Get Fit Slowly

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This is a guest post from Gal Josefsberg, who writes about smart physical fitness at 60 in 3.
In late 2003, I reached my lowest point:

My career was at a dead end
I was in debt
I was 100lbs overweight

Mostly these things […]

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For years, my wife has limited her caffeine intake because it keeps her awake. She won’t even eat coffee ice cream for dessert because she loves her sleep so much. Recently, however, she decided that she was going to give it up and she quickly realized that she was addicted. Her only […]

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Following the strong admonitions of Get Fit Slowly readers, I’ve been adhering more closely to the Body for Life aerobics plan. At first I was playing the maverick, simply doing an hour of moderate aerobic exercise three times per week. Enough of you extolled the virtues of intervals (and the dangers of veering from BFL) […]

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I’m a big fan of my local paper: The Statesman Journal of Salem, OR. It’s a top notch publication with really in-depth news stories, a great layout, and hardly any typos…ever. They never rerun the same news story in different sections of the paper and they never forget to tell us […]

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Want to see what I’ll be doing at the end of the summer?
From Septemeber 6th to September 13th, I’ll be joining 2,000 other cyclists for Cycle Oregon, a week-long tour of rural Oregon. For years — for over a decade — I’ve wanted to do this. This year I’m going to. This is the second […]

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My wife and I are totally hooked on NBC’s “The Biggest Loser.”   I’m
embarrassed to admit it, but I’m addicted to a reality TV show. Every Tuesday night, we put the kids to bed at 8:00, spend a few minutes cleaning up the messes of the day, and head downstairs to catch […]

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My local Gold’s Gym is going through some growing pains it seems. It’s only been open since about September. This is both good and bad. The best thing about this is that the gym doesn’t have too many members–I never have to wait for any of the equipment that I want to […]

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This is a guest post from greenman2001.
For people who are sedentary and overeat, learning to eat properly and exercise are new skills. Diet books and the media don’t usually describe exercise and eating in this way: they’re often described as “lifestyle changes,” as though one could simply substitute one set of behaviors for […]

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Weight–199.2(-21.8)
BF%–27 (-3%)

I’m back from a great vacation–rested, relaxed, a little tanned, and no heavier than when I left! I didn’t weigh myself for two weeks, not once. It stressed me out a little bit at first, but I learned to cope with it. Not counting all the walking I did with a […]

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As most of you know, I’ve been following Bill Phillips’ Body for Life program for the past nine days. I like it. I can already tell a difference, not just in my physical well-being but in my mental well-being. I love to be able to feel the muscles in my thighs (instead of just the […]

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