All of these system work in different ways to achieve the same goal: to help your members get through their workouts. Your members are distracted by either sights or sounds, and this helps to keep them on track with their fitness programs. According to Garza of BroadcastVision, “Extended cardiovascular exercise is routine and boring for most people.
This is especially true for those new to fitness. Regardless of goals and intentions, boredom often leads to an early exit from fitness programs. Motivation is always an important consideration.”
With interactive systems, members can multi-task while exercising, and can use their workout time to check their stocks or catch up on correspondences.
In addition, tracking systems can work in conjunction with entertainment systems to complete the exercise-motivation circle. After working out while watching TV.
Your members can log their exercises and see their results from the days, weeks or months before.
One club member from New Brunswick, N.J., who uses the Asimba (Redwood City, Calif.) Internet-based training and tracking system says, “Before using [the] training program, I had no real direction when working out, and often had to push myself to get to the gym. [Now], I look forward to heading to the gym.”
Another club member in St. George, Utah, says about iFIT.com, a training website that is accessible through the console of NordicTrack (a division of Icon Health and Fitness in Logan, Utah) machines, “[This program] has motivated me to eat healthier and I feel motivated to workout.”