Comments on Cranky Fitness: Make A Fortune in the Fitness Industry

My sister paid for one of those things for about a...

2009-05-16T23:56:00.000-04:00

My sister paid for one of those things for about a month. She told me if it were not for the hot african american drill instructor that she would have quit 5 minutes in and a hundred bucks down.

My sister paid for one of those programs for about...

2009-05-16T23:55:00.000-04:00

My sister paid for one of those programs for about a month. She told me if it weren't for the hot african american instructor she would have quit five minutes in and a hundred bucks down.

I like the functional fitness, because it is much ...

2009-05-14T18:03:00.000-04:00

I like the functional fitness, because it is much harder to cheat using my body weight than it is using handweights or barbell. I would never ever in a million years do any of this stuff if not in my body sculpting classes. But they can yell all they want, I'm nowhere near being able to do 50 straight leg pushups, or 20 modified burpees. I hate all those things, but grudgingly do them.

I yell at my husband all the time and I'm not gett...

2009-05-13T19:08:00.000-04:00

I yell at my husband all the time and I'm not getting any results. Guess this only work for fitness, eh? Or do I need to yell louder? Lemme know....

I don't think this functional fitness lark has rea...

2009-05-13T14:11:00.000-04:00

I don't think this functional fitness lark has reached Scotland yet. I might just be able to set up my own empire quick before everyone gets in on the act!

Some in the medical community are looking at funct...

2009-05-13T12:40:00.000-04:00

Some in the medical community are looking at functional medicine of which functional exercise is a component. Sort of like in the days of yore when you worked on the farm for exercise and the farmer and his wife gave birth to 27 children so they could all work on the farm too.
Funny how everything old is new again.

I've never been to South Dakota, but it sounds lik...

2009-05-13T11:54:00.000-04:00

I've never been to South Dakota, but it sounds like there's a lot going on there :)

Personal trainer? Hey, I paid the German Shepherd Rescue $120 for a personal trainer who gave me twice daily workouts for several years. Forget someone yelling at you to exercise, get someone who looks at you with those pleading brown eyes. Highly effective.

Some of us are on that functional fitness bandwago...

2009-05-13T10:19:00.000-04:00

Some of us are on that functional fitness bandwagon simply for the , uh, functionality of it. *smirk* I'm not willing to fork out huge amounts of money for a gym membership when the closest said gym is 40 miles away. Instead I make my own. Oh, and I'm broke since I'm building a new house. So I try to be creative with what I have.

But if anyone is looking for a couple days of training, I've got a house I'm painting and a new garden to till up and plant and tend to! You don't even need to pay me - just make your way to South Dakota!

A similar business idea I had years ago - a virtua...

2009-05-13T10:11:00.001-04:00

A similar business idea I had years ago - a virtual cleaning service. The idea is that almost everyone who has a weekly maid/cleaning service picks up/cleans the day before. So, you pay me to come to your house once a week. Your house gets clean.

heaving lifting? isn't that what husbands and boy...

2009-05-13T10:11:00.000-04:00

heaving lifting? isn't that what husbands and boyfriends are for? all that nasty manual labor?

*bats her eyelashes and reverts back to the helpless dainty femme fatale that works it to her benefit* lmao

Okay, now I am totally wanting to go buy some kitt...

2009-05-13T09:57:00.000-04:00

Okay, now I am totally wanting to go buy some kitty litter - who knew it was a workout! To think I always dread buying the stuff because it's just too darn heavy.

You know, I have had similar thoughts myself! Tha...

2009-05-13T08:57:00.000-04:00

You know, I have had similar thoughts myself! That my great-grandpa must be rolling in his grave watching me do fake axe chops in the gym when I could be doing the real deal and actually ending up with some firewood too;) Our society is funny sometimes!

I should have paid my kids for going to the metrop...

2009-05-13T08:00:00.000-04:00

I should have paid my kids for going to the metropark after school yesterday. We ran around for two hours, first on the fitness trail, then the playground. If it wasn't for their enthusiasm, I would probably have gotten bored and stayed half as long.

Cher, I think that totally makes sense! I just th...

2009-05-13T07:49:00.000-04:00

Cher, I think that totally makes sense! I just think it's funny that I personally would LOVE to have a trainer motivate me to exercise, but at the same time go completely out of my way to avoid any sort of physical "chore!"

And that's too funny, dragonmamma, about the Y instructor. You were totally onto the idea a year ago--you could be rich now!

A year ago one of the spin instructors at the Y wa...

2009-05-13T07:36:00.000-04:00

A year ago one of the spin instructors at the Y was changing apartments, and only one person helped her move. I told her she needed to put up a poster saying "One day Functional Fitness Session, only $20!" and she would have gotten at least a dozen people to help.

i hired a personal trainer because i knew for myse...

2009-05-13T07:34:00.000-04:00

i hired a personal trainer because i knew for myself i needed that voice. i needed that push, because i obviously wasn't pushing myself, and the fit-lacking family and friends i'm surrounded with were a recipe for disaster.

plus, i think we're more prone to take the advice from someone we get inspiration from. someone we see ourselves to want to be like. to have that drive, determination and motivation, where we lacked in ourselves.

i kind of see it as paying for an education.