Get Fit Slowly

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!About ten days ago, I had a rather depressing marathon training run. I had intended to run sixteen miles, but I could only make it three before pain in my knee forced me to quit. I then walked three [...]

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30 minutes a day, right? Well, according to researcher John Jakicic at the University of Pittsburgh, it’s more like 55 minutes a day if you want to lose weight. In his paper from the July 28th issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, Dr. Jakicic “suggests that obese people would have to exercise at [...]

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I was nervous when I joined the local gym last March. I was worried that I wouldn’t use the facilities enough to justify the cost. But I was also worried that I wouldn’t fit in. I visualized a crowd of preening lunkheads boasting about how much they could drink and which chick they scored with [...]

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Ever since Megan’s school got out for the summer, I’ve struggled with making gym time a priority. It’s easy to go when you have to watch one kid, but two makes it really tough. However, last week I realized that I need to get my butt back in gear, so I got [...]

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There’s been a couple of good posts this week by the guys in the fitness health network. All of us seem to be coming to grips with our weight loss plans. Here are a few of the entries that I found myself relating to this week.
I’ve found myself back in the gym lately, [...]

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This is it — the final daily update for the Get Fit Slowly one hundred pushup challenge. This is the end of the sixth week, but I’m not sure anyone has actually made it this far. (If you have, and if you do the 100 consecutive pushups in a day or two, please let us [...]

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On Tuesday’s discussion about defining fitness, I mentioned that my own pursuit of that ideal had been derailed. “I’ve been eating poorly and taking no exercise,” I wrote. “Tell us more,” said a couple of readers.
After Saturday morning’s aborted attempt at a sixteen mile run, I was feeling miserable. It wasn’t just that my physical [...]

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Yesterday was my daughter’s “half birthday.” I don’t really know where the idea came from, but somehow she got it in her head that half birthdays are almost as important as whole birthdays. Being the manipulative 3 and 1/2 year old, she finagled her mother into bringing home a box of brownie mix–and [...]

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It’s the penultimate day of the Get Fit Slowly one hundred pushup challenge — at least on the blog. I’m not aware of anyone doing the sixth week of this program, and that’s fine. After Friday, I’ll continue to post weekend updates until I’ve hit my 100th pushup. (I’m in week four right now.)
If [...]

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Earlier this month, I shared my thoughts on what it means to be fit.
“I have no clearer definition in my mind of what it means to be ‘fit’ than I do of what it means to be ‘rich’,” I wrote. “In some ways, I believe fitness is more about the journey than any destination.”
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