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 [...]

This cool little tool allows you to browse iTunes for the music you’d like, then get it directly from Amazon to bypass DRM. This is especially useful to Podfitness users, so I thought I would share. It’s Mac only at the moment, but the second it’s available for Windows we’ll let you know.
Browse through the [...]

Great news for Podfitness users, Rhapsody has joined the likes of Amazon MP3 and Napster and removed all copy restrictions from their digital downloads. Songs from Sony, Warner, EMI and Universal are all available. As most of our users know Podfitness workouts don’t mix with songs that are copyright protected so this is another big [...]

According to a 2005 study, the music you listen to during your workout makes a BIG difference.
People work harder, have more fun, and lose more weight when they work out with music. If you’ve ever left your MP3 player at home and had to work out without music, you know exactly the difference it makes.
We [...]

First off, welcome back to the Podfitness Blog! Right now, we’re retooling our blog to be more relevant to what you, as a Podfitness member, care about, and we’d like to welcome our newest blogger, Heather.
One of the new features of our blog is the “Definitive Guide” series, a (mostly ironically-named) series of guides for [...]

I read an article in the New York Times about why working out to your favorite music helps you burn more calories. We here at Podfitness have known this for a while, in fact, it’s what we base our business model on.
This is all based in scientific evidence showing that when you listen to music [...]