PrimeCondition.com

So I, along with a few other folks, have been working on a web app for quite some time now, and we decided to do the cliched thing and decloak out of stealth mode to (a) be finally upfront about what we've been doing and (b) allow people to signup if they're interested in the upcoming beta.

The site is www.primecondition.com. You use it to create custom audio exercise programs. Just build a workout the same way you might plan one on paper - enter your desired exercises, available equipment, your desired time, intensity and so on, and it combines custom music, sound effects / textures and voiceovers to build a set of completely personalized MP3 tracks you then download to your iPod (or whatever your mp3 weapon of choice is).

The custom audio has been great to play with. It's designed to match the timing to your speed - for example, lifting weights in a 2-seconds-up/2-seconds-down cadence, to make a routine easier. Or switching from a 5-minutes-slow, 5 minutes fast BPM speed if you're doing interval training. On a geek note I love working with audio in both a creative and technical sense - I used to write soundtracks for video games back in the early 90's and it's been great to get back into it again. We'll be going live with three genres of music, all mostly percussion-oriented: Cinematic (think movie trailer, Hans Zimmer-style), Edge (hard guitar, drums and industrial beats) and Tribal (world percussion). So many exercise products are so very middle-of-the-road when it comes to music. This one won't be.

There are obviously a bunch of features built around this core functionality, such as reporting and tracking (so you can figure out if something's actually working or not); you can rate and edit workouts, join and start groups, etc. but we're doing our best to not make this a “typical“ fitness product. First off, we're not “those” kind of people - I was interested in building this thing precisely because I'm not some steroided genetically gifted freakazoid whose sole existence is based around the gym, and to be honest I'm sick of the whole “fitness industry“ snake oil and the assumption that you need to pay $75/hour to some dimwit to be told how to do a pushup.

I know what I need to do; I think most people do. I just needed a way to make it part of my life.  Most of the motivation for creating this was to have a fun and useful way to structure it, to be accountable, to progress and to be able to stick to it. (For example, one of the features is your own custom podcast feed, so that you can automatically have your next workout downloaded to your device).

There are sites where a good use of tech can make your life easier. Hopefully this will workout to be one of them. 

Ah, it's nice to be finally be open about it, I've been working on the darn thing in various incarnations for a couple of years now. Take a look!