New Strands Fitness Blog

We have launched a new blog, dedicated to Strands Fitness feature releases, updates, community news and event registration. Subscribe to our new fitness blog or visit fitness.strands.com/blog

**this current blog will remain as Strands corporate news blog.

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Workout Details and Nordic Skiing

We re-launched the much-loved Workout Details option for advanced workout tracking as a beta product. A little extra time for the feature development made sure everything was running smoothly.

Workout Details makes it easy to:

  • Specify what type of running, cycling or other workout you’re doing
  • Keep notes for every step of a workout – from warm ups to cool downs and everything in between
  • Track intervals, fartleks and other advanced training techniques

Along with Workout Details, we’ve also brough back Nordic Skiing as a workout type.

Check back ofter for further development updates on other Strands Fitness features and tell us what you think – we welcome your feedback!

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Strands Fitness launches mobile race application for smart phones.

Strands Fitness is proud to provide a mobile race application for smart-phones for the inaugural Vancouver USA Marathon.  As the official technology sponsor, Strands Fitness will also provide online race registration and a social training log platform to help race participants prepare for the event.

The Vancouver USA Marathon race mobile application is a simplified version of the Strands Fitness mobile app, a GPS tracker combined with social networking integration.  With the race app, participants and spectators can receive updates from the race director, view photos uploaded by the community, and live athlete tracking on the race day.

Benefits for the event organizers:

  • Keep race participants updated with news and race information
  • Provide training tips and sponsor messages
  • Distribute detailed course maps with elevation profile, aid stations and entertainment on the course

Benefits for event participants and spectators:

  • Receive event news directly to your phone
  • Track runners in real-time on race day
  • Find exclusive deals and promotion from the event sponsors
  • Share and view photos by the community

Download the Vancouver USA Marathon app here.

For more information, please contact Wookie@strands.com

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Introducing Strands Fitness Beta

We have listened to your feedback and are making many changes to strengthen our application. You can see our new navigation and enhanced features designed to make using our application easier and more intuitive. The Strands Fitness Beta application is designed by our team of professional athletes to help you achieve your fitness goals.

New and Improved Features

Goals

We’ve revamped our goals! All goals will be displayed in the the progress bar and will be automatically updated with every activity you add to your training log. To share a goal, click on the yellow ‘More’ button. Choose goal options including Simple, Weight and Activity and define how you want to track.

Progress Summary

View your activity summary for the current week! The progress tab displays active goals, recent workouts and friends’ activity. From the report tab, you’ll get your weekly summary charts, recent activity from your contacts and current active goals. From the complete summary page, you can then navigate to the pages and posts you wish to find.

  • Facebook Login
  • Layout theme
  • Faster!
  • Easier user navigation

Using Strands Fitness Beta

Remember, any posts created in the Strands Fitness Beta application will only be saved and available in Beta. When the Beta application replaces current site at fitness.strands.com, all your saved activity history from Beta will then be transferred. We suggest you try out Beta, but choose one application to add your activity. Facebook login users will not be able to access fitness.strands.com until the Beta application replaces the current site at fitness.strands.com

If you have any questions, comments and concerns, please visit our Beta FAQ or contact us at feedback@strands.com.

Thank you for your support as we create a stronger application to help achieve your fitness goals!
Strands Fitness

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Strands Previews New Business Intelligence App at FinovateEurope

Last week, the Strands Personal Finance team made their way to London to attend the first FinovateEurope conference. The company was one of 36 selected from around the world to present at this demo-based conference in front of an audience of 400 financial executives, press, analysts, bloggers, entrepreneurs and industry players.

At the conference, Strands Personal Finance gave a preview of their new Business Intelligence (BI) application, which plugs directly into the Strands PFM platform. The BI app gathers user data and analytics from Strands PFM solution, allowing banks to visualize key metrics, personalize and customize their PFM solution and see key performance indicators.

The application was designed to help financial institutions improve adoption, ROI and profits from their PFM solution. It will be available later this year. If you are interested in more information about Strands Business Intelligence, contact our SPF team.

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Happy New Year from Strands.com!

Happy 2011 Everyone!

2010 has been both incredibly busy and great year for us here at Strands Labs. It’s amazing to see how far we’ve grown and thank you everyone for showing Strands love. We look for even greater accomplishments in 2011!

We are currently working to bring more focus towards goals. I think the new tools will aid to stay motivated and logging your workouts. Suggestions and feedbacks are always welcome- Strands.com is for YOU!

We can’t say it enough – thanks to all the fans of Strands.com!

With love, Strands.com Team

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Team Strands.com/Mizuno athlete Meghan Armstrong racing Chiba tomorrow

Team Strands.com/Mizuno athlete Meghan Armstrong racing Chiba tomorrow

Corvallis, OR, November 22, 2010–Team Strands.com/Mizuno athlete Meghan Armstrong returns to International Chiba Ekiden with Team USA to race the marathon relay tomorrow. The 22nd edition of the event will feature teams from Japan, Romania, Russia, China and Canada in addition to a strong USA squad.

Armstrong and fellow Chiba veteran Ed Moran (Williamsburg, Va.) will lead teammates Bobby Curtis (Ardmore, Pa.), Aaron Braun (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Kim Conley (West Sacramento, Calif.) and Stephanie Pezzullo (Charlotte, N.C.)

Team USA will look to improve on an fifth-place finish from last year, where they covered the marathon distance in a combined time of 2 hours, 9 minutes and 42 seconds.

Find Meghan’s training and wish her good luck on her Strands.com online training log.

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