Microsoft is the latest company to start trying to make an impact on your wellness and wellbeing through the medium of weight loss and fitness. Fitness tracking has become huge in the world of technology, and the Bing Health and Fitness Windows Phone app joins the queue.
This has been released as a beta through the Windows Phone store, but is not quite ready for mainstream use yet. It has been pre-released as a beta in order for Microsoft to test it and make it ready for the consumer market.
As a result of this, the app may only have limited functionality, or there may be known issues with it. For that reason, you should not download this app for public use whilst it is in the beta-testing phase. Nevertheless, this is unlikely to put off keen fitness enthusiasts with Windows Phones, who want to see what the app is all about.
The app combines health, fitness and nutrition-tracking features. Sort of a RunKeeper meets Fitbit meets MyFitnessPal, in some ways, synchronising all of your data across any Windows 8 devices. With this app you can set your daily calorie goal and then record what you eat, watching the calories get deducted from your total. There is nutritional information for 300,000 different foods programmed right in.
You can also choose from hundreds of different workouts and fitness exercises, which you are guided through using photos, videos and step-by-step instructions. In addition to this, you can use the GPS tracker on your phone to record the distance, time and pace of your workout, as well as the calories that you burn whilst you bike, walk, run or do a number of other cardiovascular activities.
When you are feeling ill, you can enter your symptoms into the device to get a free check via the Interactive Symptom Checker for possible health conditions that you may be suffering from.
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