New site features

How best to motivate someone to keep up with his workouts? Penalize him $5 each time he misses one, for starters. Money always works, right? But as Levitt taught us in Freakonomics, monetary penalties also allow people to buy off their guilt. They subsititute an economic incentive for a moral one, oftentimes resulting in the opposite effect of the one that was intended.

So you add the element of peer pressure, and on a large scale. That's the idea behind the workout chart, designed to give all of you an inside look at our respective commitments to the routine. Not only does it show who's been making and missing workouts and how much each of us has accrued in penalties, it also includes a chat box for you all to use to encourage, or more likely ridicule, each of us as you track our progress. Feel free to check in as often as you'd like and drop us a line.

We've decided to wipe the slate clean, which really only affects Hubert, but starting today, any missed workout means $5 in the penalty jar, and maybe some barbs from the peanut gallery. :)

I also added a chat box, as well as a few other new features, to the SHHNHB page, so check it out. SHHNHB #3 tentatively scheduled for next week! Drew, you gonna be in town for it?