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The Top 15 Most Helpful Fitness Blogs

August 2, 2010 By 27 Comments
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Hello everyone.  Today's article is a guest post from Hadley Jolley who is a guest blogger for My Dog Ate My Blog and a writer on distance education for Guide to Online Schools. ----- Keeping fit and healthy is a lifelong process. Unfortunately, not everybody does so or even knows how—and those who do often struggle to maintain the motivation to put in the energy to remain fit. However, blogs can help, both by providing general tips and tricks for exercising and time management, and also by providing inspiration for continued effort. The blogs listed below provide a wide range of … [Read more...]

Get Back on Track with your Fitness Training

September 29, 2008 By 3 Comments
A hungover woman spilling coffee

Recently I've been doing quite a few posts on fibre.  My plan was to continue writing about diet and nutrition but because of what has happened to me over the last week I decided to write about something different for this post. Let me explain a little further.  I took this week as a holiday from work.  Since I live with students in a student area, I imagined that there would be quite a bit of partying happening during my week off.  However, I thought that although I might be consuming a little (or even a lot) more alcohol my diet and exercise regime would not suffer.  Sure, maybe I … [Read more...]

5 Hilarious Excuses for Not Exercising

April 25, 2008 By 4 Comments

Hey everyone. Friday is here again. As I mentioned last Friday I was having a bit of an off day. This Friday was different and I managed to get to the gym and complete my workout with no motivation problems whatsoever. However, it got me thinking about the excuses some people use to avoid exercise. There are literally so many that I could probably use what I have heard to start a new 'Exercise Excuses Blog'. A lot of the excuses people use are pretty standard e.g. “I am too tired to exercise” or “I am too busy to workout” but some of the excuses are much more unique. Since it … [Read more...]

It’s OK to have an Off Day

April 18, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Well Friday is finally here which for many means the end of the week and time to enjoy the weekend. Unfortunately today was not my best day in terms of fitness goals. I did not eat very well today, felt tired for most of the day and in the gym I just seemed to have no motivation and ended up cutting my workout short. I was not feeling very good about myself as I had been so good all week and then let the ball drop today. However, then I came across an interesting article which made me feel a lot better. It included eight excellent fitness tips including the following gems; Should I cut … [Read more...]