Activity and fitness go a long way to determine our health and wellbeing. Technology keeps improving on a daily basis in the areas of communication, transportation, access to information and a lot of other areas. Despite that, we spend several hours with practically little or no movement. It won’t be a bad idea if something motivate us to build our movement so as to keep fit. This is exactly why Actifit have been developed and designed.
What is Actifit?
Actifit is an innovative decentralized platform built on the Steem blockchian that tracks and rewards your everyday activity with Actifit (AFIT) tokens and STEEM in form of upvotes on your Steem posts. Actifit decided to leverage the technology of Steem blockchain so as to provide an incentive in form of Steem Upvotes and AFIT tokens for people to get involved in one or more activities and also keep fit for quality health and wellbeing.
The aim of Actifit is to implement the creation of an SMT on top of steemit.com to give its users the opportunity to be rewarded properly based on Proof of Activity. What am saying in essence is that; for users to be rewarded, it’s quite necessary for them make available the proof their physical fitness activity. In order to avoid gaming or cheating the system, Proof of activity is dependent upon automated capturing of whatever activity a user might have claimed to perform. Actifit supports a series of activity tracking which includes but not limited to step count and even lots more will be included in the nearest future.
How does Actifit work?
We have quite a good number of Apps whose purpose is to track step count and health. A lot of them such as MyFitnessPal, Samsung Health and Google Fit are available and can be installed on mobile devices without stress.
One major fault with some of those trackers is that they are prone to manipulation, and this is because they allow their users to edit their actual activity as compared to that of Actifit, that does not allow actual activity to be edited. They have a well developed and designed app which manage, control and direct the capturing of step count by being dependent on existing open source work and providing full support for Android. The process of tracking and rewarding users on Actifit is done in 5 steps
Step 1: The very thing is to download the free Android “Actifit Fitness Tracker” application on google play store using this link http://bit.ly/actifit-app
Step 2: Install and run the downloaded Actifit app
Step 3: Carry out your activity or workout. Steps will be recorded automatically in background (visible through the Actifit app)
Step 4: Once a step or activity of 5000 minimum count has been reached, post it to Steemit and your post will be successfully created with the first tag as “actifit” and your step counts will included automatically.
Step 5: Then you get rewarded with AFIT token and on your post for your activity. Only one post can be rewarded per user, per day.
Note that the Actifit app is open source, and can e accessed on github here. Also note than AFIT token is an ERC20 token that can be exchanged for other cryptocurrencies once SMTs are live officially on the Steemit platform. The holders of AFIT tokens will be able to purchase fitness related equipment, tools, gym membership, gadgets, sport wears and many more with AFIT tokens in the nearest future. You can earn more AFIT token by delegating Steem Power to Actifit on Steemit.
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