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Let our family take care of yours

Rajnish and family

Introduces Health Food delivery, Online Pharmacy, Gym Partnerships, Genetic Testing, and Rewards program.

Rajnish and Reena Kansal, both in their mid-forties are a happy couple with two happy kids. They are a fit family that believes in healthy eating and being active daily to lead a happy life together. As a family, they exercise together and bond well.  Based on this true experience and learning, GOQii has now introduced GOQii Family Care, a one-stop solution for all health concerns of your family. This new offering is part of GOQii’s Smart Preventive Health Care platform 3.0 ecosystem.

Preventive care services to maintain your health and prevent disease for you and your family is one of the most important things you can do to stay healthy. GOQii family care is GOQii’s commitment to encouraging players as well as their family to make a permanent shift towards a healthier lifestyle. GOQii Family care connects, tracks and takes care of the family’s health with consultations by GOQii care team consisting of GOQii Coach, GOQii Doctors and GOQii health experts.

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December 7th, 2017, marked a milestone in GOQii’s 3 year journey where the company apart from the Family health care plans also launched a suite of new offerings for its esteemed players in the area of gaming, e-marketplace, rewards and cash points and a sleek new slimmer tracker that will be available to all existing GOQii users at the beginning of 2018. These services will be available in India and will roll out to other countries through 2018.

The launch celebrations took place in Mumbai in the presence of the entire GOQii family that included GOQii staffers, coaches, players, partners and media among others. Many travelled from as far as Nadurbar and Lucknow to be a part of this celebrations.

let’s take a peek at the new offerings

Games4Good: Cognitive abilities can be maintained or improved by exercising the brain, the same way physical fitness is improved by exercising the body. GOQii Games4Good is a series of puzzle-based cognitive games built into the GOQii app that helps players exercise their mind and prevent brain disorders and improve their memory, cognitive powers and overall mental health.

GOQii Health Store: Is a GOQii curated health marketplace with a suit of a wide variety of products and services catering to individual’s needs and preferences. GOQii has entered into one of the most comprehensive strategic partnerships with various companies in the health and fitness categories such as healthy snacks, health food delivery brands, health supplements, online pharmacy, diagnostics, genetic testing, gym, and accessories. With these collaborations, GOQii is looking to provide its players with the convenience of getting customized products and services delivered to their home or office.

GOQii Cash: Rewards Program: Health is Wealth. To motivate its players to live a healthy lifestyle, GOQii will reward them with GOQii Cash- a virtual currency system for indulging in different activities such as completing daily targets, taking a doctor or expert consultation, uploading medical records, taking HRA (Health Risk Assessment) etc. GOQii is encouraging its players to be healthy and in return get wealthy. GOQii Cash can be used for redeeming various health products listed in GOQii store. Lastly, players can also use GOQii Cash to purchase various services and product in the GOQii Health marketplace.

GOQii 3.0, a slimmer and sleeker design tracker: GOQii will ring in the New Year with the launch of GOQii 3.0 tracker. The new tracker will be sleeker, slimmer with a multi-touch colour display with themes to suit one’s style and attire. The V3 tracker will also come with a new sensor with heart rate variability (HRV) and Presence Plus, a networking feature that GOQii launched at the recently concluded GES conference in Hyderabad. The new tracker will be available from January 2018. Existing GOQii players can upgrade to GOQii 3.0 tracker for an additional fee.

Pricing: GOQii Family health plans will start at Rs.1999/- onwards and portion of this will also be eligible for Tax Savings under Section 80D

 

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Making money on Fitness and Youtube

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He is a millennial, a YouTube celebrity and is all over the net inspiring people to get healthy and fit but, did you know he had to work hard too to get fit and fab. Today, he runs his own health and fitness YouTube channel called BeerBiceps which has a huge following. When asked why ‘BeerBiceps’? “My idea of BeerBiceps(www.youtube.com/c/beerbicepsofficial)is to be fit and have fun too”, says RanveerAllahbadia on ‘Beneath the Force-The Vishal Gondal Show’.

On the show he talks of from being a fat boy where his life was full of ‘One more beer’ and ‘one more cheesecake’, no clear goal and more importantly, NO PURPOSE,to coming a long way and walk the path of health and fitness. Ranveer realized there was no short cut to fat loss and the solution was only through proper diet, exercise and discipline. Today, having a fit lifestyle has literally created a career for him.

He is a full time weight loss and strength coach. He is also the present trainer of TanmayBhat of the AIB fame who purely by following diet and exercise under the guidance of Ranveer has been able to lose 100+ kgs. Ranveer says that fitness has given him something much bigger than just a career. “As much as fitness has trained my body, it’s trained my mind even more,”he adds.

Ranveer’smantra is ‘fitness should be a permanent change in one’s lifestyle. Not a temporary activity to get to your physical goals’. His advice to one and all is embrace a fit lifestyle ‘JUST’ to develop as a person.

Some take away from the podcast

  • From aspiring to being a film director, chef finally fitness became an escape for him
  • The superhero is really enchanted by is ‘Batman’. He says, “Batman is a superhero without super powers but his brain was a super power and that appeals to me”

Life hack- his to do list. He says, “everything in my life works on a to-do-list’

20 minutes meditation in the morning keeps him happy and peaceful

You can listen to the podcast here:

Making Money on Youtube With Beer Biceps

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Your Android smart phone can tell you what you are eating

Food-Referee-for-press-01Thanks to smart phones, food logging or food journaling or keeping track of what you eat has shown to help prevent and stop over-eating. The GOQii app has helped its players to portion control their diet and eat healthier trhough the food log. While, the app has made it easy for the GOQii coaches to track what their players are eating and give them appropriate advice.

