Category request: Fitness

December 1, 2008 11:38 AM

Category request: Fitness

Would it make sense to add this as a new category within ask.metafilter? I see 3-4 fitness questions a day, and they are always split between the health, sports, hobbies, & recreation, and grab bag. It can be hard to track down these questions, and not everybody tags questions correctly

posted by ShootTheMoon to feature requests at 11:38 AM (61 comments total)

This is an excellent idea.

I could use a guilt trip once in a while.
posted by ghost of a past number at 11:46 AM on December 1, 2008

Thirded. To me it makes the most sense for it to go into health (health & fitness, perhaps?) but I can see why people would also slot it into sports or recreation...
posted by Phire at 12:12 PM on December 1, 2008

sports, health, and fitness?
posted by blue_beetle at 12:24 PM on December 1, 2008 [3 favorites]

sports, health, fitness, and cookie recipes!
posted by Plutor at 12:29 PM on December 1, 2008 [3 favorites]

Yes, yes, yes, (please)!
posted by Rudy Gerner at 12:35 PM on December 1, 2008

YO, HOW ABOUT SPORTS, FITNESS, ROIDS, JUICE AND AGGRAVATED ASSAULT??????
posted by The Straightener at 12:53 PM on December 1, 2008 [2 favorites]

waits for the inevitable "cheerleading/chess/ballroom dancing is/is not a sport" argument.
posted by electroboy at 1:04 PM on December 1, 2008

ninfe-ded.
posted by cashman at 1:08 PM on December 1, 2008

Huh? Just use the tags.
posted by Eideteker at 1:19 PM on December 1, 2008

we could do the category like women's magazine covers: health, fitness, sex tips to keep him interested, and family-friendly simple recipes.

But seriously, awesome idea
posted by pointystick at 1:19 PM on December 1, 2008 [2 favorites]

Huh? Just use the tags.

Well, of course we can use the tags for our posts, but that doesn't mean everyone does.

I like renaming sports "sports and fitness" slightly better than a new category, mostly because a new category would spawn a thousand ZOMG WHAT ABOUT MY SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE CATEGORY posts.
posted by donnagirl at 1:27 PM on December 1, 2008

Even the fitness industry can't decide whether it belongs in sport and recreation or in health, but one thing is clear - they like to be identified separately as fitness either way, so this makes sense. Probably more sense than this comment.
posted by dg at 1:28 PM on December 1, 2008

dammit, I even previewed.

That should have been: I like renaming health to health and fitness...
posted by donnagirl at 1:29 PM on December 1, 2008

Can we have an w_abs= N_after / N_before tag for highly specialized snowflakes?
posted by kuujjuarapik at 1:33 PM on December 1, 2008

Inasmuch as we're a democracy, I vote for making health include fitness, and if some people think it should be in with sports, well, they're wrong and must be purged for the sake of our great purity.
posted by Tomorrowful at 1:34 PM on December 1, 2008

Could we also get a drugs and recreation category?
posted by Meatbomb at 1:38 PM on December 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

This is a great idea.
posted by spec80 at 1:43 PM on December 1, 2008

new category suggestions:

• unfitness
• Things the internet dared me to do with bacon
• Where can I find those expanding slacks, you know, like on the Simpsons
• Why do I get winded when I breathe

posted by boo_radley at 1:45 PM on December 1, 2008 [6 favorites]

new category suggestions:

unfitness

seconded! or it would be if I could get off the couch.
posted by jonmc at 1:47 PM on December 1, 2008

First new logos, now fitness. This isn't the Metafilter I grew up with.

*grumpily pushes aside co-workers between me and coffeepot*
posted by lukemeister at 1:52 PM on December 1, 2008

purple, monkey, dishwasher?
posted by blue_beetle at 2:10 PM on December 1, 2008

Call it Fatness and put recipes in there too.
posted by klangklangston at 2:29 PM on December 1, 2008 [4 favorites]

Call it Phatness and put questions about trainers and track suits in there too.
posted by klangklangston at 2:32 PM on December 1, 2008 [3 favorites]

*pictures klangklangston as Ali G*
posted by lukemeister at 2:35 PM on December 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

And dookie ropes. Gotta know 'bout my dookie ropes.
posted by klangklangston at 2:37 PM on December 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

Health & fitness it is! Let the grousing begin!

p.s. I can outrun you
posted by jessamyn at 2:48 PM on December 1, 2008

perhaps, but we've got dead aim.
posted by jonmc at 2:49 PM on December 1, 2008

p.s. I can outrun you

Only because our manly chests are covered with so many gold chains, jessamyn
posted by lukemeister at 2:54 PM on December 1, 2008

Call it Fratness and put questions about beer and paddles in there too.
posted by boo_radley at 3:00 PM on December 1, 2008

I can do this all night, klang.
posted by boo_radley at 3:04 PM on December 1, 2008

Where do I post when I have a problem because my jogging partner, who is also a member, makes an insulting rap song about an embarrassing secret of mine, then posts it to the front page in a self link, causing me to lose my job?
posted by Damn That Television at 3:05 PM on December 1, 2008

Who's fitter, Sarah Palin or Ludacris?
posted by lukemeister at 3:35 PM on December 1, 2008

Competetive bong creation.
posted by waraw at 3:40 PM on December 1, 2008

MetaFilter: Fit But We Know It
posted by Rock Steady at 3:40 PM on December 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

Call it Flatness and put the questions about British lodging in there too.

