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"Evernote\u00A0is fast-becoming everyone's favorite note taking app.\u00A0Anyone with a less than perfect memory who uses a computer, smartphone or tablet can appreciate the cloud-based, multiple device exterior brain of sorts.\r\n\r\nAt LeWeb this past December, Evernote\u00A0launched two new apps\u00A0to help you track the food you eat and the people you meet. In fact, at LeWeb Evernote CEO Phil Libin told us how Evernote is evolving from an app to a platform. Musician use Evernote to compose songs, track snippets of melodies with audio recordings and jot down lyrics and sketches. Hairdressers use Evernote to catalog before and after shots of clients. With a new app called\u00A0Say Mmm, you can now\u00A0simply add a tag to your stored recipe on\u00A0Evernote, and Say Mmm will generate a grocery list with everything you need to make the meal.\r\n\r\nIn January, Evernote announced its new Fitness Ambassador Chad Williams, an online fitness coach and nutrition consultant with 25 clients around the globe. Williams, who's based in Vancouver, BC is leading a very new trend in online personal training.\r\n\r\nIn a recent Forbes article titled &amp;quot;The Internet vs. Your Gut: Personal Training Goes Digital,&amp;quot; author Ed Zitron writes\u00A0about the flaws in commercial gym business models and the failure of traditional trainers to really care about their client's progress. Meanwhile, the Internet has metaphorically and literally leveled the playing field for those looking to get fit online.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;The Internet has\u00A0spawned countless resources for would-be exercisers\u00A0such as\u00A0BodyBuilding.com,\u00A0BodyRecomposition.com,\u00A0RippedBody.JP,\u00A0LeanGains\u00A0(the blog-meets-notepad of fitness and dieting guru Martin Berkhan),\u00A0PubMed's millions of free scientific articles and the findings of nutrition scientist and lifter\u00A0Alan Aragon,&amp;quot; writes Zitron.\r\n\r\nChad Williams develops personalized workouts and nutritional goals for his clients, using Evernote to keep track of their routines. He stays in near constant communication with them via Skype, email and text and uses YouTube for video instruction. For Williams' clients, he says\u00A0it's pretty much mandatory that they use Evernote's shared notebook feature and encourages them to make goals, as well as log their daily activities, sleep schedules, body measurements and the food they eat within Evernote.\r\n\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Using Evernote's shared notebooks, we can both start to see patterns and habits, and we can conveniently view these everywhere using Evernote's mobile apps. It's so hard to realize what we're doing day to day without this, and when we can look back with 20/20 hindsight, it can inspire us to make some real life changes,&amp;quot; says Williams.\r\nIt was his enthusiastic use of the product that caught\u00A0Evernote's attention in the first place, before awarding him the (unpaid) appointment. &amp;quot;For me, Evernote's greatest feature has been its simplicity. It's a blank canvas, notes program, which has worked much better than the plethora of detailed apps and platforms out there,&amp;quot; says Williams. &amp;quot;Before Evernote I'd use PDFs to create a program and they'd email pieces of their results with attached spreadsheets. It was really hard to get a clear overview or snapshot of my clients' progress over time.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nToday, Evernote and Williams are announcing the Evernote Fitness Challenge, conveniently timed just after you've likely fallen off the wagon with your New Year's resolutions. The challenge begins next week! At the end of the 30 day challenge, Evernote will host &amp;quot;a Twitter party&amp;quot; (date TBA) with participants to hear how it went, get tips from Williams on how they can continue their success or improve results, and also, give away some swag like Evernote t-shirts and water bottles, as well a grand prize--\u00A0a month of Nutritional Consulting with a weekly 15 minute check-in call with Chad Williams himself, a prize valued at $200.\r\n\r\nHere's how it's going to work:\r\n\r\n\tChoose any combination of the four challenges presented below.\r\n\tCreate a notebook called '30 Day Fitness Challenge,&amp;quot; or something more inspiring, like &amp;quot;30 Days to a new me.&amp;quot;\r\n\tEvery day you complete a challenge, take note of it in your challenge notebook. Take photos to track before and afters, and maybe even clip some motivational articles to help you along.\r\n\tJoin the Fitness discussion forum to share your experience, tips, talk with other users participating in the challenge, and connect with Chad. (Having group support helps you to stay motivated!)\r\n\r\n4 Challenge Options (choose any combination of two)\r\n2 Fitness Challenges:\r\n\r\n\t100 sit ups per day. This can be done in one chunk or spread out through the day. You have the option to scale this down to 50. Pick a number and commit!\r\n\t100 stairs per day. You can split this up throughout the day, or reduce the total number, but again, pick a set number and stick to it.\r\n\r\n2 Nutritional Challenges:\r\n\r\n\tWater only. Do not consume any other fluids besides water for the next 30 days. If that's too challenging, you can also choose to only omit alcohol and soda.\r\n\tNo sugar. This one might seem simple at first, until you realize how many things contain sugar. Chad usually allows people to define what this means for them (ie: no sweets and candy, but fruit and sauces are okay).\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;As Evernote's Ambassador, I'd like to have as many people as possible completing the 30 day challenge. It's not going to be easy! Take for example, the no sugar one. You'll find it frightening to find that sugar is in everything. So, perhaps reduce refined sugar or don't add sugar to things. And yes, sugar is definitely in most alcoholic beverages,&amp;quot; says Williams.\r\n\r\nWill you take the challenge? Personally, I'm going for the 50\u00A0sit-ups\u00A0a day option #1a. I'll let you know how that goes. Good luck!\r\n\r\nLove Evernote? Read our piece:\u00A0The Future of Evernote: From memory machine to time machine.\r\n\r\n\u27A4\u00A0Evernote\r\n\r\nChristopher Edwin Nuzzaco\u00A0via shutterstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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