Earn Through Proof of Exercise | A Beginner's Guide to the Actifit DApp on the Steem Blockchain!

I was a little late to the party on the @actifit DApp. I heard of it a while back and kind of kept it on my distant radar, but I only started getting deeply interested in it about 2 weeks ago when I realized just how powerful it was and how great the community was becoming.

If you don't know anything about Actifit, then you're in the right place. When I started researching the Actifit DApp 2 weeks ago, I kept a lot of notes and wrote a lot of my initial questions.

I found that it was kind of hard to find the answers to all of my questions as a complete beginner in one place, so now I'm writing this to you as someone who's been actively learning and using @actifit for the past 2 weeks. Hopefully, I can answer your questions here and get you started with Actifit.

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Getting Started With Actifit

First things first, how do you get started with Actifit?

Download the app onto your mobile device. It's available on both Android and IOS (I'm using IOS). To get the latest version of the app, just head to one of the latest posts on the @actifit account, scroll to the bottom of the post, and look for the little icons that can take you to either the Google Play Store or the App Store. It looks like this:

click here to go to an @actifit post with these links in the signature

What I love about the Actifit app is the simplicity of it. There really isn't any sort of setup that you have to go through.

Once you have the app, just open it up and you'll see that it's tracking your steps, labeled "Total Activity Today".

At the end of the day, when you have all of your steps in for the day, just hit the button titled "Post to Steemit"

When you hit that button, it will ask you for your Steem username and your PRIVATE POSTING KEY.

There's no need for the app to have your active key because you aren't doing any transactions with it. You're simply using it to create a post onto the Steem blockchain. Therefore, do not enter your Active key. Private Posting Key ONLY!

Even if this key were to get compromised, your funds on the Steem blockchain would be inaccessible to the person with your private posting key. But again, I wouldn't worry about it. That's the beauty of having multi-level keys on the Steem blockchain!

The app will automatically fill in your steps for the day (Activity Count) and then it's up to you if you want to create a new post title and enter in your measurements. After that, just add some post tags and then some post content and then click "Post to Steemit".

After that, you can open the post on your favorite Steem interfaces (though some interfaces have been known to have a few issues. I choose to use the Steemit interface to edit my posts) and you can edit your post additionally from there. I like to change the thumbnail and sometimes add some additional info about the day like weight training and what I ate, etc.

Keep in mind that post content is a factor to your daily payout from the @actifit account. Thus, the better your content, the higher you will score within the Actifit system and the more your payout will be. Quality matters!

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Speaking of the rewards system...

Maximizing Your Rewards From @actifit!

This is something that I had to do some searching for and it took me a few days to realize a lot of this stuff. These are a few tips to help you maximize your effectiveness on the Actifit platform and earn the most possible AFIT tokens and @actifit upvotes.

1. Delegate to @actifit:

Delegating to the @actifit acccount is the fastest and most efficient way to stack AFIT tokens. There is currently ~220,000 SP delegated to @actifit. If you're wondering how many AFIT tokens a delegation will earn you, then use the following calculation:

"Since many ask, here we describe again an easy way to calculate your AFIT tokens for a full day of delegations: (Your Delegated SP) * 100,000 AFIT MAX / (Actifit Account Delegated SP - without account own SP and any delegators who opted out). So for instance if you had delegated 100 SP, your daily earnings would be around: 100 * 100,000 / 220,000 = 45.45 AFITs" (Source: @actifit)

To give you a real world example: I'm delegating 500SP to @actifit currently. My daily payout in AFIT tokens from this delegation is approximately 230 AFIT/day. Here's a screenshot from my actifit wallet:

Note: In addition to earning more AFIT for your delegation each day, you will also earn more @actifit upvotes on your daily report cards based on how much you have delegated.

Delegations have some sort of weighting in your overall user score, which impacts how much the @actifit account will upvote your daily report card, although I'm not sure of the exact calculation.

2. Daily Posts

The next method for earning AFIT tokens is to make 1 post every day through the Actifit app. There are a lot of factors that go into measuring how much you will earn for each daily post, but here are the key things that I think you should focus on to maximize your daily earnings through your posts:

1. Quality of your post (try to make your post unique by adding a few extra notes and charts and images and thumbnails. Creativity goes a long way)
2. Number of steps --> this is something that I was unaware of at first, but quickly learned. The minimum steps to get rewarded for a day is 5,000 steps. Earning closer to the 10,000 step level is what will allow you to earn even more AFIT on your posts. So if you're looking to maximize your daily rewards, aim for 10,000 steps per day!
3. Accumulated AFIT tokens --> again, I'm unsure of the exact calculation, but accumulating AFIT tokens in your wallet has an impact on your user score which has an impact on your daily payouts on posts
4. Delegation amount --> unsure of the exact calculation, but the amount you delegate to @actifit also impacts your user score and thus, impacts your daily rewards on posts. Additionally, having more delegated to @actifit will increase #3 by allowing you to accumulate AFIT tokens faster which adds to your user score as well

3. Write about Actifit

Quality posts about the Actifit itself will also result in rewards. I wrote a post a while back and accidentally stumbled upon this. You can see the @actifit comment from that post in the following screenshot from my previous post

150 AFIT tokens and an upvote from @actifit! That was an unexpected and much-appreciated surprise! This is a cool initiative by the Actifit team that will help to incentivize people to write about the app and promote the community! 150AFIT is approximately how much you'd earn from 3-4 days of delegating 100SP to @actifit. So it's no small amount!

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Hopefully this post can serve as a good introduction to the Actifit community and how you can do your best to earn and have fun with the DApp!

Actifit is one of the best DApps available on the Steem blockchain today (in my opinion). It's functioning, practical and it seamlessly integrates into your life.

You don't exactly have to go far out of your way to earn AFIT tokens, you can earn them by simply being active each day and posting your report card to Steemit! This is just how a DApp should work: integrate directly into your regular lifestyle without a huge barrier to entry!

If you have any questions about @actifit, feel free to leave them below and I'll answer as quickly as I can! Thanks for reading!