When starting a new health project, or a new sport, or training for an event, it’s important to get in the rhythm. One or two times of something doesn’t get you anywhere: you need to do something ten times to to get the basics, maybe 20 times to start enjoying it, and 50 or 100 times be able to say you are hooked. The good news: enjoyment and health benefits go hand in hand – the more you do something, the more benefits you get.
Introducing “Achievements” – fun little medals we’ll give you every time you reach a milestone in a an activity type. 10 times in a year is the first milestone, and after that the milestones get harder to achieve – and the medals get fancier …and fancier (you’ll have to reach them to see them – or take the easy way and follow your friends’ achievements 
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We’re developing the feature further still: for example how to best store and share your medals. If you have ideas, please send them over!
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Awesome! I’ve been waiting for something like this to show up
Things like this is why Heia is supreme.
Is this medal thing up yet?
Couldn’t find how to set my milestones..
I like! This is good motivation.
You could give (a) small medals for achieving on goals – for example in my case 5 excercises a week and (b) medals for participation in competitions – in my case running events that kind of highlight the year.
How about some other collectables aswell? Virtual “stickers” (image, gif-animation) you could put in your profile, or a puzzle or nice image that unlocks piece by piece every n times of exercise?
how about this for an achievement rewarding idea:
person can set specific goals for a specific period of time – like cycle for 1500km in 2013, swim 15k in every month, train for 200 hours in 2013 and so on. Person could set more than one goal. Upon achieving that goal s/he would get a medal for commitment/persistency or something like that. Maybe a message to friends when nearing a goal or waypoint or maybe a message of encouragement from the site.
You guys have seen the gamification course on coursera.org, right?
if you haven’t, check it out , it’s all about things like these (badges) and he discusses fitocracy.com quite a bit. You could get ideas from there
Badges are great, maybe you guys could add competitiveness among friends, not only cheering each other up… Leaderboards? Whichever Thing that would motivate and is not too complex (your website is simple and I see it as one of the key differentiators) would be a great addition
Cheers! Your website is awesome! Keep up your great work!
Alex
I wish that was a function to “hide from the other” and to remove the badges, as even the hidden workout show badge for all, and in fact did not initially want to workout data visible to others. Thank you!
yeeey
Nice!