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I think you're missing the point of Fitocracy. It's not to get badges. It's to share your progress and contribute to the journey of other people. Recipes, worko

I think you're missing the point of Fitocracy. It's not to get badges. It's to share your progress and contribute to the journey of other people. Recipes, workout plans, diets, all get shared. There are challenges for people to try new exercises, to expand their workout plan and learn new things. You may think you have skills and strengths far beyond the average user on the site. However, many users from /r/fitness have migrated over there and are making immense lifts. I've learned about foam rollers, bridges, and countless other things about fitness by being a member. The actual weightlifting may be an individual journey and challenge, but gym culture has always been a social activity. To dismiss the entire site because it has colored badges which are provided for entertainment seems ignorant.

ryanfitz 15y ago
I know for a fact that I don't have skills or strength beyond others, I'm not even the strongest guy at my local gym :) If my initial post came off that way, I didn't mean it like that. I just wanted to preface it that I have been involved with fitness for at least a few years, and I know the founders are definitely involved in fitness for many years. I'm not familiar with the /r/fitness people, but was more talking about the ironaddicts and anabolicminds of the world. Some of these people are definitely in the spend $1000's on supplements crowd, which is what I was replying about in jcampbell1's comment. I have not tried the site since it was first announced here, but at that time it was labeled as the rpg of fitness apps and did not appear to offer much in terms of routines, diet plans, nutrition tracking nor did I really think it was supposed to be aimed at that crowd.
- edkennedy 15y ago
  Ahh got it. I found your tone rather dismissive and read too much into it. Fitocracy is a primarily a social network and tracking service, the rpg aspect is secondary. I'm not sure how they plan to monetize it, but I'm sure they would make a lot of money with an ad service like PoF or Facebook.
  - ryanfitz 15y ago
    I do think informercials and many lousy fitness products have made me, as well as others, very quick to judge and write off most fitness products as gimmicky without much thought. It might not be fair, but its the world any fitness app must live in.

ryanfitz 15y ago

I know for a fact that I don't have skills or strength beyond others, I'm not even the strongest guy at my local gym :) If my initial post came off that way, I didn't mean it like that. I just wanted to preface it that I have been involved with fitness for at least a few years, and I know the founders are definitely involved in fitness for many years. I'm not familiar with the /r/fitness people, but was more talking about the ironaddicts and anabolicminds of the world. Some of these people are definitely in the spend $1000's on supplements crowd, which is what I was replying about in jcampbell1's comment. I have not tried the site since it was first announced here, but at that time it was labeled as the rpg of fitness apps and did not appear to offer much in terms of routines, diet plans, nutrition tracking nor did I really think it was supposed to be aimed at that crowd.

edkennedy 15y ago
Ahh got it. I found your tone rather dismissive and read too much into it. Fitocracy is a primarily a social network and tracking service, the rpg aspect is secondary. I'm not sure how they plan to monetize it, but I'm sure they would make a lot of money with an ad service like PoF or Facebook.
- ryanfitz 15y ago
  I do think informercials and many lousy fitness products have made me, as well as others, very quick to judge and write off most fitness products as gimmicky without much thought. It might not be fair, but its the world any fitness app must live in.