VKontakte Health

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2021: Add Workout Service

Social network Vkontakte December 13, 2021 announced the expansion of a set of services designed to help people maintain a healthy lifestyle and take care of themselves. On the VKontakte Health platform, the Training service is launched - personalized fitness classes with championship winners and masters. sport The service offers each user an individual program - taking into account the wishes and level of training.

All classes are adjusted to a particular person using algorithms. Before starting training, you can choose their duration and comfortable format: engage with your own weight or weighting, develop stretching, joint mobility or endurance. After each lesson, the service will offer to assess how light or heavy the load was. Answers will help to adjust the program.

The mini-application combined more than 1300 exercises into a large training catalog: from five-minute exercises for the back - they can be performed even at the workplace - to long thoughtful studies of different muscle groups. Training is led by a trainer of the highest category, a candidate for master of sports in swimming, champion of St. Petersburg and medalist of the Russian Fitness Championship Anastasia Volodina. Certified coaches help to compile training programs: masters of sports and cm.s. in various disciplines, winners of international competitions and competitions, including the championships of Russia and Europe, authors of unique programs and techniques. It is enough to launch a video with a lesson and start repeating after a trainer: audio tales will help to bring the technique to perfection.

Each workout develops four main skills: mobility, flexibility, strength and cardio. You can monitor their progress and the number of calories spent in your profile in Training. In addition, the service can read articles about sports from professional coaches and specialists. They will help to find answers to popular questions: for example, to find out what is more useful to eat before or after exercise.

System work with advertisers and the integration of products into a single VK ecosystem allows the VKontakte social network to offer users free functions that are available in third-party services only as premium capabilities. In the future, for the deep personalization of the training process, users of "Training" will be available, including paid functions - for example, individual work with a trainer online.

The VKontakte Health platform combines services that help maintain a healthy lifestyle and take care of well-being: Diary of Nutrition, Steps, widgets and mini-applications that help you quit smoking, learn breathing techniques, do not forget to take medication, control the dynamics of your condition and symptoms of the disease. All of them, including the presented Training service, are available on the Services tab in the VKontakte mobile application.

2020: Presentation of the Health Platform

On September 23, 2020, VKontakte introduced the Health platform - with it users learn more about their body and form useful habits. Friends will help to achieve goals: you can compete with them, share successes and discuss difficulties. All features can be used for free directly in the VK mobile application - you do not need to download individual programs or understand an unfamiliar interface.

Health Platform

The platform for September 2020 is available from the vk.com/health link, and will also appear in the "Services" tab with an update to the VK mobile application. VKontakte Health will tell you how to relieve stress using breathing exercises and how much water you need to drink in order to maintain balance in the body. Another platform can help stop smoking and remind you when to take medication. In the immediate plans - to add functions that will help monitor nutrition and the menstrual cycle, train in gyms, engage in blood donation.

One of the main advantages of VKontakte Health is the social component: all friends are already here. You can consolidate useful habits together regardless of what fitness trackers and mobile devices loved ones use - all the information is collected in one service. For example, soon a rating will be available to all users with the number of steps taken by friends: the user can get out for a long walk, only to top the top.

Motivates to achieve goals and the platform itself. For example, she will tell how the user's body changes without cigarettes and how much money he has already saved. If you want to smoke, VKontakte Health will offer to write to a friend and distract yourself with conversation or relieve stress using breathing exercises.

Health Platform

You can configure notifications for each feature. Thanks to this, VKontakte Health will remind you to take medicines, drink a glass of water or meditate. Soon, to see the schedule, you will not even need to enter the service - the time and date will be visible directly in the second tab of the VK application.

Anton Tsivarev, VKontakte Super Application Development Director:

{{quote 'We have created a platform for everyone who wants to be more conscious of their health. Technological solutions VKontakte, competitive mechanics, useful materials - all this will allow you to take care of the body, form useful habits and, together with friends, achieve results. Who is better than loved ones to stop smoking or compete in the number of steps? At the same time, you do not have to download individual and, as a rule, paid applications - everything is already inside VKontakte and works independently of the operating system. }}