I very recently soft-launched http://www.physicalfix.com, my second start-up. While it is still very much a work in progress, I thought I'd share it here since health and fitness seems to be something HN cares about and also because I value the feedback this community can offer.<p>The basic premise is this: We provide you with highly personalized and customized streaming video workouts with a 'virtual training partner'. The partner will do the complete workout along with you and provide tips on proper form as well as provide some motivation.<p>We also have a food log, activity log, and weight chart. We tried to tie these all together so that when you do a workout it shows up in your activity log and when you enter some food it'll calculate your caloric balance and forecast your weight in the future.<p>We've got a ton of features planned like mobile apps, augmented reality workouts, an educational series to help people learn about health, fitness and nutrition as well integrations with things like the withings scale.<p>What do you guys think?
Looking briefly at your pricing plans, and having just done some in person personal training, I would like to have access to a personal training but don't necessarily need that access 24/7. If I could send an e-mail with a 24 hour response time or something with your basic plan that would be perfect.<p>Other than that it definitely looks good and I think could be a great alternative to spending $75 a session with a personal trainer at the gym.
So I'm supposed to bring my laptop into the gym with me?<p>I love the idea, but man would it feel awkward looking at a computer or my phone screen in the gym to make sure my benchpress technique is right.<p>If this is geared more towards body-weight exercises, what is your advantage over something like P90X or Insanity?
I put together a quick video for those wondering what the actual video workouts look like for the basic tier:
<a href="http://sproutvideo.com/videos/e898d2ba1d1de2cc60?type=hd" rel="nofollow">http://sproutvideo.com/videos/e898d2ba1d1de2cc60?type=hd</a><p>(hosted on my other start-up)
so it's sorta like buying a workout tape, except the exercises are personalized for you? that seems pretty clever and useful. i don't know much about this space... is anyone else doing this?