Fiit app gamifies home fitness to encourage healthy habits

Signal1 May 2018

London-based startup Fiit is an app that combines on demand fitness classes with wearable technology and social competition. By gamifying the fitness experience, it's trying to keep health-conscious Britons both motivated, and on the right track towards building healthy habits.

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