Category Archives: Fitness

Face Your Food

Over at ZenHabits, there’s a great set of fitness tips – 14 Stress-Free Ways to Kick Weight Loss in the Butt.
A habit I have been working on personally speaks to three of Leo’s points:
3. Become aware of your hunger. This is one of the key things I’ve been learning. Many times we are not conscious [...]

Great Website For Bodyweight Exercises

I just came across a great little website centered around encouraging grassroots fitness through body weight exercises.  I am a big fan of bodyweight exercises myself, and gave up the gym a few years back in favor of them.  I have yet to regret the decision.  Between my own exercises, and those I use at [...]

Great Exercise Motiviational Tips Over At ZenHabits.net

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Leo, over at ZenHabits has made another damn fine post well worth the time it takes to read. Do yourself a favor, check it out.
31 Ways to Motivate Yourself to Exercise
My personal favorite points are:
1- How you feel after a workout. I always feel [...]

Learn to Live With Discomfort

I’ve come a fair distance in recovering my physical health and fitness over the last sixteen years. Down from a scale weight of 396 pounds to 190, give or take a five pound swing. My resting heart rate ha gone from 125 beats per minute to 52. My blood pressure has gone [...]

A Simple Non-Magic Method For Weightloss, or What I Learned While Losing 200 Pounds

When I was 21, I weighed 396 pounds. Today, at 37, I float around 190. It’s been a long, strange trip. I have tried a plethora of weight loss methods, schemes, tricks and regimes along the way. None of them were “it”. They all worked for a time, and then [...]