Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.

My name is Brock Armstrong and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

You've likely heard of massively multiplayer online gaming.

You know, games like World of Warcraft, Fortnite, Rift, or World of Tanks are all extremely popular in the gaming community,

but this idea of working with or against other people around the world from the safety of your

own home has spread to fitness and exercise. And I, for one, think this is pretty great.

Now, if you are a serious cyclist or runner and you're dedicated to your performance goals, then

you'll likely find yourself running or riding or lifting indoors at some point during the

year.

And traditionally, this has been a pretty boring affair that involves staring at a motivational poster on your wall while you're

trying to drown out the sound of your own heavy breathing with some rock and tunes.

But lately, there are a bunch of cool apps that certainly make your time on the trainer,

or what we like to call the Dreadmill, both more productive and more entertaining.

But before I get into those, let's talk psychology.

There's a term in psychology that's known as the audience effect.

And the audience effect is simply something that happens when a person's behavior changes

because they believe there is someone else watching

them. Now, these effects have been known about for well over 110 years, but the cognitive mechanisms

of this audience effect, while they still remain unclear. The earliest study that looked into

whether or not having an audience could affect a person's behavior

is found in the work of Triplett back in 1898, who found that cyclists were faster when

competing against each other than they were when they were just competing against themselves,

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