Gymshout, the origins.

 
I have been a personal trainer for years now. I have been deeply involved in fitness for even longer. But as a personal trainer, the biggest challange you are faced with everyday is finding new and affective ways to motivate your clients to work hard and commit to a fit and  healthy lifestyle.

Basically you have to figure out what makes people tick.

But everyone is different so you have to find connections and commonalities that will work across the board. So eventually I found one, ACCOUNTABILITY.

I relized that accountability was actually the most common reason people even hire a personal trainer to begin with. Sure, there are peope that do it for other reason, but mostly it's to have someone there that they are commited to. They pay money and lock themselves into a contract so that they have to do it. A lot of people pay for a person(trainer) to tell them to do things that they already know how to do. Because once you have to be accountable for those session and appointments, it goes from "I should do this" to "I have to do this".

So how does this apply?

Gymshout, is the new platform for accountability.

I was in the gym one day helping my parents with a workout (yea they were pumpin iron). While listening to them talk throughout the workout, I realized that there can be more sources of accountability then the trainer. Each and every person has an unlimited number of sources, family, friends, why not the entire world? But obvioulsy all these people cannot see each and every workout that you do, and they aren't going to sit there and watch you throughout the day to yell at you when you are about to take that second piece of cake. So how??? The internet duh! 

But another thought accoured to me... some people don't like to broadcast exactly what they are doing and eating everyday due to a little bit of self consciousness and small insecurities. So what is the solution? I'll tell you by explaining Gymshout at the same time. 
When you input a workout or a meal into Gymshout, you immediately get positive or negative points for whatever you inputted. Then that score is posted to you "Board" for all of your "Buddies" to see. But the good part is that only the score is posted, not what you did to get that score. This is how the accountability comes back into the game: your "Buddies" (friends, family ect ect.) can see if you are doing good or bad based off of your score. That way you don't have to share exactly what you are doing alllllllll daaaaaaayyy looooooooong. :)
And then you can give that accountability right back and throw some competeitiveness in at the same time, (my little sister told me this the other day "hey Matt i saw you get 4 points yesterday, I bet I'm gonna beat ya today" (she did).

The point is Gymshout gives you accountability to put in the effort everyday, the competitivness to start some battles with friends and the social ability to share your health and fitness.