You can find plenty of exercise tips and video demonstrations online, helping to make working out at home affordable and accessible without having to sign up and pay for a pricey gym membership and personal trainer. Unfortunately, like your Jane Fonda VHS tapes of yore, a lot of the Web content is infrequently updated and moves in a one-way direction, meaning that, with the exception for forums, you can’t ask your virtual trainers for feedback.
But a story from the Canadian Press is following a new trend of home exercises where users can stream live online fitness content and updated on-demand videos, creating a virtual gym within their homes. In addition to the convenience, these virtual gyms allow the gym-phobic to get fitness instruction without ever stepping foot in a facility.
Like a real gym, however, you will have to pay for the resource. But one gym profiled in the story, Flirty Girl Fitness, a women’s only center in Toronto, said that 6,000 people are using its online service, which features access to live classes.
The virtual gym won’t do much to encourage motivation, but it’s one less excuse you’ll have for not hitting the gym.
Winnipeg Free Press: Live online streaming brings the gym experience to home users