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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
by 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 agoAhh 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 agoI 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.