PodFitness.com - Custom Workouts on Your iPod

Podfitness.com is a paid service offering custom workouts via podcast, which mix your personal music collection with workouts from top trainers from Hollywood and across the globe. Podfitness takes your workout preferences – like how, when, and where you like to exercise – into account, and delivers a new, customized workout for you every time. Once you fill out a quick Fitness Profile, about what kind of shape you´re in and what your goals are, Podfitness suggests trainers and programs best fit to help you reach your goals.There are about 80 trainers working with the site, so there is plenty of variety to make sure you find the right trainer to guide and motivate you. Once you download your workout you can put it on you mp3 player and take it on the go. Your Podfitness coach walks you through your workout, even counting reps and offering motivation, while your personal music plays in the background.

"Podfitness is the world's first fully-customized audio workout system. Based on their fitness profile, selected goals, trainer, and equipment, users get a unique, custom-tailored workout plan. Each workout is individually built, then Podfitness actually combines music tracks from the users' Zune or iTunes library with each professional training session. It's a personal trainer in your ear, and there's nothing like it in the world. That's what sets Podfitness apart: Total customization for every user, every workout.”

People who want to get serious about getting in shape will find PodFitness to be much more economical than paying a personal trainer – you can get up to two personalized workouts per day for $19.95 per month, and there´s a free ten-day trial to help the site reel new customers in. Taking your workouts with you on your mp3 player offers a lot more flexibility than making appointments with a personal trainer, too.

Is a trainer on your mp3 player really going to provide the same kind of motivation as a personal trainer by your side would? Could the site offer its own workout soundtracks, if you don´t want to use your personal music collection? And is there any way they could incorporate nutrition advice, since healthy eating is such an important factor when you´re trying to get into shape?