The new Google Health is designed to help you keep track of all of your personal health and medical information, making it easy to share very specific pieces of information with family members and health professionals. The updated design helps you keep your profile up-to-date, focusing on current activity and conditions while hiding and saving what has happened in the past. All of these changes are available immediately when you log into your Google Health account. Read Google’s Official Blog posting here.

To connect CardioTrainer to your Google Health profile, just click the “Get permanent account” button in CardioTrainer’s History tab. This will also backup all of your CardioTrainer information in case you get a new device, or something happens to your current one. After you’ve connected your CardioTrainer data to your Google account, all of your exercise minutes and calories burned will be automatically uploaded to your Google Health profile online. Over the next few months, we are going to be adding more data to the information uploaded to your profile, including workout type and weight, to make your activity information more comprehensive.

With this partnership, our goal is to help make your daily physical activity an integral part of your complete personal health profile. Both Google and WorkSmart Labs are committed to promoting the importance of wellness and preventive care to your overall health, and today’s announcement is just the first step in that direction.

As always, all of the data saved and uploaded by CardioTrainer to Google Health is strictly confidential, and only you have access to it. If you are not interested in taking advantage of CardioTrainer’s Google Health integration, you can turn it off in the CardioTrainer settings tab.

Many thanks to the Google Health team for all of their support in making this integration possible. We are are very excited to help our users get the most out of the Google Health experience, and very dedicated to continuing to find ways to promote health and wellness.

We are very happy announce that we’ve just released CardioTrainer Pro, the most advanced version of CardioTrainer to date. This new premium version of CardioTrainer includes all current premium features, plus all-new interval training. The whole bundle is a one-time fee of $9.99, and this covers free upgrades for life. As we add more features, the bundle will get more expensive, so this is our way of saying thank you to our earliest and most dedicated CardioTrainer users.  Update to CardioTrainer 2.7 and click on the Pro button on the home screen! As always, it’s covered by our 30-day money-back guarantee.

Since CardioTrainer was released almost 2 years ago, many users have been requesting more advanced training features to help make their exercise more fun and challenging. With Pro, you will be able to choose from a list of six different interval training programs at twenty difficulty levels. Want to really challenge yourself? Go for our Two Hills program and set it at level 15. Want to take a light day? Just go for a Slow and Fast walking program, which alternates brisk walking with a regular pace. During the workout you will get audio and visual feedback during your workout to guide you through the faster and slower intervals.  For becoming a Pro customer, you’ll also receive priority customer support and have all of your questions answered quickly.

The features included in CardioTrainer Pro are a huge step for CardioTrainer as a mobile fitness application. With the introduction of interval training, and in addition to Weight Loss, Race Against Yourself and all of the other features planned for the future, we hope that CardioTrainer Pro will help you stay active, making fitness and exercise even more fun.

This is only the the first version of CardioTrainer Pro, and we will be busy collecting feedback, making improvements and testing updates over the next few weeks. Your patience is hugely appreciated if you encounter any issues, and really depend on your feedback to understand what works well and what doesn’t. After installing the latest CardioTrainer v2.7 update, you can purchase CardioTrainer Pro (with a 30-day money back guarantee) by clicking the link on the CardioTrainer home screen on your phone. We are here to help, so please send your feedback to prosupport@worksmartlabs.com, and tell us how you like being a Pro.

Happy interval training!

The WorkSmart Labs family

Hi everybody,

We are very excited to announce that we’ve just released a brand new application, Calorific, to help you track everything you eat and drink throughout the day. We’re also rolling out some very important changes to CardioTrainer with version 2.6 (including permanent accounts!) so read on for more details.

Calorific: Calorie-tracking in two clicks

Our goal in creating Calorific was straight-forward: build an application that lets you track what you eat and drink, but make it really simple. Most of the other calorie-counting services we’ve tried over the last few months have required lots of work to use. There are long lists of food to choose from, precise portion sizes required, and too many clicks to make it an easy process that doesn’t get in the way or become a nuisance.

Calorific is different because you just need to say how healthy the food is (green, yellow, or red) and how big your portion is (small, medium, or large). Calorific recommends that you eat 60% green, 30% yellow and 10% red each day, and you’ll get feedback (from 1 to 5 stars) based on how well you meet these recommended goals. You can also see how well you are eating over the course of the day at a glance, and a history of past days to see how you’re doing throughout the week.

Lots of research shows that the single most important step in taking control of your eating habits is to always be aware of what you’re eating. That way  you are consistently more likely to make healthier decisions. Calorie counting is always approximate, and Calorific isn’t designed to help you keep an exact count of how many calories you eat everyday. Instead, it makes it really easy to always lets you know how well you’re eating, without getting in your way.

This is only the first version of Calorific, and we already have lots of idea for improving it. As always, we are dying to hear how you like it, so please test it out for a few days and then shoot an email to calorific@worksmartlabs.com letting us know what you think.

CardioTrainer v2.6

In other news, we’re also releasing CardioTrainer v2.6 today. This update includes some very important and long-awaited new features:

• Permanent accounts. On the history screen, you’ll now see a button to create a permanent account with CardioTrainer. This will now associate your Google account with your CardioTrainer data so that if you get a new device, or have trouble with your current device, your tracks will be automatically re-downloaded to your phone. Thank you to everyone who has been patient when asking us to merge new access codes or had their tracks wiped from their phone. We know these problems were very frustrating, but with permanent accounts, these troubles should be no more. NOTE: Since this is the first version of this sync feature, all of your tracks will be re-downloaded, but without the detailed workout information. Don’t worry — everything is still safely stored on the WorkSmart Labs web servers, and upcoming versions of the feature will restore the tracks completely. This is just the first step!
• Race Against Yourself bug fixed. A big that thank you to all of the Race Against Yourself users for your patience over the past few weeks. The last version of CardioTrainer (v2.5.1) broke this premium feature (the track wouldn’t save after the workout finished), but the bug is fixed now and there should not be any more trouble when using it.
• Speed notifications. If you would prefer to hear your speed instead of pace during your workouts, you can now set this preference in the Voice Notification settings.
• Stationary biking fixed. The bug that prevented the stationary bike from counting calories has been fixed. This exercise type now calculates the calories burned based on how long you’ve been exercising for.
• More Autostart countdown times. We’ve added times greater than 1 minute to give you more time before your workout starts.
• Small UI changes and fixes.

Please keep that feedback coming and let us know if you have any questions or comments, we’re here to help and listen to how you’re enjoying both applications.

All the best,
The WorkSmart Labs family