!

Happy Twittering and getting healthier!