FITNESS TECHNOLOGY CRITICAL INQUIRY

Activity 1 – Brainstorm

Part 1: In small groups or as a class, brainstorm the reasons that remaining physically active for life is so important

Part 2: Brainstorm the way that you think technology has impacted people’s health and wellbeing in positive and negative ways

Part 3: Brainstorm applications or online resources that contribute to physical activity and that you may have tried yourselves!

Activity 2 – Physical activity application

As a class under the instruction of your teacher, you will undertake one of these physical activity applications or resources. You will then complete an inquiry on your
experience with the application as shown below

Name of App/Workout: strava

What is the Main Purpose of the Technology: Tracks your workout

Target Audience: people who want to record their workouts

Can this be adjusted to meet other audiences? Yes

Cost: Free

Strengths: Records accurately

Limitations: Cant track heart rate

Improvements: Make it track heart rate

Activity 3 – Inquiry submission

Individually, from the list below you will select 5 fitness apps to evaluate and submit critical inquiry on.

 Blogilates  Centr
 Nike Training club  Sweat
 Strava  7 Minute Workout
 Glo  Fiton
 HASfit  Other apps discussed in consultation with your teacher

App name Cost of the app Brief description of What does it have to Who would this be Can it be adjusted to What are its
the app offer/what does it recommended for? suit multiple strengths/limitations
focus on fitness and (which audience audiences? and overall
health wise? would this appeal impression of the
to?) app?
1: Blogiates Free, subscription Workout video app workout videos, Somebody who Yes because Very nice visuals,
option $6.50 with videos that are challenges, and doesn’t have much anybody can watch good workout plans.
only on blogiates. workout calendar time and wants to the videos and Very slow video
do workouts at follow player, took 2
home. minutes to load
video
2: Glo Free, subscription Yoga, pilates, Videos for yoga, People who are Yes because it has Very expensive
option $50 meditaion, and pilates, mediation, willing to spend a simple free monthly plan, live
fitness videos. All fitness and live lot of money for workouts classes is good, as a
20-1hr long. classes high quality videos free user you only
and classes get to see preview
workouts that last
for 1.30 min
3 Nike Training Free Workouts for Thousands of Anyone whos Yes there could be a Organised and user
Club different kinds of workouts yogas, looking to get fit or few more kid friendly, easy to use,
people pilates, dances, have a regular friendly as its more all workouts free,
meditation step by exercise routine aimed at adults not a lot of videos
step videos
4: freeletics Free, subcrition Weight workouts, Step by step shows Anyone who wants Could be more age Videos took a long
$250 a year workout plans for you exercises to build muscle focused workouts time to load,
specific muscles however the
 workouts show
correct form. Very
simple user
interface
5: Just dance Free Follow along dance A fun way to Kids or teens, or Yes, there are many Very fun and
videos workout, especially adults who want to dances with varying interactive, if
with friends try something fun levels of difficulty dances are found on
youtube then also
completely free,
however compared
to some apps on this
list it’s not the most
challenging.