Online home-gym community?

April 19, 2010 9:04 AM

Is there an online community resource for bodyweight / minimal home-gym excercise and target-setting / tracking?

I was thinking something like http://hundredpushups.com/ only with more variety (yes, I'm aware the site is subtly sponsored; that's not too bad but surely there are fit nerds who have built their own site and just want 5 bucks or something?).

I'm using a cheap book that covers a range of bodyweight / cardio-vascular moves and workouts that goes from zero equipment through to weights and gym ball... I was hoping to find something that covers similar just to track progress, share acheivements, help with motivation etc.

posted by KMH to Health & Fitness (4 answers total)

Simplefit is a no-fuss bodyweight program that's quite easy to stick with. I'm not great at pull-ups, but there are lots of substitution exercises they go through.
posted by surenoproblem at 9:11 AM on April 19, 2010 [1 favorite]

Spark People is an online community. There are different groups you can join. Some are geographical, some are type-of-sport, some are new parent and so forth. It's free, and it's full of lots of information. And of course you can track progress and goals (some as simple as drinking 8 cups/water a day).

How you use it is pretty much dependent on what you want to get out of it, which makes it very low key.
posted by zizzle at 12:43 PM on April 19, 2010

I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for when you say "community," but there are a bunch of different training forums at stronglifts.com, including one for bodyweight training. For general strength training info, I highly recommend the forums at startingstrength.com.
posted by ludwig_van at 1:53 PM on April 19, 2010 [1 favorite]

Bodyrock.tv might be what you are look for bodyrock.tv
posted by medzmaestra at 2:55 AM on January 12, 2011