Furniture -- beYou Yoga Mat

beYou interactive yoga and exercise mats are available for fun, exercise, stat-boosting and career path building.

## Warning (Old Mats)

**WARNING!! WARNING!! WARNING!! WARNING!! WARNING!! WARNING!! WARNING!!**

The older beYou Yoga & Exercise mats have been discontinued from being sold. They also limit how you use them. The new yoga and exercise mats are out now via your fellow beYou Citizens and can be purchased via the local markets page.

### Limitations of Old Mats

* Exercise session can only be completed once every 24 hours.
* Have to purchase multiples in order to fully get the benefit of their fitness points.
* Still would have to be replaced if using only for stats & fitness points.
* More expensive.

To see the features and benefits of the new mats, please continue to read this page (see specs then How They Work, below).

## The Mats (2023 & Onward)

Exercise & Yoga mats are made by the Textiles profession and sold via the beYou Local Markets page by individual use.

Each yoga or exercise mat purchased will come with two versions in the package:

### bY Yoga/Exercise Mat

* Fills one exercise session per use
* Increases dedication, energy, mana, reputation, and mood stats
* Decreases hygiene
* No copy
* Owner sets security through adjust menu
* **IMPORTANT**: The yoga/exercise mat with the 'bY-' prefix is the mat that will provide both stats and exercise session credit to your assets.

### Regular Yoga Mat

* Unlimited uses
* No stats given/no stats decreased
* Owner sets security through adjust menu
* Copiable (***hint***: *great for roleplay with people who don't use beYou or to open a studio with multiple people to roleplay with*)

Yoga and exercise mats will come in varying fabrics including: Cotton, Linen, Vinyl, Rubber & Hemp. Each fabric type will offer additional stats, depending on the grade of fabric used for the mat. Regardless of the fabric used, each mat will only count as one exercise session.

## How the bY Mats Work

Both versions of the mat included in the box have the same functions and serve the same purposes. However, the bY Yoga or Exercise Mat holds more benefit for beYou users as of where the regular mat benefits all as far as usage.

### beYou Yoga/Exercise Mat

The beYou yoga mat contains (1) 10-minute exercise session that will both boost your stats and count toward the exercise session requirement for your profession. If your profession requires fitness points, these exercise sessions can later be converted to accommodate (not available as of 03/2023). In addition, the following stats will receive a boost: dedication, energy, mana, reputation & mood.

You will use hygiene as you get dirty and sweaty - No Pain No Gain!

#### Exercise Sessions

As of March 2023, yoga and exercise mats will add a consumed exercise session to your assets instead of giving you fitness points.

Exercise sessions are assets that will stay collected in your assets until such time that they are needed toward your chosen profession(s). Those exercise sessions will be assigned to the first profession it detects on your account. Once that profession's exercise bubble is complete, the additional sessions will continue to fill the next profession and so on until they're all full. If the profession requires a fitness skill point, then the exercise sessions will be able to be converted.

Once the Fitness Point Converters are made available, you will be able to trade in exercise session consumes for fitness points when needed.

The person who completes the exercise session on the bY Yoga or bY Exercise Mat will receive the exercise session credit, NOT the owner of the mat. What this means is you have to stay on the mat the entire duration of the exercise sequence.

You may sit again and it will pick up where you left off when you return. But you won't receive the credit until the session is completed.

If you take the mat into your inventory after using a session, the timer will stop. Once rezzed again, the timer will start again to finish the 24 hours of wait time that it was at when you took it.

**IMPORTANT**: You can complete as many exercise sessions as you like in a day. However, once your task bubble is completed, you will not receive credits toward that level's requirement so only do what you need.

Once the exercise sessions are used up, the mat will continue to work but will not give stats or points.

##### Filling Profession Credits

Unlike previous exercise sessions, when you complete a session, the session will apply to the first profession your account sees on the back end. Once you complete the required number of sessions for that profession, it will then fill the next profession's credits that needs it on your account.

### Regular Yoga/Exercise Mat

The regular yoga/exercise mat is a rezzable, copiable, and useable yoga mat with unlimited uses.  It matches the beYou yoga mat in design and has the same sequences. The difference: it will not generate any stat or skill point boosts of any kind.

This mat can be used to enhance roleplay or to fill out a studio if you want to do yoga with friends or even to decorate a yoga classroom or studio; whatever you see fit.

## Menu & Security

Both mats contain the same menu below:

* Exercise - this will start your exercise sequence
* Anims - you can use this menu to cycle through the poses to see what each anim in the sequence looks like or to focus on one pose in particular for any purposes (like photography for example).  Note: cycling through the animations using this menu will not speed up the process of the sequence, nor will it award you any points when finished
* Adjust - where you can adjust each pose or set security using the following submenu options:
	+ Security - clicking this button will allow you to set access permissions between owner only, group access, and all (meaning anyone can use).
	+ Helper - this option will rezz a helper bar that will adjust the default poses for the pose selected on the mat.  This is for advanced pose users who are familiar with AVSitter. It is not recommended if you’re unfamiliar with how to use it.
	+ Pose - allows you to set personal saved settings for each pose so that when you sit on the same mat, you will always sit in that set position versus the default setting

Stay hydrated and keep your pain relievers near!

Happy Workout!!