I'm not the athletic type. Not even close. Even tho' I am physically active, getting and staying in shape via routine workouts is a tall order.
Last week, I paired up with
Thin Guy on a workout routine that seems to be working. Here's the gist of it:
- Both workout buddies need to complete and report a workout every 24 hours
- If one doesn't report a workout by that evening, the other has to complete their buddy's workout that evening (ick!)
- No early banking or making-ups of missed workouts
See how that works? For most of us, it's easy to not take time to take care of ourselves. It's easy to let ourselves down, but not so easy to let others down.
It's only day four for Team BWMB (
@ditucci figured it out), but thus far we're winning 4-0.

A couple tips:
- Twitter makes it easy to record your workouts. I do this by tweeting my status to @twitfit
- Pick a partner who knows your weaknesses that are likely to sabotage your cadence. Mine just effectively pulled me out of the vortex of distraction:

Proud to be your virtual workout buddy!
Posted by Thin Guy on March 16, 2009 at 05:04 PM MDT #
Hi there, I was wondering whether I too can find a paired-up buddy.
I do access Twitter and so far has been updating my updates there.
I wld appreciate if you can point me to the direction where there are others like me that is interested to find an virtual workout buddy?
Rgds,
Anna
znnskmy@twitter
Posted by Anna on May 10, 2009 at 11:30 PM MDT #
I am a first time mother and my son is eight months old. He is in the phase of his life that he wants constant attention. I work 6 days a week at <a href="http://www.stopaddiction.com">Narconon</a> drug rehab and my son goes to the nanny when I am at work. I can't afford to send him to the nanny's for longer periods of time because of the expense. How can I get a good work out in and manage my son. I am looking for results but can't spend 10 hours in the gym every week. I don't have 10 hours to keep the house clean much less have the perfect body. Any suggestions?
Posted by Megan on October 12, 2009 at 02:27 PM MDT #