Arel English Created Vitogo to Turn Smartphones into Personal Trainers
Health and fitness is an area where technology is in a bit of a boom. Wearable devices like watches and wristbands count the calories people burn and quantify their daily fitness stats. There are hundreds of apps that help you track people’s eating and exercise habits, and there are even ones in which the sole purpose is to motivate users to exercise more. Still, there aren’t many apps that help people with the process of exercising itself. Cool person in technology Arel English founded Vitogo to change that fact. Vitogo is an iPhone app that acts as a personal trainer for its users. Vitogo stores exercise related data to help people achieve specific goals with their workout schedules. Rather than simply provide users with metrics about how many calories they have burned, Vitogo provides actionable workout plans to help users achieve specific workout goals. English has incorporated enough fitness data into his app that Vitogo provides users with specific long-term plans to achieve their goals. This cool person in technology has even made it so his app will adjust a user’s workout plan every 4-6 weeks to ensure that the person’s exercise regimen does not plateau. While fitness apps that merely track calories are akin to non-actionable computer diagnostic tools, Vitogo tries to be the fitness equivalent of a full-service computer tech support program. Read more »
