AppleScripts to monitor and improve fitness

May 20, '05 09:29:00AM

Contributed by: leenoble_uk

Remember those 'bleep tapes' that they used to make you run against once a year in school to monitor fitness levels? Well, I set about making my own to listen to on my iPod. This script replicates the 'bleep tape,' enabling you to do shuttle runs at ever increasing speeds until you collapse on the floor and try not to vomit.

I then took it a stage further and developed this script, which is designed to improve your times over a circuit, preferably a circuit with a number of landmarks on it.

You'll end up with lots and lots of AIFF sound files, which you will need to import into iTunes. Beware that (particularly for the second script) you may well end up with a few hundred megabytes of sound files. It's probably a good idea to crunch these down in iTunes to MP3 or AAC before loading them onto your iPod. As suggested in the second script, you may also want to give each level an album name to make them easier to select, or use separate playlists.

Don't forget to turn off shuffle mode!

[robg adds: I haven't tested these...]

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