Fitness 101 talk

Conversation started Dec 5, 2011 at 19:52.

user11126

Dec 5, 2011 19:52

maybe users don't have enough guidance on this site?

Ivo Flipse

in what sense?

user11126

that seems to be the model when people want to get fit and do exercise

user11126

they're probably expecting or want a program... like what other sites might offer

Ivo Flipse

perhaps we should try and make write a few kick ass answers

not sure if we should hijack existing posts for it though, if only because of the clutter of less awesome answers

but we could make some Fitness 101 questions where we try to write up a compilation of sources to give them the best guidance possible

user11126

and create tons of fake accounts and upvote them :P

Ivo Flipse

Dec 5, 2011 19:56

and suggestions on what the do next

we don't need that, we have Lauren and the Stack Exchange accounts

if the post is awesome, it'll get its attention

but I think we should write it on Google Docs or something of the like

because we don't want to people to come and see an early version and mentally check out, meeh don't care

user11126

fitness 101..... maybe intro to paleo, crossfit, starting strength

Ivo Flipse

For instance

user11126

how many times has berin paraphrased his starting strength write-up in his answers?

Ivo Flipse

I don't know, but we can ask him to proof read it to make sure he agrees

Lauren

fitness 101 sounds interesting

Ivo Flipse

Dec 5, 2011 19:59

and Greg

Lauren

would you want to do a series of blog posts?

or make it in the form of questions

Ivo Flipse

I would post them as actual questions, so we have to be a bit Jeopardy about it

Lauren

yeah

Ivo Flipse

and we could always reblog the one that get's the most attention

Lauren

a good way to do it would be to come up with a lis tof questions that would be good for that

and tag them all "fitness 101" or whatever

Ivo Flipse

Dec 5, 2011 20:00

getting mentioned on blog.SO helps, but it has to be worth the attention

Lauren

and then write one blog post about what Fitness 101 is

Ivo Flipse

Good point

user11126

that sounds like a good plan

Ivo Flipse

Perhaps I should spend my week off thinking about this, trying to come up with some drafts

hi @SimonSheehan :)

Lauren

like "we're developing this Fitness 101 program... it will be in the form of a series of Q&A... all posts in the series will be tagged Fitness 101"

@IvoFlipse sounds awesome

user11126

Dec 5, 2011 20:01

other sites kind of have that "getting started" kind of thing

Simon Sheehan

heya @IvoFlipse :)

Lauren

@IvoFlipse and we can all help ask/answer

if you want to start another gdoc

wher ewe can throw out ideas

Ivo Flipse

I mean how many users have we had that used Couch25k, but it would be great if they had the extra info that a running coach would tell you

Lauren

yeah for sure

Ivo Flipse

Here's the doc where we can gather up idea's for Fitness 101

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