Call it Flintness and put the questions about Michael Moore's background in there too.

Call it Fretless and put the questions about jazz bass in there too.

Call it Witness and put the questions about Amish Harrison Ford in there too.

Call it Fitzmas and put the questions about Rove's indictment in there too.

Call it Mittness and put the questions about keeping hands warm in there too.

(Can you, Boo_Radley, can you?)
posted by klangklangston at 3:47 PM on December 1, 2008

Competetive bong creation.

Duuuuude...! you could totally make a killer bong out of a Jacuzzi...
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:48 PM on December 1, 2008

Call it Witless.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:49 PM on December 1, 2008

Metafilter: Witless Protection Program
posted by lukemeister at 3:51 PM on December 1, 2008

Have you tried putting half & half instead of milk on your frosted corn flakes? Oh. my. God.
posted by longsleeves at 3:51 PM on December 1, 2008

Sports, Health, Fitness, Segway, SUVs, TV Guide.
posted by turgid dahlia at 3:55 PM on December 1, 2008

klang: slow down with the punkakke, you'll die of strain.

Call it Flatness and put the questions about Mesas in there too.

Call it Flintness and put the questions about Hanna-Barbera cartoons in there too.

Call it Fretness and put the questions about anxiety in there too.

Call it Witness and put the questions about prosletyzing in there too.

Call it Fittsness and put the questions about UI Design in there too.

Call it Mittyness and put the questions about Thurber novels in there too.
posted by boo_radley at 4:09 PM on December 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

How about a category for tantrum type questions called 'Fits?'
posted by jonmc at 4:23 PM on December 1, 2008

jonmc: we call it metatalk.
posted by boo_radley at 4:26 PM on December 1, 2008 [2 favorites]

Bitness, bridles there too.

Bitness, videogame existentialism there too.

Brittness, his Hume-iness there too.

Fetness, archaic wellbeing there too.

Pittness, Brad there too.

Pitness, fall Harry, there too.

Flynness, corsair calisthenics there too.

Flanness, qualities of custard there too.

Finness, Scandinavian females there too.

Finish, wait no I'm not done
posted by klangklangston at 4:55 PM on December 1, 2008 [1 favorite]

Varnish, stop drinking it.
posted by box at 5:27 PM on December 1, 2008

Effitness, and we can capture defeatist abandonment of fitness regimens there too.
posted by cortex at 5:43 PM on December 1, 2008

Effeteness?
posted by klangklangston at 5:49 PM on December 1, 2008

For, uh, questions about wrist exercises?

Got nothin'.
posted by cortex at 5:50 PM on December 1, 2008

Eflatulence? (for farting over the web)
posted by jonmc at 7:16 PM on December 1, 2008

I could use a guilt trip once in a while.

Fuck that noise. Any post categorized 'Fitness' will simply remind me what a lazy-sack-of-Metafilter-addicted-shit I am.
posted by gman at 7:27 PM on December 1, 2008

Matters of manners.

Internet soirées.

Agnew insults.
posted by klangklangston at 7:29 PM on December 1, 2008

Why wasn't I constulted about this?
posted by lukemeister at 6:33 AM on December 2, 2008

Agnew insults.

Metafilter: Nattering nabobs of negativism
posted by lukemeister at 6:49 AM on December 2, 2008 [1 favorite]

klangklangston : Call it Phatness and put questions about trainers and track suits in there too.

"Phatness and Dopeness" would give us all of the above, plus things that are hip, things that are dopey and stuff about, you know, dope.

I'd probably spend a lot of time reading those questions.
posted by quin at 8:38 AM on December 2, 2008

whoop, I got distracted by L4D, you win, Klang.
posted by boo_radley at 9:19 AM on December 2, 2008

And pun to rule them!
posted by klangklangston at 12:24 PM on December 2, 2008

this isn't over, old man!

* disappears in a cloud of smoke
posted by boo_radley at 12:59 PM on December 2, 2008

Fitness? Get this crap out of "health" pronto. I am a doctor - I can't be bothered looking at questions about fitness. And neither can sick people! They're sick - how are they supposed to get fit!
posted by ikkyu2 at 10:43 PM on December 2, 2008

Well, as a counterpoint, fitness professionals tend to like to align themselves with health rather than sport and rec (some go as far as calling themselves "allied health professionals", but not too closely, because doctors have a tendency to pour cold water over their favourite crackpot theories about how the human body works.
posted by dg at 1:41 PM on December 3, 2008

I was also being sarcastic, if that is not immediately evident. Docs really do a crappy job of encouraging fitness. Pretty much if you're not sick enough to be in hospital, our work is done.
posted by ikkyu2 at 9:58 AM on December 6, 2008

So was I (I got that you were and tried to respond in kind).
posted by dg at 12:16 PM on December 7, 2008