Push-Up Challenges Come to Cadoo
Up until this point, Cadoo has been known as a primarily cardio-focused app. Walking, running, and biking have been our only supported activities. However, many of our users have a variety of fitness goals and not all of them can align with strictly cardio-focused workouts.
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Therefore, Cadoo has taken its first step towards strength training motivation! Push-up challenges have been added to the app.
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Using the camera on your own phone, you can record yourself doing your push-ups and upload them to a specific challenge.
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How Camera-Verified Push-Ups Work
How Does This Work?
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Using Guru’s AI platform, Cadoo is able to track your movements and count your push-ups for you! No manual entry required.
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With an AI technique known as “neural networks” which has been used to process hundreds of exercise videos so a push-up can be distinguished from any other movement. This way, we’re able to ensure push-up counts based on form. No cheating possible!
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Joint Tracking:
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Guru analyzes your video and finds the major joints on your body. These include your shoulders, knees, hips, and ankles. These points are used to create a wireframe of your body which tracks the movement of these key joints (and the space between them).
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Exercise Classification:
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As you move and complete your pushups, Guru is able to determine using the angles created with the skeleton wireframe what movements you’re doing and what exercise it is. If you’re doing push-ups, Guru will recognize this and count them.
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Since we use movement tracking, If someone attempts to do sit-ups or another movement while recording your activity, Guru will not count these as reps and they will not count towards your challenge.
Because every rep is verified from your video, your count is fair and hard to fake. If you want to understand how the AI grades a rep, read our guide on how Cadoo scores your form. And since Cadoo is money-motivated, hitting your push-up goal can pay off — here is how to get paid to exercise.
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More Strength Workouts On The Way
In the future, Cadoo is excited to be able to use this technology to verify other strength workouts, such as lunges, squats, burpees, and deadlifts!
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Stay tuned, even more awesome features are coming!
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Are you a fitness brand? Create your own branded fitness challenge at https://cadoo.games/cyoc
Cadoo works for everyone — whether you're a fitness brand looking to boost fitness brand marketing and engagement through branded fitness challenges, a corporate wellness program manager building employee wellness and workplace fitness challenge initiatives for team building fitness and employee engagement, a personal trainer or fitness professional motivating clients through group fitness and coaching, or a family looking for a family fitness challenge and community fitness experience. With real money on the line, Cadoo is the ultimate fitness motivation and workout accountability tool — the fitness challenge app where you get paid to exercise with money motivation fitness. Challenge your friends in a group fitness challenge, try fitness with friends, or start a neighborhood fitness movement. For brands, explore fitness sponsorship and fitness brand activation opportunities with fitness instructor partnerships.
Questions? Contact Tim Parsa, Co-Founder and CEO of Cadoo — the fitness gaming platform. Reach out at tim@cadoo.io
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I have to enter my push-up count manually?
No. Using the camera on your own phone, you record yourself doing your push-ups and upload them to a challenge, and Cadoo’s AI tracks your movements and counts your push-ups for you — no manual entry required.
Can I cheat the push-up counter?
No. Because Cadoo uses movement tracking, push-ups are counted based on form. If someone attempts to do sit-ups or another movement while recording, those reps will not be counted and will not count towards your challenge.
Which exercises can Cadoo verify with the camera?
CadooVision uses your phone camera and AI pose detection to count reps and score form for pushups, situps, squats, pullups, and dips. Steps and distance are tracked via device health (Apple Health / Google Health Connect).
How do I join a push-up challenge?
You can join a game in the Cadoo app or at cadoo.games. You can also host your own game and add a prize pool, with deposits via Stripe or PayPal.
Ready to put money on your push-ups? Join a challenge at cadoo.games.
