Do you post your workouts on Facebook?

When i first started training a year ago I was posting every workout to FB mostly as an accountability thing for me to keep going.  Everybody's watching so I better work out today...

But after a month or so I realized that it was pretty annoying to people and like you said just showing off.  So now the only time I post anything on FB is a race result or some freaky good workout because I really am bragging at that point.  

I put up my monthly volume and usually announce when I finish a race.  I stopped including the results but I'll give it up if anyone asks. 

If I post about a workout, it's pretty vague and I usually leave out the time/distance. i.e. "Nice day for a bike ride until I swallowed Mothra."  Unless I did it with someone else, then I'll call them out for being awesome. i.e. "joker70 ran circles around me, which is why I ate his oatmeal creme pie."

That being said, I will 'like' updates from people who are starting out and posting their workouts. Positive reinforcement, right?

For me it's a meaningful hobby but I don't want to bore everyone else with every detail.  Think about that friend who posts everything they cooked for dinner or what latest adorable thing their dog did.  It's nice in moderation but they don't need confirmation that my life revolves around it

This comic pretty much sums it up for me: http://comicalconcept.com/illustrations/the-facebook-you

I've had my workouts automatically sent to FB (through Twitter) for years. I originally did it because I had a friend training for his first race and we were going to do it together. He wanted to see the workouts for motivation.

After we finished the race I just never turned off the feature. I get comments here and there on my workouts. I'm friends with a lot of BTers on FB so sometimes they'll comment there instead of inspire here.

Fast forward to earlier this year when the feature stopped working for some reason. I had tons of people ask me if something was wrong because they weren't seeing my daily workouts. I explained about the feature not working and I just hadn't taken the time to find out why. So, I posted whether anyone wanted to continue seeing my workouts because I didn't want to be an a@@hole about bragging about how great I am because I run everyday. The overwhelming response was that my friends wanted to see them. A lot of the said that seeing my workout was the motivation they needed to get out and do something themselves.

Just my 2 cents. YMMV

x2 Still don't understand why some poeple think we care. 

Duane

nope.

sometimes I'll post if I do a race.  Especially if it was a significant one.

+3 curmudgeon points.

I log my workouts on BT, and have it set up so that a summary is posted on Facebook automatically through Twitter. I've never had a friend complain about this, never thought it to be bragginng (certainly not the training I've been able to do lately), but have had several friends take inspiration from it, three of whom have started running because of it, and I have a cousin who has dropped 60 pounds and is training for her first half marathon, in part because of that source of inspiration.

The security issue I don't understand. Workouts are posted after the fact, I wouldn't post "I'm leaving now for a six-hour ride." Also with a wife, three teenage boys and three dogs the house is never vacant.

Posting every tri-related workout is as annoying to me as the guy from high school who post every p90x workout or the other friend who post every meal that is cooked for dinner.  I really don't care. 

Exactly.  Despite having over 3/4 of my friends involved in endurance sports, none of them post their workouts.  If one of them started, they'd quickly be "defriended".  It's their perogative to post whatever they want, but I don't have to read it. 

I post most of my workouts to FB.  I make the description short and include a link to the RunKeeper map that shows the activity.

Dozens of people have told me they enjoy seeing my posts.  A few people have told me I'm an inspiration to them because of what I'm doing.  One friend in Dallas and another in Oregon have told me they started biking again after reading my posts.  There's one local lady who started swimming in April because of reading my posts.  I had one family member (distant family) ask me to add her to my friends list because she wanted to "guilt herself" into working out again.

And lastly, one of my real life FB friends has signed up for his first tri and did so because, "After reading your posts for 8 months I've just got to try this thing out."

So I'm firmly in the camp of posting workouts.  Add little tales when needed.  Be brief and just barely brag.  Mention when a workout felt really good and gloss over when workouts suck.  And, IMHO, don't dwell on minutia like heartrate, zones, etc.

The OP says, "When it's someone's who's been active for years, IMO it's showing off."  I don't feel that way.  FB posts are little snippets of what you do.  Working out and training daily and competing in triathlons is part of who you are and FB is about sharing who you are and what you do.

Lastly - remember moderation.  You only need to post 3-4 workouts a week—that comes out to about 150-200 more workouts per year than most people do.