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Working Out with the Web

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Working Out with the Web

The Internet is shaping up and so can you. As with many fields, the astonishing amount of available fitness and health information means that sorting through it can be a Herculean task. Organizations that promote fitness, manufacturers of fitness products online magazines by recognized fitness authorities, magazines that focus on fitness.
Topics, mail-order sources for fitness products, and medical organizations that do physiological research all have Web sites. In addition, you will find fitness forums and chat rooms where you can do everything from swap training tips to get (or give) recommendation for gyms in your community.
Several Web sites feature quizzes you can take to get an instant fitness program that would be generally suitable for individuals with particular characteristics. Questions include your age, height, weight, specific or general types of activities you enjoy,and/or the time you have available to work out. Enter your answers and a suggested program pops up on your screen, often at no cost. On other sites, you can sign on with a cybertrainer, who tailors a more customized exercise and diet program to your needs.You can e-mail your progress and any questions you might have. Your trainer will send suitable motivational messages via e-mail and will even provide personal responses to your specific questions. Such services run $15 to $20 a month.
TV exercise personality Covert Bailey offers personalized exercise and diet counseling on the Net (or over the phone). The Fitness Quickie is one session designed to jump-start a program and to provide guidelines to follow. Telecoaching is a six-session program in which clients speak to a personal coach once a week to help them stay on track, receive encouragement, and get answers to their questions.
Interactive CD-ROM fitness information is in its infancy. FitnessAge began with a CD-ROM that was marketed as a fitness-assessment tool but more recently moved over the Web. In 1999, Reebok introduced Powered by You, which it bragged is “a bold new fitness initiative: the first interactive CD-ROM featuring detailed, personalized fitness and nutritional information.” The CD-ROM was packaged with its top-of-the-line women’s training shoe. Undoubtedly, more companies will follow in Reebok’s steps.