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MONTREAL David Sciacca wants to get you up and moving.

And he and his partners have come up with a fast, easy and free or fairly cheap way to do it. It free to join, has a Facebook page and a Twitter feed and encourages a sense of community.

It is similar to the idea of the Flash Mob, where people converge to do a particular activity, such as dance to a specific song. In this case, the idea applies to fitness in a studio, gym or outdoors.

The website gets news of the mobs from various sources the Training Mobs team finds some, others are recommended by their partners and still more are posted by trainers or regular fitness buffs.

got everything from Olympic athletes all the way to people that are essentially tying up their running shoes for the first time, Sciacca says of the members, which include about 10,000 in Montreal alone.

Other cities in Canada where the site has gained interest include Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa and even some Americans have posted workouts in their cities.

The website hooked Jessika Bertrand, who says she wasn particularly active when she went to her first mob about a year ago. Now she a regular user of the site and works out four to seven times a week.

done snowshoe yoga outside in the park, I done kickboxing mobs, I done parcours, I done running mobs, I have done Pilates, the energetic 23 year old university student said.

tried so many different ones crossfit, high intensity training, zoomba . . . . said meeting new people is definitely one of the advantages and something that helps keep the mobsters motivated.

think a lot of people get stuck on the motivation part. They buy gym memberships but then maybe after a month they get bored. With training mobs, you have that motivation aspect right there because your friends are going. likes the idea of having a website that can point her at new mobs.

think that fantastic because we do live in a time right now where everybody uses the Internet. Deboever, who has been a personal trainer for about 10 years and is now about to open a new gym, says the site helps to spread the word about physical fitness.

found it was a great way to start promoting physical activity to people, he said, noting more and more people are being drawn to his workout sessions since he began posting them.

started with five, six people and now it like an average of 20 people showing up each time so it really, really great. It a great tool if you want to promote yourself. if he saw any drawbacks, Deboever said people should be attentive to the quality of the trainer, saying some might be less qualified than others.

is so easy to spread the word that anybody could do it, he said. not sure if you talking to professionals or not. he also said the Training Mobs team was actively working to check out who was posting workouts on their site.

Sciacca said Training Mobs tends to approach studios, gyms and trainers that have been referred to them by such partners as the lululemon athletica sportswear company, which hooked up with the site to promote its yoga classes.

Others are recommended by members of the training mobs community and he said his team visits as many of the workouts as possible to see the trainers in action for themselves.

Sciacca said the site is also looking into adding a feedback section where mobsters can rate the nike australia mob, the mob leader and the facility where it was held.

However, he acknowledged it is difficult to monitor all the mobs and guarantee they are led by superstars given the fact that everyone can post and share mobs.

He and partner Jonas Caruana came up with the idea when they were figuring out what to do with their lives after they quit their high pressure jobs. Sciacca was an investment banker and Caruana was a management consultant.

were both working exceptionally long hours, Sciacca said in Cheap nike free run an interview. typical week Nike free austrlia online would be somewhere around the 90 hour mark. We stopped being physically active. time for workouts wasn their only problem. So was finding good workouts. The Internet was no help and that when they had their moment.

decided to take a crack at it ourselves, Sciacca said, explaining their goal was to make working out accessible, affordable, fun and easy to co ordinate.