Gimme20

Gimme20.com was developed by WC, Inc. in beautiful and health-conscious Vancouver, Canada.

Steve:

I created an account on this site and looked around a bit yesterday. Communities? Check. Groups? Check. Mobile access? Double check. Ease of use? That’s where I got tripped up.

You’re able to find workouts that other users have created. They have a title, some description or instructions, and then they’re each set up to track in a specific way (time, distance, etc.). I searched for ‘elliptical’ and got an exercise that had “30 minutes” in the title and would only let me track distance. I’ve done a lot of time on that thing and I don’t remember it ever giving me the distance. I’ll have to check next time, but what I would have preferred was time tracking.

No problem, it lets you create workouts. Although when you go in to create a new entry there’s a banner that comes up that warns of not creating duplicate entries. At this point I’m stuck with either ignoring the message or creating yet another duplicate.

I’d give this site 3 out of 5 stars.

Jason:

I was able to create an account quite easily, lots of AJAX to be had on this site. At the time of writing there is 4000+ subscribers on the site many of which are participating in their forums. A website like this requires lots of forum participation and it seems that the majority of the users are participating. The interface of the site is easy on the eyes but doesnt have that new fangled Web 2.0 look to it. This isn’t bad but it does stand out a bit from the crowd. Another thing about the forums is that they allow for all sorts of multimedia to get your point across. Pictures, youtube videos and such really added to the experience.

I too had the same problem as my co-host, creating a new workout or rather being pushed to use an already created workout was a bit odd. Other websites allow you to create workouts without this warning. I’m not sure what the devs were thinking about on this one.

The ability to input constantly changing stats (weight, workouts) over their mobile site work splendidly. I think more sites should go about it this way. I’d like to see a way to display this data on my own website like some other places do. They really did a good job of getting data into the site but I think they need to allow you to use that collected data elsewhere.

I give this site 4 out of 5 stars.