Audio workouts? What do you think?

tonymcclellan

tonymcclellan

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Well most people like to listen to music when they workout. Most people also like buying workout products to tell them what to do. What if you had both?

Audio tracks with the workouts in them? Would you be interested? This link (not to buy anything, not mine) gives an example of what I mean. Its for a kettlebell workout, but has instructions over music. What do you think?
 
I haven't listened to it....

but my buying criteria would be based on three things

1. The quality of the instruction.
2. The voice of the instructor (there are people who's voices just grate on me like fingernails on a blackboard - Denise Austin is one of those.... Get Sean Connery or Sam Eliot to do the voice over and all good...
3. The musical selection (i hate (c)rap, hip-hop, most current pop music -- so it'd have to be decent music...

it's honestly fairly easy to make your own recordings of stuff -I've made my own Lazy butt to movinf couch to 10K recordings.. because I didn't find anything I liked commercially...

anyone with a computer and 5 minutes could figure out how - so i'm not sure I see it as a real money maker...
 
Same thinking as Mal-

I know what I like musically and am not in the mood for the same thing every workout regardless of how much I like the music.

I have several playlists that I will cycle through at the gym depending on my mood.
I doubt I would look at it twice in a store/online.
 
there are also a lot of podcasts out there that do something similar... yoga instruction, meditation, weight lifting, diet advice - very few I've found interesting enough or helpful enough to subscribe to..

I'm a curmudgeon at heart - if someone's talking to me - i feel the need to argue with it a l ot of times.. and they frown on that at the gym :)
 
I'm not sure what I think of it. I'm sure it would cater to some people. But what doesn't?

I could see it being too rigid in its delivery leaving people feeling obligated to follow the same routine or the same handful of routines and never deviating regardless of how they feel.

I'm sure if you did it right there's ways to work around that but still...

I like programming to be as loose as possible while keeping in mind the factors that matter.
 
GLamour Magazine has had something similar on their site



(you need to sign in to download them but they are free)
 
You also have the option of no music, to which you can put over your own if you like.

What if there were say over 100 workouts to choose from? So the variety would be there.
 
I wouldn't trust people to not be retarded with that many workouts. Some stability in is needed for progression IMO. I suppose it depends, are we talking metabolic workouts here or what? Strength training?
 
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