SeekOver. com Partners with ExerciseFriends. com
SeekOver. com (http://www. SeekOver. com), Livedoor’s English portal today announced its partnership with ExerciseFriends. com (http://www. eXerciseFriends. com), the best place to find friends to exercise with, currently ranked the sixth most popular fitness website on the Internet by Alexa. com (an Amazon. com company).
Miami, FL (PRWEB) November 5, 2005
SeekOver. com (http://www. SeekOver. com (http://www. SeekOver. com)), Livedoor’s English portal today announced its partnership with ExerciseFriends. com(http://www. eXerciseFriends. com (http://www. eXerciseFriends. com)), the best place to find friends to exercise with, currently ranked the sixth most popular fitness website on the Internet by Alexa. com (an Amazon. com company).
The SeekOver. com exercise channel features success stories, offers a newsletter, fitness tips and articles, BMI and calorie calculator to a weight loss forum and much more. The exercise channel allows users to find workout partners by any of the over 100 activities listed from walking hiking running, tennis, rollerblading, volleyball to even hang gliding and spelunking. There are several other ways to search for partners too from searching by gender, state or zipcode to browsing forums, clubs, teams & groups or searching by different types of workout facilities all for free.
ExerciseFriends. com fosters an exercise environment that encourages people to share certain attributes and thus provides a multitude of ways for users to connect. On SeekOver. com’s exercise channel, users create a profile that includes age and gender, skill level, goals, best days and time to exercise, and favorite activities (there are 111 choices) and then the site matches potential exercise buddies. Seekover. com’s exercise channel provides consumers the opportunity to meet an exercise partner and find friends that can help you stay motivated to exercise.
“This partnership is a great way to provide a safe place for our users to find an exercise partner” said Mariana Herrera, Business Development Director “It’s also an innovative way to match people with varied exercise interests and provide them with motivational support.”
“Partnering with SeekOver. com is a big step for ExerciseFriends. com because it opens the world of health and fitness to a vast new audience,” said Patrick McCluskey, president and co-founder of ExerciseFriends. com. “SeekOver. com already provides its users with great features and content and I am excited that Livedoor selected ExerciseFriends. com as their preferred partner to connect their users to meet local area friends to exercise with. It is well know that people who exercise with a friend tend to stick with it longer and get better results! Our ability to connect people based on favorite healthy activities, skill level and schedule will be a great value-added feature for Livedoor’s SeekOver. com.”
About SeekOver. com:
SeekOver. com is Livedoor’s English portal. It features a user-friendly format with content ranging from news headlines, sports columns, entertainment, games, finance, resourceful articles, and special event sections. SeekOver. com is a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan based Livedoor Co. Ltd. [TSE: 4753].
About ExerciseFriends. com:
ExerciseFriends. Com was launched in January of 2005 with the mission to help people across the world find friends in their local area to exercise with that share the same schedule and fitness level. Obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol are all on the rise and each of these conditions can be reduced or eliminated through exercise and proper nutrition. Obesity related deaths are now the number two preventable killer in the United States and is expected to surpass smoking as the number one preventable killer of Americans in the not too distant future. Meet Friends. Exercise More! www. eXerciseFriends. com.
SeekOver. com Contact:
Beth Cann
305-513-0013 ext. 222
Beth. cann@livedoorinc. com
ExerciseFriends. com Contact:
Christian Scarborough
512-244-7088
Cscarborough@austin. rr. com
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