Podfitness.com personal trainer service

Sports — 14 March 2006

Ready to turn that iPod of yours into a lean, mean, fat burning machine? Yeah, nor am I. But in case you are, podfitness.com is launching a personal trainer service this month for your iPod.

The service, which launches March 21, plans on giving you unlimited, customized personal taining sessions a month. The sessions will incorporate your own music and be customized based on your goals, current level, and available equipment. Or straight from podfitness.com’s mouth:

Podfitness creates downloadable, individualized, personalized audio workouts based on your goals and the equipment you have available. Just log in to www.podfitness.com and create your account, answer some simple questions about your fitness goals, and we’ll create a custom workout for you. You choose the trainer, style, and music. Your Podfitness coach steps you through your entire workout, tells you what to do, counts your reps, and keeps you moving, all while you listen to your music!

Watch out personal trainers, this seems a whole lot cheaper.

Podfitness Web Site

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Christen Costa

Grew up back East, got sick of the cold and headed West. Since I was small I have been pushing buttons - both electronic and human. With an insatiable need for tech I thought "why not start a blog focusing on technology, and use my dislikes and likes to post on gadgets."

gigi

I downloaded Alycea Ungaro, and loved her workout!! I decided to stick with her workout. However every time I downloaded her exercises her exercise was same one as previous one with little different order and comments. I kept downloading up to 20 work out, thinking it will change next time. I was wrong it’s still the same exercises. I even try to change exercise by saying work out was too easy, but no change. So I thought why not have one tape and say that’s it and ended up buying Alycea’s Book & CD from Amazon. So I can try next level.

I can not use music with yoga, pilates exercise because music gets too loud and I can’t hear instructions, so I download the sessions without music and they are now fine.

Their Yoga exercise can have very wired flow, like having savasana in a middle of exercise and having it again at the end. I tried 3 different yoga instructors some session are good, but they can all gets strange, and sometime instructions are hard to follow. Their workout are also repetitive as well. I decided to stay away from yoga & decided to stick with my baron baptist, yoga audio CD.

So far, I only downloaded about 5 sessions each of Body shaping workout with Kathy Smith and Kathy Kaehler. I love them both (their workout are similar but love them both) ! I’m not sure if their work out will start to repeat same exercises like the pilates workout. I hope it will not. Kathy Smith work out got harder with more reps when I did last. Good sign! It might workout fine.

I tried cardiovascular exercises. love them as well. Because of the nature of repetitiveness of cardio workout. I found I was using same audios again and again. I use easy, medium, or hard polar heart rate workout depending on my energy level. I realized I don’t need subscription for the cardio.

I have not had major downloading problem :)

Podfitness is fun but wired. I feel slightly, I’m wasting $ for the thing I don’t need to subscribe to. May be it’s enough if I subscribe for 3 month and say it’s enough. But there might be some exercises worth subscribing to… Well…I’ll see. (I wish I can say most of, or every exercises are worth the subscription.)
Brian Lund

I think it’s way cool what they’re doing – it gives an opportunity to keep motivated and at the same time have different workouts available. It’s also kind of cool that these are some of the best trainers in the world.