But, how would you feel, if I tell you that your android smart phone can now detect what you are eating and whether you are eating right by simply taking a photo of your food plate and thereby making it easy to log your food. GOQii on Monday July 17th, launched its auto food recognition feature called ‘Referee. The launch took place in the presence of GOQIi players some who travelled from as far as Nandurbar and Thane. A variety of food items were on display and players with android phones

GOQii Food Referee, is a feature to automatically detect food and it’s nutrition information by uploading photos and logging food. With the introduction of Referee logging food will become easy and the built in database already has thousands of food items.

Food-Referee-for-pressSpeaking on this new development, Vishal Gondal, CEO and Founder, GOQii said “One of the feedback that we constantly received from our players was how it was cumbersome to type food intake on a daily basis and log. ‘Referee’ will now make it easy for the players to just click a picture and log food to share with coach and friends and making it fun and exciting to meet their health goals”.

GOQii Referee, is a food and nutrition detector which uses food recognition machine learning algorithms to identify many different foods and their nutrition information. Using artificial intelligence (AI), neural networks, computer vision and image recognition, Referee identifies the nutrition information in Indian and Continental cuisines. GOQii Referee has been tested on thousands of diverse dishes ranging from Indian and Continental cuisine list.

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Along with the auto food detector, GOQii also launched ‘Arena’ a motivational platform that will help GOQii users, to connect and motivate each other in making a lifestyle change for a better and healthy life. It’s just another social platform for players to get healthy together.

Through GOQii Arena, user can create their own groups of people with similar health goals and challenge each other, thereby creating opportunities to promote healthy living. Using Arena, users can share images of the food, activity, Karma donation with their coach and friends. With the increase in use of social media and apps, most use persuasive technology to steer its users to click on ads or buy products. GOQii aims to use persuasive technology to help the users in developing healthy habits through Arena.

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Do’s and Don’ts of Trail walker

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When I was told to be a part of a 100 km trail walk, I agreed. My initial reaction was there is nothing new about long distance walking. I do it all the time and do it in the Himalayan and the Sahyadri hills. But, yet there is a new challenge in doing the 100 km trail walke. Have done it once and I would say it is still a challenge for myself- a challenge to test my own endurance.

Honestly, I will reiterate this point again that there is nothing tough about walking a long distance. Walking 15-20 miles (24-32 km) daily is what human bodies are built for. But, sadly none of us walk that much even in a week in our normal course of routine. So for many when they end up taking up such a challenge of 100 km they get a bit perturbed.

I would say first and foremost think and figure out why are you doing this? Are you doing this for yourself and to build your own endurance? Are you doing it because you are being forced -because you think you will be judged based on doing this challenge? Are you doing this to prove a point to others? Once you have the answer for why you are doing it you will be at ease in deciding your next step. I would say do it for yourself.

While this is an endurance challenge, it is also largely about teamwork and a strategy game. It’s about patience and temperament.

All rookies to the 100 km challenge remember one thing –be mentally prepared and don’t think too much about it. Even when I did it for the first time, I was not sure what to expect but, after two practice session of 25 km each at Garudmachi also known as the Eagles Plateau, I was clear of what to expect.

With exactly 20 days left for the D -Day, here are a couple of dos and don’ts for the trail walker that might help. This is based on a few learning from my own experience and practice sessions.

Dos: Get your footing right during your practice session especially if you are doing treks. Do not injure yourself during the practice. Do enough strength training for neck, shoulders and legs.

Dos: Ideally, it would be good to practice in a mixed terrain (both tar and hillocks) so you are comfortable on the day of the walk.

Dos: Be positive and happy all along the trail. Sing to yourself, laugh and motivate yourself.These ease the pressure on you and your teammates.

Dos: On the day of the trail walk try to rest a bit at checkpoints and then move forward. Target to cover 60% on the first day. Believe me, the remaining 40% will be easy on you.

Dos: learn to walk in the heat no matter how grim, awful and humid you feel.

Dos: Remember to thank your support crew after the event is over. Because they are going to be the ones who are going to be there for you waiting to make you feel comfortable with whatever you might need after long hours of walk. They will motivate you and make sure you do not have to think about anything else and just concentrate on your walk. So thank them.

DON’T talk much on the trail. Conserve energy. But do not be afraid to communicate uneasiness.

DON’T overload the backpack you are carrying with you on the trail. 1 to 2 litres of water is essential and your personal medication if you need anything on the trail. You really don’t need so many eatables and energy bars on you at all times. Let your support crew carry the extras.

DON’T argue with your teammates. Always try and come to a consensus on any issues that may arise. Remember this is a team effort.

DON’T get overexcited early on in the walk. Walk at your pace lest you end up getting tired very soon.

DON’T: Walking with earphones on could prove dangerous.

DON’T: Lastly, do not litter. We are all educated people. However tired you may be and might just want to throw away that bottle down, do not do it. Keep it with you in your bag and dispose it later.

Follow these dos and don’ts and you will be good to go for the 100 km trail walk.

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