Changes in the food changes to the environment, our work lives and our overall demands make it very difficult to implement a daily pattern of physical activity. The demands of day to day life make it difficult to fit more into any given day. Even those who make or find some time for some basic activity are halted in their tracks quite often by plateaus and misinformation. To save time more and more people are looking to health coaches, personal trainers, life coaches, business coaches etc. all in an effort to become more efficient, speed up the learning curve even help with a little motivation and accountability. Coaches can be out of reach for some.

Technology to the Rescue

Technology has stepped in and made it easy for almost anyone to have their own personal health coach. There are all kinds of options out there the bodybugg, the KAM and the M2 to name a few. These units have made assistance and accountability so easy and so affordable corporations and insurance companies are even jumping on board and opting to provide these personal health coaching units to their employees and clients.

See below information from one of the providers of a portable health coach MYTRAK.

"Health System" Model Is The Next Wave

As of late, large insurers and employers have discovered that physical activity is a primary driver to healthier employees and higher profits. By getting their employees to be more active, companies can save millions of dollars in preventable disease treatment later on. The earlier trend was to finance memberships in health clubs with the hope of voluntary participation by their employees. Some did take advantage of such and got healthier, but the vast majority was left behind due to time and geographical constraints. Work, family, and other demands prevented them from attend a club regularly. Plus many simply do not wish to go to a gym.

MYTRAK has developed technologies and programs that remove these constraints of general masses. We have developed a national grid network consisting of:

• Employers
• Insurers
• Health Clubs
• Personal Trainers
• Employees
• Population at Large

What is the MYTRAK Health System?

MYTRAK, through its enabling technology, has developed the only proven means to provide a personal health coach that is totally personalized and adapts to the users daily habits. It also captures exercise data for analysis and user feedback. With over 1 million individuals currently using MYTRAK technology for coaching, encouragement and adherence to a regular exercise routine, major corporations are now adopting MYTRAK technology and deploying it to all there employees. Since these employees are scatted across the nation, it requires a nation grid of personal trainers to augment the MYTRAK virtual coach with an occasional real coach. Consequently MYTRAK is rapidly recruiting the best personal trainers to participate in key cities.

The Technology Lynch Pin

The enabling technology that makes this all happen is the MYTRAK M2 and Community Health portal. M2 looks like and iPod attached to ones belt. It captures energy expenditure by the user throughout their day. The devise gives moment-to-moment feedback as to how they are progressing throughout the day in achieving their daily fitness goals which has be captured during initial setup. By collecting data on the individual's daily energy expenditure, whether they be actively exercising, or just walking in their place of work, it can provide valuable real time feedback to help that person attain their health goals on a daily basis.

The M2 gives continual feedback via color indicators: green means they are on track, yellow means more effort is needed. In addition it is capturing every movement of the person throughout the day that can be beneficial to health. Participants can use the devise as part of a prescribed exercise routine such as a circuit gym, or merely recording how many steps they walked or stairs they climbed at work. The real power lies in a complimenting web portal. The users can upload their data to a personalized web database where some initial analysis can be performed by a MYTRAK aggregator and displayed via some graphical tools. The portal also offers a rich reservoir of health information, health news, in-depth articles, novel ideas on how best use their M2, blogs, and community chats for a sense of exercise social networking. It's a perfect compliment to any personal trainer practice.

The Synergy With Your Health Clubs and Personal Training

Although physical exercise such as walking, taking the stairs, being more active throughout the day, and eating better has its merits, for truly quantum benefits to be accrued requires the intervention of a personal trainer. The very word “personal” trainer means there is a very specific exercise prescription for that individual. M2 will assist the personal trainer in gathering the initial health data, creating a profile, and suggesting a rudimentary exercise program, but the personal trainer can use his or her skills to get that individual far better results in less time and thus provide a value-add.