Fitocracy

So I have been giving fitocracy a try lately. It seems to be kinda like Sparkpeople meets Facebook. I am still trying to get the hang of it, but I have found some things that I really do like alot about it.

First, you level up! I am a big gamer and one of the draws of Fitocracy is that you can 'level up in real life'. You log your exercise and based on what it is you get experience points, and after X amount of experience points you level up. This has my inner gamer hooked already, now only if it had character classes too!

Second there are quests. Again my dwarf paladin is going crazy. You complete quests and receive badges in recognition of you effort. Quests are something exercise specific such as running a mile in under a certain time or doing certain exercises such as swimming, or dancing. I like this alot because it exposes me to different activities I might not normally do. Actually would never do is what I should say because I would never do something like dance for 1/2 hour and then jump rope for ten minutes. But to finish a quest I would!

However this is all based on the honor system. The website does not know if I jogged for an hour or not. This comes down to each persons personal code of ethics. Just like a video game it doesn't mean much other than bragging rights in the end, and cheating in this is only cheating yourself.

By the way I am level 5, and Muay Thai racks up some serious XP I went from level 2 completely skipped over level three to level 4!