Get Paid to workout: GymPact App

Read the fine print before you do this. When you go to the gym you get paid a whopping .50 and if you don't go you have to pay $5! Also if you go twice in one day it doesn't count the second time and I believe you have to be doing some sort of moving exercise in order for the app to register your activity like cardio. If you just lift it won't register the workout even though you're at the gym.

IMO it's not worth it.

Just an update: I've now been using GymPact for 4 weeks. My goals are 5 days at the gym (or my Jazzercise studio) and $10 for every day missed. (4 days at $5 was not enough of an incentive for me.) I have NOT missed a workout/week. I've made $11 total. Which, is a trip to the movie theater. Which is a wonderful TREAT for all of my hard work!

In the four weeks I've been doing this, I've only had ONE technology screw-up, which they emailed me about immediately and then fixed immediately. I did not have to pay any money for a "missed" workout. Lastly, I was able to email them about my Jazzercise studio and they added it to their database immediately.

So far, so happy. I also use this in conjunction with Dietbet, so money all around. If you are money motivated and need some fun and easy incentive for sticking to your goals, this is a great and easy way to do it. The App is no-muss, no-fuss. There is basically no website. Love it.

Read the fine print before you do this. When you go to the gym you get paid a whopping .50 and if you don't go you have to pay $5! Also if you go twice in one day it doesn't count the second time and I believe you have to be doing some sort of moving exercise in order for the app to register your activity like cardio. If you just lift it won't register the workout even though you're at the gym.

IMO it's not worth it.

Ok I have to contest this:

1: I work out 4 times a week with gympact and this last week I made $2.20 that averages out to a free 114USD a year. For what I was doing anyway. Potentially being charged five bucks is a GREAT motivation for me to get off my *kitten*. "Is sleeping in worth 5 bucks? HELL NO."

2: If you check into a gym, gympact just counts how long you're in the gym, not what you're doing.
If you just lift but you are checked into the gym, you WILL get your workout. You don't have to do anything other than check in. You can leave your phone in your locker and go swimming etc if you want.

If you're a runner outside or a walker or biker or anything else, you can link gympact to Runkeeper and as long as you cover more than 1 mile distance and the exercise takes 30 minutes or more, it will count as a workout.

If you're a DVD workout kind of person, there is the workout at home option. You put your phone in an armband and the accelerometer measures your movement, and plays a chime when you've completed 30 minutes of registered movement.

What happens when you go on vacation and decide not to work out for that week? Do you then suck it up and pay the $40? And if you're sick or injured and can't work out what then? I'm sure it won' t let you set the app to no exercise for the week. Sure $5 is "motivation' to get up and get moving but things happen and you can't always get to the gym or do some kind of exercise.

I thought about trying it but the signal in my gym is pretty bad and I was afraid I'd have trouble logging in sometimes. Anyway, my husband is the best at motivating me to go (either go or listen to him ***** about how he feels unhealthy.)

Update...i've been using GymPact now for 5 weeks. I really like it. The first couple of weeks, the app kept crashing, but I just sent in the failed workout report each time, and within 24 hours, my workout was logged for me. After the 4th time this happened THEY contacted me and asked me to update my app to the newer version. This fixed my problem entirely. During the time the app kept crashing, I was charged $5 for a missed workout, but I sent in the explanation and within 24 hours my money was refunded to me.

I work on a military installation, the gym and pool were not listed on the app, so I had to add them. It took two days to get them added to the list, but now they are there and ready to go. The app people actually called to verify because the app didn't think the gym should be quite that large! (You drag a square around a GPS map of the building to designate it as a gym)

The newer version hasn't crashed once. It logs all my workouts and I've made $9.08 iin 5 weeks. The point wasn't to earn money by working out, it was more of a penalty if I skipped. "Is it worth $5 to sleep in?" Nope! Like someone else said, it gives me a bit of extra money to give myself a treat...a trip to the movies, a new ball cap, or a new fitness band...etc, etc, etc.

I use Strava Run to keep track of my runs and bike rides. I just start the app, then start GymPact and off i go.

I don't see myself deleting my account with GymPact anytime soon.