Chapter 1
The Idea Behind Treeceps
Greetings! My name is Dr. Fox. It's so nice to have you here! There are countless interesting things you will discover and learn while using this app. I have the fortune of explaining them to you!
Step by step I'll guide you through the app and provide you with tips and insights. After spending years analyzing Health, Psychology and Exercise science, I'm excited to share the most important lessons I learned with you!
I'm going to share exactly one new tip each day you visit the app, because I don’t want to overload you with information. I recommend coming back every day to learn something new!
All tips that I've shared with you previously are saved to your Gains Book. This way you can read up on them later at any time. Additionally, you can also mark the tips that were most helpful to you as a favorite.
Let's start with the topic of today: The idea behind Treeceps.
Did you know that according to the report on global health risks by the World Health Organization (WHO) physical inactivity is the 4th leading cause of mortality?
According to this study, approximately 31% of adults above the age of 15 are insufficiently active. About 3.2 million deaths each year are attributable to insufficient physical activity.
Being more physically active doesn't only increase your life expectancy, but also has many beneficial effects on your life and wellbeing. In future tips I'm going to tell you about some of those in more detail.
And when it comes to getting into the best shape of your life, increasing your daily activity has another effect that comes in very handy: You burn more calories!
To lose weight you have to burn more calories than you eat. A higher daily activity can help you increase the calories you burn and help you lose body fat.
Thus, the first goal of Treeceps is to motivate you to be active in your daily life. To achieve this, you'll find different gamified elements all over the app. They visualize your activity and react to it to incentivize you to be active.
Every one of these elements, such as producing grass through your steps that's consumed by Runimals, has a clear purpose and a scientific background. In future tips I'm going to explain to you all of these elements in detail.
The second goal of Treeceps is to strengthen your muscles through resistance training.; Resistance training, like being physically active, has profound health benefits and increases your quality of life and longevity.
Moreover, when you stick to it, it will lead to you looking fantastic as well as feeling fantastic! To achieve this goal, you'll learn how to train your muscles in the most effective way.
I think achieving progress in your resistance training always feels like leveling up yourself. Treeceps has emerged from this analogy. You will literally level up through tracking your training and be motivated by many different incentives.
To conclude, the idea of Treeceps is to incentivize two things: First, motivate you to increase your activity during every day life. Second, motivate you to build muscle by tracking your resistance training. A magical combination!
This is how you'll get into the shape of your life! It's near and dear to my heart that, on your journey, you learn how and why to live a fit life. This is what I'm here for! If you like, meet me tomorrow for the next tip!
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Dr. Fox explains all of this inside Treeceps, while your world grows with every session.