I just read about a new thing that allows you to use your iPhone to watch workouts as you do them. I can’t decide if I think this is cool, or totally lame. I think I’m leaning toward lame. Here’s how it works. A company called PumpOne makes portable videos. They team up with the fitness experts at Men’s Health magazine to create step by step exercise routines and they film fitness models doing them.
Enter you, the customer. These routines walk you through what exercise to do and how to do it properly. You pay ten bucks per routine, download them on your iPhone, and Voila! You are an instant morphing of Steve Jobs and Denise Austin - a trend setting, gadget guru, walking, talking, lunging, squatting, fitness fanatic.
Why am I having a hard time being positive about this? Oh yeah, because I am a late tech adopter and resist and fear technology like it’s a bad case of the runs. But let’s think through this in an open-minded fashion.
I just don’t understand when and how people will be using it. (That was my attempt at being open minded.)
