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Fitocracy update
Sep. 3rd, 2011 12:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resoluteSo far, the practical upshot of participating in the Fitocracy social exercise site, FOR ME, is as follows:
When I am at the Y choosing my cardio activity, I tend to pick rowing machine because it gives me more Fitocracy points.
When I am lifting weights, if I have done two exercises in a three-exercise quest, I will go and do the third exercise just to get the points for the quest.
When I am performing a lift, I use the barbell more than the dumbbells, and weights more than no weights, because it gives me more points.
I do more sets.
This effect will fade, I understand that my participation in the comm is a fad. But it is a USEFUL fad, if it makes me do more work.
Additionally, I *really* like getting props and comments from my friends. I like giving props, too.
The site is geared towards traditional definitions of exercise. If you do an hour of aerobic housework, you are out of luck.
You can find whatever groups you want, with whatever focus. Many people are in weight-loss comms, or competitive lifting comms. But I am in a Healthy At Every Size comm, and a I Kill Zombies comm, and a No Barbie Weights Here comm, among others.
So far, I like it. And, so far, it is making my workouts more ... strenuous, because I want the points.
When I am at the Y choosing my cardio activity, I tend to pick rowing machine because it gives me more Fitocracy points.
When I am lifting weights, if I have done two exercises in a three-exercise quest, I will go and do the third exercise just to get the points for the quest.
When I am performing a lift, I use the barbell more than the dumbbells, and weights more than no weights, because it gives me more points.
I do more sets.
This effect will fade, I understand that my participation in the comm is a fad. But it is a USEFUL fad, if it makes me do more work.
Additionally, I *really* like getting props and comments from my friends. I like giving props, too.
The site is geared towards traditional definitions of exercise. If you do an hour of aerobic housework, you are out of luck.
You can find whatever groups you want, with whatever focus. Many people are in weight-loss comms, or competitive lifting comms. But I am in a Healthy At Every Size comm, and a I Kill Zombies comm, and a No Barbie Weights Here comm, among others.
So far, I like it. And, so far, it is making my workouts more ... strenuous, because I want the points.