MapMyWalk app

i just started using MapMyFitness as my husband's been liking it. same as MPW, but i believe it has some other options. it's pretty good - i like it showing the speeds and the route i'm walking, but if my HRM is to be believed, it's under-reporting my calorie burn. you can not link it to anything by creating a separate MapMyFitness or MapMyWalk account if you don't want to log in via fb (can't remember if this was an option, but if so, it's easy to avoid). you can also link it or not to MFP, as you prefer, and it will read some HRMs, as well.

It will just GPS you, but you can save routes after and then have yourself compete on it.

I use it 5 days a week

Anyone use this? How do you like it? How does it work?? Does it *have to* post to your FB acct?? Can you link it up to here?

Yes I use it, I like it, you open it and start walking. No you can turn off FB sharing and yes it syncs here.

wut!!! it syncs to MFP?!

Just started it. Love it. I can listen to my tunes and run and it does the work for me! I think it over estimates a bit on distance while I am on the track but I love that it keeps track of everything for me and connects to MFP. Give it a try it's FREE (my favorite hehe) :bigsmile:

I love it too! Synced here, and that is totally helpful

I don't know if I downloaded something different or what, but I was not able to sync it to here....

The syncing process is kind of weird. You have to install the "app" on MFP, then click on the link, which redirects you to MMW... which doesn't always work. It really seems to be a convoluted process. I think the issue is more on the MFP end.

recalculating! (no way to delete?)

I don't know if I downloaded something different or what, but I was not able to sync it to here.... I did sync it to FB though because it was easier to do that than to press that than to with my email, screen name, etc.

I already did my treadmill workout this morning, but plan on going for a walk before I pick up my girls from school, so I'll use it then. Excited to try it out. I'm not worried about looking at the calories burnt, but it will be neat to see how far I go!

I had the same problem when I started using mapmyfitness. It just wouldn't sync to myfitness pal. Then I realized that you have to put your weight info into the app in order for it to calculate the calories. Doesn't make much sense, because all the other details go from myfitness pal to map my fitness, but that was exactly the problem. Once I did that, it worked perfectly. I told them this in a trouble ticket and they thanked me, but seems they haven't made it very clear for new users.

Here is what I wrote to them:
"I think the problem is resolved. I went to the help section and saw "getting started with the app". I found out there that I needed to enter my height and weight in order for the calorie calculation to happen. There was no mention of this in the set up instructions and everything on both ends appears to be ready to roll. I think most people would assume as I did the MMF would get the height and weight data directly from MFP since everything else from MFP did transfer into MMF. My previous workouts recorded in MFP did transfer over to MMF. Once I entered my height and weight it seems that it is now working fine. I responded to another user in MFP that was having the same problem and told them to check and see if they had entered their height and weight in MMF because their complaint was that MMF was not giving them any caloric calculation. Thanks for your help but I think my problem is resolved."