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.
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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 help, including inspiration, tips, and the latest scientific findings about fitness.
1) Sussex Boot Camps Blog:- Run by two British personal trainers, this blog dovetails with the real-world boot camps the two writers run. It mostly focuses on general exercise and motivation tips.
2) Trying Fitness:- This blog’s tagline is “Because you’ve tried everything else”, and provides general tips about fitness, particularly for people who are not hard-core athletes. However, it also has interviews with pro athletes and links to free ebooks on fitness.
3) Weak Fitness:- Most posts on the Weak Fitness blog are Fitness tips—short ideas and facts about getting fit, especially for people who are just starting out. Their tips include what kinds of clothing to wear and the differences between different types of home exercise equipment.
4) Savvy Fitness:- Savvy Fitness is another blog that posts tips about exercise, like ways to add exercise to daily life. However, it posts advice about diet as well as about exercise.
5) Black Fitness Blog:- Written by Mike, this blog focuses on fitness and exercise as well from a black perspective. It often includes spotlights on black athletes and bodybuilders as well as general diet and exercise advice.
6) Obesity Panacea:- Obesity Panacea posts on fitness from a scientific perspective, including the latest finding about diet and exercise and their effects on health. As well, they dissect claims about diet and fitness products. They have recently moved blog sites; the large archives can be found here.
7) Beeble’s Fitness Blog:- Written by a personal trainer with periodic postings by other people, Beeble’s Fitness Blog is another blog with general fitness tips. It also has a series about the health benefits for various nutrients, like lactose.
8) Body and Fitness Blog:- Body and Fitness Blog is a blog devoted to supplements to help people become more fit, including acai berry—which the author is currently not finding to be particularly effective at weight loss. It also has general fitness tips.
9) Melinda’s Fitness Blog:- This blog is focused on nutrition and weight training specifically for women. Most of the posts are focused on nutrition, including a post a about local farmer’s markets.
10) Fatman Unleashed:- Fatman Unleash is both a blog and a “support community” where people trying to lose weight can gain inspiration and support from each other. The blog posts are organized into four sections: the personal fitness journey of the founder, nutrition, fitness, and mental health.
11) Well:- Well, run by Tara Parker-Pope, is a blog about health run by the New York Times. While its fitness content is only a part of what this blog covers, it does have many posts on fitness. The posts tend to be on recent news in health and fitness and not on general tips.
12) Workout Mommy:- Workout Mommy is a fitness blog with an emphasis on combining fitness with motherhood, and so has a focus on how to stay fit with a busy life and other commitments. It also periodically posts about other topics that interest the author, Lisa, a former personal trainer and “fitness junkie”.
13) Home Fitness Body:- Home Fitness Body is another website that focuses on tips for people who are just trying to get fit. It has a focus on diet, while it does promote exercise.
14) Gord’s Fitness Blog:- Gord’s Fitness Blog chronicles the fitness routine of Gords as he trains. He is mostly interested in biking and swimming. This blog is a good blog to go to for inspiration, not just tips.
15) Hot Exercise:- This blog’s tagline is “Fit for Life”, and it includes tips about how to exercise, including different workouts for different goals and tips on exercise for people with disabilities. It has tabs to sort out the content, which include “anti-ageing”, “exercise equipment”, and “the effects of exercise”.
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Hadley Jolley is a guest blogger for My Dog Ate My Blog and a writer on distance education for Guide to Online Schools.
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yes like your site how do i get bogs listing have been working out for 20 years and been personal training for some 12 years let me know from scott
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Tom Reply:
September 5th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Hey Scott – Thanks for the comment. I don’t quite understand your question? Could you rephrase it?
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Hey Tom I just wanted to drop you a quick line to say that I really appreciate seeing people take their passion for fitness and use it to help others online. I also really respect bloggers who mention other good blogs out there. It shows that you are a fitness professional who knows that there are other fitness points of view out there that have helped people as well. I have fitness blog at http://www.illuminategym.com/blog and we discuss fitness and the fitness industry on a whole. I have been a personal trainer and a gym franchise owner in the United States for quite some time and I look forward to looking throughout your blog for more fitness tips to pass onto our personal trainers and personal training clients at Illuminate Gym. Thanks so much!
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Tom Reply:
November 1st, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Thanks for getting in touch Dan. Looks like your business is doing really well. Keep up the good work.
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Hey Tom,
Please check out my popular Canadian fitness blog when you get a chance at:
http://blogs.canoe.ca/keepingfit/
Thanks.
Cary
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Tom Reply:
November 13th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
Hey Cary. I’ve just had a read of your latest article; “Five ways to warm up to fitness this winter”. Really enjoyed it – particularly the bit on maintaining a “glass half full mentality” as it is very difficult to stay motivated when it is cold and dark outside. It’ a really good blog.
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I found a few of your articles very informative I am looking forward to rading more.
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Tom Reply:
November 21st, 2010 at 3:52 am
Thanks Adam. Glad you like the site.
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Great articles thankyou for sharing was really informative!! Will look forward to reading more
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Tom Reply:
December 13th, 2010 at 2:29 am
Thanks for your comments Anthony. Like your site by the way.
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Hey Tom
Love the blog buddy :) keep up the good work! the same applies to the gym and natural food!
In fitness
Spencer
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Tom Reply:
December 13th, 2010 at 2:14 am
Glad you like the site Spencer. Thanks for the positive feedback. Just checked out your site too. Looks really good.
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Spencer Cuckney Reply:
December 13th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
Good stuff Tom ;) defo think the future lies in great bloggers like yourself……….if you need anything let me know as i have an absolute ton of content of just about style of training you can think of – these days pretty much into functional out doors stuff such as odd object training etc.
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Tom Reply:
December 17th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Hey Spencer. Well if you ever want to publish a guest post on functional out door training let me know and we can get something sorted.
Yup would love to Tom, can you email me at spencer@fitnessmaster.co.uk dude and let me know what you want and i will do :)
Cheers Buddy
S
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These are the useful information will help a lot of users. This article is very informative
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Tom Reply:
March 6th, 2011 at 2:22 am
Glad you enjoyed the article.
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Great list, just flicked thru a couple of sites and already seen some good info
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Tom Reply:
March 11th, 2011 at 12:42 am
Glad you found the list useful Paul.
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Hi there,
Great article on the top 15 most helful fitness blogs! It is always good to see other people’s work being appreciated and noticed!
Good karma I believe :)
This is a great blog you have here yourself. I have bookmarked it. It is always good to learn more about fitness. The body needs to be in shape for your mind to think clearly as well. There was a stage where I thought that I can get away with not looking after myself and still be good at my job but it quickly disagreed with me!
Thanks for the tips here and I will be sure to visit these blogs very soon.
Michael
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Tom Reply:
March 13th, 2011 at 7:41 pm
Thanks Michael. Glad you liked the article. I agree. Keeping fit helps you with almost all aspects of your life.
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hi Michael.
This is Very informative hub! I’m a vegetarian and watch my diet very carefully.
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Tom Reply:
March 20th, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Glad you found the website useful Walter. It’s Tom by the way – not Michael :-)
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good job tom i really liked it
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Tom Reply:
March 26th, 2011 at 12:43 am
Thanks Nail. Glad you enjoyed it.
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Excellent selection. Thanks for taking your time
Andreas
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Tom Reply:
June 17th, 2011 at 7:51 pm
Glad you liked the blogs Andreas.
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