Welcome to Goalster - Tracking Your Fitness Goals with Peers

Positive encouragement can be a huge motivator for anyone trying to achieve their personal fitness goals:

• A friend patting you on the back during the last leg of your run...
• Your workout buddy giving you a fist bump after you reach a new max on your bench press...
• Teammates congratulating you after a game winning home run...

Encouraging gestures such as these can also “push” us when setting fitness goals, making sure that we are challenging ourselves to reach our full potential.

This kind of social interaction plays a key role in determining how quickly we are able to reach our personal fitness goals – it also provides an added sense of accomplishment once we’re finally there! But this element of camaraderie can quickly become lost over the Internet. How can an online fitness network re-create this form of positive encouragement and reward.

Virtual Fist Bumps

Fist bumps are earnable accolades that can be given or received. Notice a friend in one of your groups is nearing a personal fitness goal? Send him a fist bump of encouragement. See someone just achieved their workout goal? Give them a congratulatory fist bump!

Each user's earned fist bumps are aggregated on his or her profile page, allowing you to engage in a little healthy competition with your friends and group-mates.

Ready to start setting fitness goals and earning "fist bumps" from your friends? Sign up for Goalster today!