Podfitness!!!
- Thread starter carrie123
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Hi Carrie,
I have done 3 trials so far (I sent them feedback each time and they sent me an email inviting me to try again after making some changes. Some time ago they sent me a fourth invitation for a free month which I did not use.)
The good thing about them is that they really listen to feedback and work on improving the program.
Here is what I liked:
- Allows me to use my own music! I loved how it would pick up playlists from my itunes and use my favorite songs and mix them with an audio track from the instructor for the workout coaching.
- Some instructors (Jeanette Jenkins, Jody Olsen, Michael George and I cant remember the rest) had distinctive and fun workouts
- Their CS is great. They respond immediately. Cancelling is worry-free and efficient.
Here is what I did not like:
- For resistance training there would be too long pauses between sets. The voice over always pauses for 30 seconds to 1 min for you to get to the next machine or gather your equipment. This break was not warranted except after a really heavy/long set. Most of the time I would be ready earlier and have to wait.
- It was a bit robotic. Essentially podfitness has a large library of exercises )squats, lunges, stability ball based, plyo based....). What each instructor seems to do is pick from this library to put together a routine. Most workouts seemed pretty standard. The distinctiveness that you get when a instructor has more freedom to put together a routine was missing. The motivation cues too seem like they are generic lines from a library picked and inserted at random in the voiceover audio track.
- For resistance training the counting would be off beat from the music (naturally! the music is mine so they cant know the BPM) and that drove me nuts after years of being a vidiot and keeping to the tempo of the song while working out.
- The workouts in a series by an instructor hardly changed from one session to the next. There would be very minor changes in the exercises.
- No pulses, no isometric holds - all resistance training is only done to "straight" counts - again because of the concept of mixing audio on the fly to generate a workout
It worked better for machine cardio than for resistance training. I prefer Cardio coach and itrain for cardio.
I tried a couple of years (or more) ago. They may have made improvements since then.
I did not even keep the workouts I generated during the free trials.
What are your thoughts with the current version?
~* Vrinda *~
I have done 3 trials so far (I sent them feedback each time and they sent me an email inviting me to try again after making some changes. Some time ago they sent me a fourth invitation for a free month which I did not use.)
The good thing about them is that they really listen to feedback and work on improving the program.
Here is what I liked:
- Allows me to use my own music! I loved how it would pick up playlists from my itunes and use my favorite songs and mix them with an audio track from the instructor for the workout coaching.
- Some instructors (Jeanette Jenkins, Jody Olsen, Michael George and I cant remember the rest) had distinctive and fun workouts
- Their CS is great. They respond immediately. Cancelling is worry-free and efficient.
Here is what I did not like:
- For resistance training there would be too long pauses between sets. The voice over always pauses for 30 seconds to 1 min for you to get to the next machine or gather your equipment. This break was not warranted except after a really heavy/long set. Most of the time I would be ready earlier and have to wait.
- It was a bit robotic. Essentially podfitness has a large library of exercises )squats, lunges, stability ball based, plyo based....). What each instructor seems to do is pick from this library to put together a routine. Most workouts seemed pretty standard. The distinctiveness that you get when a instructor has more freedom to put together a routine was missing. The motivation cues too seem like they are generic lines from a library picked and inserted at random in the voiceover audio track.
- For resistance training the counting would be off beat from the music (naturally! the music is mine so they cant know the BPM) and that drove me nuts after years of being a vidiot and keeping to the tempo of the song while working out.
- The workouts in a series by an instructor hardly changed from one session to the next. There would be very minor changes in the exercises.
- No pulses, no isometric holds - all resistance training is only done to "straight" counts - again because of the concept of mixing audio on the fly to generate a workout
It worked better for machine cardio than for resistance training. I prefer Cardio coach and itrain for cardio.
I tried a couple of years (or more) ago. They may have made improvements since then.
I did not even keep the workouts I generated during the free trials.
What are your thoughts with the current version?
~* Vrinda *~