We freely admit that there's a heavy skew toward weightlifting on the site at the moment, but we're focusing on adding more quests/achievements around cardio and other activities quite shortly.
1st) Awesome Idea. I have no idea how many times I got in trouble as a kid for OD'ing on FF3 and 7. Now that I no longer play RPG's but do dig the gym, this is a great paralell.
2) Easy fix: Allow users to set which equipment they have when they first log on. Do it by classes: calisthenics only, bands and dumbbells, home gym, full gym etc etc. This way you can normalize the quests across different classes of equipment and eventually set up for competitions (random battle?!?! lol) between people with different classes of equipment but similar fitness levels according to whatever benchmarks you set.
All in all, looking forward to seeing how this turns out. Good luck!
We intend to build out functionality to let us offer programs around specific goals. The quest system is a precursor to this, but the idea is to have a fun way of offering structured guidance to the user and move them to specific outcomes.
And believe me, I'm in agreement with you about cardio. It's pretty worthless in many cases :)
I would vehemently disagree with the statement that it's "Facebook for gym rats" or that it doesn't provide value outside of updating your FB profile with your workout logs, but thanks for the opinion.
sorry if i sounded harsh. ok, it has specific badges and plenty of stuff for motivation, and i think that was your main goal. nothing that actually guides or facilitate, which was what i was expecting, maybe.
All of my running friends already post daily to their facebook status how many miles they've run that day.
