Get Fit and Make a Love Connection - Try a Blind Date at The Gym

Are you sick of being out of shape and single too? Why not fix both frustrations with this novel idea: Blind dating at the gym.

A company called BluePont is offering a service that lets you use your cell phone to find, well, let's call them workout buddies. Perhaps your match-up will turn into a love affair but at first, you're just going to get sweaty with your new friend while pumping a little iron.

Here's how the whole thing works: Sign up on the BluePont website, answer a few questions, and download some software to your phone. Before you know it, your phone will start buzzing with fitness matches in your area. Then it's up to you to send a text message to your pal-to-be about meeting up at the gym -- you could meet for a jog too, but in the spirit of safety, I suggest you keep your first encounter in a public venue.

Seem creepy? Not to everyone -- the BluePont site tells me there were 43 mobile match-ups on Thursday. I wonder how they're all working out?