Online fitness & health sites with an abundance of engaging, indepth content

Following nearly two years of development, Fitness Heaven, Inc has launched a dynamic, one-stop health, fitness and wellness Web site that takes a holistic approach to personal well-being. FitnessHeaven.com offers a wealth of balanced information with a depth and breadth unmatched on virtually any other online source. Visitors can access information on exercise, nutrition, medicine, diets, sports, even home and family life.

We've made a pointed effort to provide content on FitnessHeaven.com that is not only authoritative and helpful, but engaging and entertaining, said Paris Roussos, Fitness Heaven’s vision development and integration director. In addition to building and providing an ever-growing reference library, we are constantly commissioning and gathering studies, articles and reports from our pool of hundreds of ‘Passionate Experts,’ doctors and scientists. Their contributions allow us to refresh the site's content regularly, even hourly in some cases.

Much of the content at Fitness Heaven is available to all visitors. However, two levels of membership provide extra benefits: The free Silver membership, available through a simple online registration process, allows access to certain interactive services; Gold Membership allows access to all of the site's interactive components, personalized information and an extensive discount program for products from major retailers and manufacturers.

Our discount program alone will more than recover the cost of a Gold membership the very first time you use the program, said Don Ressler, president. The sheer amount of top quality merchandise and services available at a substantial discount through our online program will make other similar programs pale in comparison.

Health contains an extensive 10,000-page medical encyclopedia and hundreds of timely articles covering subjects from allergies and asthma to preventive medicine and women’s health issues. A unique Eight Perspectives on Conditions and Diseases gives a broad spectrum of objective information. Select a condition or disease and receive information about aromatherapy; ayurvedic (an Indian herbo-mineral system); herbology; homeopathic; nutritional; traditional Western; Chinese medicine or orthomolecular medicine (disease and injury prevention through biochemistry). There are plans for additional perspectives.

The Fitness section covers a world of healthy topics, from martial arts, exercise, and motivation to sports medicine, TaiChi and hiking. The yoga area alone offers video demonstrations of more than 50 exercises. The unique Virtual Trainer, reserved for Silver and Gold Members, will help anyone improve body strength, agility or size. Once a trainer is selected, click on a muscle group and the trainer demonstrates, through video and voiceover, the recommended exercises for those muscles.

Our Virtual Trainer is clearly the most popular area of the site, and is exclusive to Fitness Heaven, said Roussos. Our proprietary system of live action video of all exercises gives the clearest possible demonstration.

Another very popular Gold Member benefit in the Fitness section is Web Racing an exclusive feature from FitCentric Technologies. With easy-to-use software and a minimum of hardware attached to an exercise or stationary bike, treadmill, stairclimber or even wheelchair trainer, members can compete with each other in a virtual bicycle or foot race, in real time over the Web. An optional virtual reality headset further immerses participants in the action.

The Wellness section encompasses a broad range of issues from anger and stress management to grief and coping, and even workplace wellness. An extensive 'De-Stress' area invites visitors to take a break and have a little fun. There are short cartoon videos, games, meditation techniques and a music therapy tool that turns a computer into a musical keyboard, guitar or drum set.

In addition to articles on healthy cooking, recipes, food safety and nutrition, the Diet section has a 60,000-food item analyzer of caloric and nutritional information. Members can enter their food consumed and the analyzer will report that day’s intake of calories, fat and nutrients. One of the most popular features of this section is the Online Diets, a Gold Member benefit. A member fills in certain criteria, selects a type of diet and produces a personalized diet with menus and grocery lists. Eventually, members will have the ability to upload grocery lists to participating grocery home delivery services.

The Athletics section offers articles and helpful tips from the wide world of sports ranging from baseball and skiing to rock climbing, skydiving and water sports.

FitnessHeaven.com is adding new areas to the site on nearly a daily basis, including a section devoted to help people quit smoking, and plans to produce helpful information about emerging popular subjects like ethno-botanicals, art therapy, and listing therapy.

About The Author:

Janice Hutton is a successful author and regular contributor to http://www.1st-in-wellness.com. Obtaining and keeping good health through healthy living, natural healing, great mental health and healthy finances.

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Online fitness & health sites with an abundance of engaging, indepth content