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Fitness Magazine has teamed up with NEC to provide a Fitness Phone. For a monthly fee of $9.99 a month, you can have your personal trainer and dietician in your phone.

• NEC Fitness Phone
• Fitness Magazine

I don’t know what I think about this. I have a hard time imagining someone bringing their phone into the gym and referring to it for each exercise, checking them off as they go. I could do the same thing with Palm software, but I don’t want to bother bringing the thing into the gym with me. A piece of paper is so much easier and even that is a burden when I’m going from machine to machine.

Additionally, some gyms have cracked down on camera phones in locker rooms and this phone has a fully functional camera (including a light for low-light situations ?!). This just seems like technology gone wrong. It might be a helpful reminder to the forgetful, but when you are truly dedicated to putting yourself first, a Post-It Note will do.