Making Exercise Easy Matthew Penk

Difficulties of Exercise Tough for people to accurately keep track of activity and count calories. Tough to monitor long term goals and progress. (Weight loss) Many fitness programs are too broad and don’t meet the individuals needs

Solution: What is it? Health application launched by Google in early 2014 focused on increasing activity and helping others lead a healthier life. How does it work? 'SMART‘ algorithms analyze the available data and detect whether the user was walking, running or riding a bike. Uses speed, motions of the device and a large amount of data already available on Google's servers.

Benefits Tracks important health information such as weight, nutrition, calories burned and active minutes. Ability to track many activities. Ranging from Aerobics to Rowing. Compatible with all wearable android devices. Including many other apps like Nike, Runtastic, and Map My Fitness.

How it works: Download from Google Play Store for free. Sync to any tablet, smart phone, or wearable android device User can also track their progress on computer. After syncing device user enters information such as gender, height and weight.

Why this app is necessary: Will help motivate individuals to lead a healthier life. Provides individual with one place where they can track important keys to a healthy life. Important health metrics include: sleep, calories burned, steps, nutrition, distance walked, and can track a wide range of activities.