I just did something a little depressing

[Lorelai]

... and scrolled through some of the pages of members while exploring around VF again. There are some members who haven't been active in almost 20 years! For some reason this list made me feel really sad. I think this is compounded by there being pretty little new DVD content made by my favorite instructors in the past 8 years... Or the DVDs that have been made have gotten hard to find because they weren't in print very long (like Ellen Barrett). I know DVDs are considered somewhat antiquated now, but seriously, so many people struggle with rural internet connections! I don't even live that far outside of a major city and I still have crappy options. I stream YouTube on my tablet for Jessica Smith mainly, because I love her as an instructor as well as her content, and I appreciate that she is still putting out some DVDs, but it's really not my favorite. I understand why so many are going to streaming etc, but I do wish more would at least offer downloads for those of us with bad internet. Anyway. I've been busy today cooking (hubby drives a truck over the road and I cook weekly for him so he isn't stuck eating junk out of truck stops) and cleaning, actively NOT working out, because it's too easy to do too much too soon when restarting. In my down time I've been browsing old posts to see what I've missed, and kind of lamenting how much busier this forum used to be. On a positive note, I did notice that the newest member joined today! Maybe some regular lurkers will even come out and say hi.

[Lorelai]

Also, I have NO IDEA how that yellow icon with the exclamation point got there.

[sherry7899]

Thank you for your post! I miss a lot of members who no longer post also. I am still wearing the incredibly soft socks (10 years later!) I received from Glamgal in the holiday gift exchange, and I was wondering how she is doing.

I wish old member would pop.back in.

[rhbrand]

I do often wonder why some people stopped posting.
I know a couple stopped cause they went on to other workouts and stopped doing dvd/streaming style workouts, hitting the gym etc. They just felt they now don't have anything really to say here cause they don't use dvds anymore.

[donellda]

Hi Laura. I have been a member for several years but have never really been a big poster. I have worked out with DVDs for many years and I come here for new ideas. There was a period of 2 to 3 years that I did not come here at all because of things going on in my life. I had a granddaughter who developed a rare childhood cancer which took her life and then my father, who had also been ill at the same time, passed away shortly after. If I did work out it was usually a short 15 minute workout. Life gets in the way.

I am back to doing my workouts but I am not fond of streaming workouts and finding new workouts on DVD is getting more difficult. I am looking forward to new Jessica Smith workouts when they are released. I occasionally will do a Youtube workout but I really do prefer workouts by DVD. I have been going back to some of my older DVDs but I am now in the "senior" years and need to be gentler on my body. Take care

[Lorelai]

Originally Posted by sherry7899

Thank you for your post! I miss a lot of members who no longer post also. I am still wearing the incredibly soft socks (10 years later!) I received from Glamgal in the holiday gift exchange, and I was wondering how she is doing.

I wish old member would pop.back in.

It's hard to know sometimes what happened because unlike the introduction thread, there isn't a farewell thread. I'm a little surprised not to see a bit if a resurgence of video fitness popularity with all that's been happening in the world, but maybe streaming/Zoom has taken its place for many (who have halfway decent internet anyway!). I remember GlamGal! I always liked reading her posts.

Originally Posted by rhbrand

I do often wonder why some people stopped posting.
I know a couple stopped cause they went on to other workouts and stopped doing dvd/streaming style workouts, hitting the gym etc. They just felt they now don't have anything really to say here cause they don't use dvds anymore.

That's definitely valid! I'm guilty of disappearing from VF when "life happened."

Originally Posted by donellda

Hi Laura. I have been a member for several years but have never really been a big poster. I have worked out with DVDs for many years and I come here for new ideas. There was a period of 2 to 3 years that I did not come here at all because of things going on in my life. I had a granddaughter who developed a rare childhood cancer which took her life and then my father, who had also been ill at the same time, passed away shortly after. If I did work out it was usually a short 15 minute workout. Life gets in the way.

I am back to doing my workouts but I am not fond of streaming workouts and finding new workouts on DVD is getting more difficult. I am looking forward to new Jessica Smith workouts when they are released. I occasionally will do a Youtube workout but I really do prefer workouts by DVD. I have been going back to some of my older DVDs but I am now in the "senior" years and need to be gentler on my body. Take care

Hi Donna! Thank you for posting! I'm so sorry to hear about your granddaughter, that's heartbreaking. I love Jessica's YouTube workouts. At one time I had downloaded and put several on DVD but over a few moves, they've disappeared. But perhaps I'll be able to do it again at some point. I really dislike using the tablet, although I do appreciate its portability. I've always been more motivated by "feel good" fitness so instructor like Ellen Barrett have always appealed to me.

As an aside, I noticed several members with a last visit date of N/A vs a concrete date (some very recent and others very much not recent). What does that mean?

[gigi]

Originally Posted by rhbrand

I do often wonder why some people stopped posting.
I know a couple stopped cause they went on to other workouts and stopped doing dvd/streaming style workouts, hitting the gym etc. They just felt they now don't have anything really to say here cause they don't use dvds anymore.

I came back after a few years in the gym. I have a huge box of DVD's (a TON of Cathe) but no DVD player. I can't bring myself to let them go. I subscribe to Cathe on and off. I recently subscribed to MOSSA and lately have been doing a lot of youtube workouts.

[Buzzer]

I'm here, but mostly in the check ins. I was active around the time that the mere mention of TA, or saying "bulking", or speaking ill of whatever was the instructor du jour was enough to get beaten to a pulp.

I do my workout DVD's, but whenever I have a question the workouts are old enough that I can find the answer doing a forum search. The lack of new workouts makes it tough to ask new questions!

I have a few friends that have fallen off the VF wagon, for various reasons, mostly life. I wish VF would welcome new vidiots, but apparently that is not an option anymore for whatever reason. I miss the old days of Red Panda and Kali, when we would go so off the rails on the "no buy" threads and would spend so much money on new workouts!!! Those were the biggest enabling threads!! I still have some workouts I bought from those days that I would be better off without! HA!

I do my DVD's, have a backup DVD, and some flash drives with various workouts that I don't use.

I miss the banter, I miss when someone would accidentally offend someone else they wouldn't be awful about it. They would gently say something, there would be an apology or whatever was necessary and it would be done. Now things are rehashed and rehashed and held on to. I am afraid to post too much because I am not careful with my words. They often sound different in the voice in your head than they are in the voice in mine!! So I hang out in the check in, where they know me and if I trip on words, they are very forgiving!!!