Anyone trying "The Walk"?
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Agreed with the folks who're pointing out that The Walk is a very different app from Zombies, Run!
The Walk is basically a gamification of Fitbit-style technology... The more active you are, the more progress you make, but it's more appropriate for general fitness / activity level encouragement than for interactive, event-driven story-line exercise. Basically you let it track your activity, check in every now & then, and progress through the app.
It does require that you keep your phone with you and on you in order to track activity through-out the day, so that could be a deal-breaker for a lot of folks. It'll really shine with the iPhone 5S M7 chip that tracks movement separately and more efficiently than the older iPhone models' accelerometers (less battery drain, for one), but it'd be really nice if it could sync with a Fitbit for tracking.
Pretty good write-up of The Walk here: http://www.argn.com/2013/12/six_to_start_the_walk/0 -
If you want to see more story running options or share with friends who don't know what all the hype is about, check out my blog post: "5 Great Reasons to Gamify Your Workouts with a Story Running App" http://amplifytoday.com/intel/5-great-reasons-story-running-app0
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I was using The Walk and enjoying it, but the latest update was too big for my phone. Even deleting every other app I could, I still didn't have enough space for it. I had gotten it to get back to exercising so I could move on to Zombies, Run! 5K anyway, so I went ahead and started that. I've finished the getting started mission and the first week's workout one and I'm really enjoying it :-)0
