We’ve released an update to NextFitness today, (and new NextFitness software if you’re on a Mac). There are dozens of behind-the-scenes improvements and bug fixes, and it’s all because of your feedback.
Obviously, NextFitness doesn’t do “canned” workouts, so your workouts are built from our expert system to match what you are doing on a specific [...]

Today, Apple announced that they are dropping DRM from all of their music! We’ve spent three years railing against the way DRM locks you out of using your music the way you want (including with your workouts), so it’s a joyous day for NextFitness members.
Around here, we still love Amazon MP3, but if you’ve got a [...]

At some point, worrying about our health can become unhealthy in and of itself. This video speaks volumes, and it’s absolutely must-watch.
You don’t become the world’s richest man without being a bit eccentric. But this is pretty outrageous, and it’s something we never knew about Warren Buffett.
Warren Buffett is obsessed with weight. Obsessed as in [...]

Universally, the number one reason people give for not exercising is “I don’t have time”. 
But we know, deep down, this is only half true. Sure, if we all had unlimited time, many more of us would work out, but even with our compressed schedules, we find time to squeeze in other things that are important [...]

So our multi-year lawsuit with Apple is settled. After spending a lot of time and money defending our right to use the name “Pod”, we came to a settlement.
After the coin toss, it was decided that we’d have to change our name.*
The fact is, after 3 1/2 years, we’re no longer just a “downloadable iPod [...]

In the “highly interesting observations” department, look what an eagle-eyed observer noticed this week.
From our fitness profile:

And here’s an eerily similar set of qualifications from a new fitness site:

There are 2 scary things about this:

They couldn’t even keep the grammar intact. From seeing the site, spelling and grammar are not their strong suits, but they [...]

Today, we’re launching a new version of Podfitness for Mac. It’s completely rewritten, it’s a lot more stable, and is much less likely to be affected by future iTunes updates.
- Now works with iTunes 7.7.1
- Music selection is much faster and smoother
- Runs in menu bar, rather than in Dock
- “Percent complete” is now more [...]

If you haven’t seen Wall-E this summer, it’s required viewing. It’s not only a magnificent film, but it paints a vivid (if not subtle) picture of humanity’s future, and science is actually reinforcing this view.
A pretty disturbing new study by Johns Hopkins suggests that by 2030, 86 percent of Americans will be overweight or obese, [...]

There’s a new health drink in town, and Jackie Chan has a strict policy of supplying his patented face kick to those who ignore it.
So we made up the part where Jackie Chan will kick you in the face if you do not drink this tea. But he does want you to try it, and [...]

WARNING: This post contains images of extreme nerdiness. Proceed with due caution.
Friday, Chris Kluge and I went down to the Apple Store to pick up the new iPhone 3G. We wanted to make sure we got one in time to get back to Podfitness Home Base, so we went extra early.
We figured we’d be close [...]