Whether you’re training for your first marathon, taking part in a local triathlon event, are a post-pregnancy mum wanting to get toned again or you just want to share the beautiful sunset you saw on your 10k bike ride with others, Movescount.com, a new, online sports community powered by Suunto, is for you. The unique and easy-to-use community from Suunto, a leading sports precision instrument designer and manufacturer, gives sports fans an exciting platform to start exercising, get serious about training or just share some of the best sport experiences with new-found friends from around the world. Open to anyone who has an interest in sport and fitness, you don’t have to own a Suunto device to join in the fun.
Every sport experience whether it’s a daily jog around the park or the climb to the highest mountain is a Move! To find interesting Moves from various sports you can just click to Movescount.com and start browsing the best rated moves.
Members can make each of their moves really count through a series of easy to use features that include:
- Your free online sports diary – a simple sports calendar allows you to chart your moves for the day or month so you soon see if you’re due a run, swim or bike ride, or if you’re over-doing it in one particular area
o Movescount.com will even generate an overview of your month’s activities so you can see if you’re on track or if you need to take your training up a level in order to achieve your personal goals
- A place for all your social media content – Movescount.com gives members the chance to enhance their personal profiles by posting the new and exciting routes they’ve found using Googlemaps, adding images of the beautiful, scenic route they’ve just discovered from their own Flickr account and videos of the sun setting over the ocean from YouTube
o Each move can then be shared with others in a click through Digg, Facebook and Twitter
- Plan and share detailed routes – share your favourite routes through the winding hills or warn others of the muddy tracks through the Movescount.com route planner. It’s the first online sports community that allows you to do this
o Members can then swap experiences, post tips and recommend other variations on these routes making it far more interesting and fun to try out
- Get connected! Movescount.com lets members meet and follow likeminded people from around the world; create or join existing groups; share top tips and rate each other and their experiences.
- Market-leading technology for both PC and Mac allows fitness enthusiasts to clearly see how many calories they’ve burned in the last workout, week or month; what their maximum heart-rate was on that challenging run; and work out their EPOC (excess post-exercise oxygen consumption), speed and distance, all through a simple, easy-to-use app
- Unrivalled in-depth analysis! Never before has an online sports community given the user such detailed analysis of their every move through easy-to-understand graphs and charts. This means it’s easy to see the areas in which you need to improve at a glance
- And for existing Suunto users...Suunto fans can, in addition, use Movescount.com as a way of tracking their training progress and managing their wristop settings quickly and easily online, such as personal parameters including weight or heart rate limits
”Movescount.com is Suunto’s next step in the consumer digital journey. It is all about enhancing our off-line training experiences by providing people passionate about their fitness with the opportunity to do this through their digital lives,” says Mikko Moilanen, Suunto President. ”We wanted to create a unique place that was open to everyone, whether you’re a Suunto fan or just someone who enjoys sports. It’s all about sharing, exploring and enjoying our everyday sport experiences.”
”It’s still early days– but we’ve got a lot of exciting things in the pipeline”, says Janne Kallio, Suunto digital marketing manager. ”There will be for example possibilities to create and share training programs. At present, we’re getting a lot of support from some of our world-class Suunto ambassadors who will be sharing their Moves on the site.”
*Compatible Suunto devices include the t3, t4, t6, Memory Belt and X10 devices. There is also the option to transfer the old training data from Training Manager and Training Manager Lite.
Movescount.com will also allow users to see all the latest Suunto updates and campaigns from its wide product portfolio as well as get exclusive insights on high-profile Suunto ambassadors.
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Janne Kallio, Suunto, janne.kallio@suunto.com
Tarja Kuusela, Suunto, +358-9-875 870 or tarja.kuusela@suunto.com
About Suunto:
Suunto is a leading designer and manufacturer of sports precision instruments for training, diving and outdoor sports. Prized for their design, accuracy and dependability, Suunto wrist-top computers combine the aesthetics and functionality of watches with sport-specific computers. Headquartered in Vantaa, Finland, Suunto employs more than 500 people worldwide and distributes its products to over 100 countries. The company is a subsidiary of Helsinki-based Amer Sports Corporation with sister brands Wilson, Atomic, Precor, Salomon, Mavic and Arc’teryx. www.suunto.com
About Movescount.com:
Movescount.com is a free online sports community powered by Suunto, a leading sports precision instrument designer and manufacturer. Movescount.com is a unique platform that allows anyone who has an interest in sport and fitness to manage their moves easily and effectively by uploading, rating, tracking and engaging with other likeminded members. Everyone can come to Movescount.com to find best rated Moves, without a need to become a member. Movescount.com uses the latest technologies and is compatible with a wide range of Suunto devices on both PC and Mac. For more information, visit: www.movescount.com