Track Your Fitness, or Lack Thereof, with Fitness Journal

By Morgan Mayhew on September 29, 2009

FitnessJournal.com is, well, a fitness journal.

A subscription service that has been online since 2003, Fitness Journal is a straightforward web application that gives users the ability to log their workouts, daily nutrition and set goals. The service even comes with a "shoe tracker" to log the wear and tear on your feet wrappers.

While it's entirely plausible to accomplish the above with a spiral notepad and a pencil, Fitness Journal comes in handy with auto-calculating goals and visual tracking chart. For those who monitor their diet, it has a fairly large index of foods and nutritional values that is community driven.

Fitness Journal is also iPhone and mobile friendly allowing users to login and input their data while on the go.

While the service does have forums and gives users the ability to pair up with other subscribers, it's lacking on the social elements or support groups you would find on other free sites such as BeachBody's Million Dollar Site. As of this writing, their discussion boards showed a whopping three new posts in the past 24 hours.

Taking that into account, Fitness Journal is not a site that's going to help you lose a ton of weight or motivate the coach potato to put down the back of Cheetos and walk away. It's a service for athletes.

One motivational feature on the site is their rankings. Fitness Journal gives subscribers the option to rank their workouts and progress against others. To give you an idea of the types of folks who pay for a Fitness Journal subscription, the top ten listing of athletes in their 2009 ranking report have worked out no less than 1,000 hours so far this year.

Now that Fitness Journal is part of the wellness program for the United States Postal Service, I'm sure there will be a few Cheeto lovers in the mix but for the most part, Fitness Journal is representative of a fairly hardcore bunch – including the U.S. Marines who came onboard with to integrate the web site into their fitness program.

If you can tolerate paying around $40.00 per year for a consolidated online journal that will save you a bit of time in logging your diet and exercise, then Fitness Journal is for you.