I wonder???????

truddy6647
truddy6647 Posts: 519 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
So since I have been using MFP I have found it to be very helpful. I just had another thought regarding those of us looking for someone to work out with. I wonder if doing skype work outs would be just as helpful. You would still have that commitment to meet said person and they could encourage you to push you a bit more while working out together. What do you all think?

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  • MsBookandTea
    MsBookandTea Posts: 39 Member
    Maybe someone feels the same way you do.

    I personally am weirded out by that, but I'm a weird person.. :blushing:
  • truddy6647
    truddy6647 Posts: 519 Member
    ahh well to each their own. I just thought that with the way technology is and the higher rates of success someone can have by having a work out partner, that doing it this way for a person who does not have one could ba an answer to a lacking area and there by increase their workouts and how hard they push themselves
  • withchaco
    withchaco Posts: 1,026 Member
    A skype workout session could get really weird with all the panting. :laugh:
  • jennyrebekka
    jennyrebekka Posts: 626 Member
    hhm.....i think that is actually a great idea........but i am too technologically backwards to even figure out how to hook it up. i did buy a webcam.....so maybe at some point i can figure out how to do it.
  • truddy6647
    truddy6647 Posts: 519 Member
    I don't know how to use skype either. I have heard it is pretty easy. But I've never used. Heck never used a webcam either. I just thought it would be a great idea. and I guess I'm open to it too. lol would have to learn how to use the stuff in order to do so though.
  • tommygirl15
    tommygirl15 Posts: 1,012 Member
    A skype workout session could get really weird with all the panting. :laugh:

    hahaha! Sorry but that really made me laugh :P
  • truddy6647
    truddy6647 Posts: 519 Member
    well in any case I still think it be useful for some
  • BBehnke84
    BBehnke84 Posts: 537 Member
    So since I have been using MFP I have found it to be very helpful. I just had another thought regarding those of us looking for someone to work out with. I wonder if doing skype work outs would be just as helpful. You would still have that commitment to meet said person and they could encourage you to push you a bit more while working out together. What do you all think?

    Haha I could see this being used other ways...
  • truddy6647
    truddy6647 Posts: 519 Member
    So since I have been using MFP I have found it to be very helpful. I just had another thought regarding those of us looking for someone to work out with. I wonder if doing skype work outs would be just as helpful. You would still have that commitment to meet said person and they could encourage you to push you a bit more while working out together. What do you all think?

    Haha I could see this being used other ways...

    I wasn't kidding and wasn't meaning for it to come off as being an inappropriate behavior type of thing
  • chubbygirl253
    chubbygirl253 Posts: 1,309 Member
    I can just picture me taking my laptop to the Y with me to skype my workout. Tripping over it when I take my R.I.P.P.E.D. class. Splashing on it when I do my water aerobics class. Trying to balance it on the elliptical and knocking it off. Dropping a weight on it in my HEAT class.

    Sounds disastrous. Are you by any chance a computer salesman or trying to drum up business for computer repair? Cuz that's where I see this heading.
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    It's a good idea, but I think I would feel really awkward trying to do it...for some reason, it seems more like vouyerism to me...
  • truddy6647
    truddy6647 Posts: 519 Member
    It's a good idea, but I think I would feel really awkward trying to do it...for some reason, it seems more like vouyerism to me...

    I don't understand why people are taking it like this. bussiness uses skype or other programs like this all the type to conduct meetings. Why can't people use them in their home not the gym as it would cause issues there, to workout doing yoga, or step aerobics or the same dvd together.
  • truddy6647
    truddy6647 Posts: 519 Member
    I can just picture me taking my laptop to the Y with me to skype my workout. Tripping over it when I take my R.I.P.P.E.D. class. Splashing on it when I do my water aerobics class. Trying to balance it on the elliptical and knocking it off. Dropping a weight on it in my HEAT class.

    Sounds disastrous. Are you by any chance a computer salesman or trying to drum up business for computer repair? Cuz that's where I see this heading.

    In my mind I was not thinking of those who go to a gym but those who want to do things like yoga or workout dvds while giving each other encouragement along the way. there are some who would work out hard and more often if they knew someone was there with them.
  • truddy6647
    truddy6647 Posts: 519 Member
    oh and no I am not a sales man. I am actually a full time grad student
  • chubbygirl253
    chubbygirl253 Posts: 1,309 Member
    oh and no I am not a sales man. I am actually a full time grad student
    well, I was mostly joking. Although I do see some logistical issues with it. Please don't take it personally. I think a lot of people might feel uncomfortable about someone watching them workout. In a group or at the gym there are lots of people working out so I don't feel "watched" but if I were on skype I would very much feel that way. All in all I think it would just be far simpler to actually work out with a friend or if you don't have any friends that work out, join a gym and make friends with someone there.
  • PamelaKuz
    PamelaKuz Posts: 191 Member
    I've thought about this too, I think it would be fun!

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