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 my wife, Pam, the fittest person I know.  I wish some of that would rub off on me.  Pam is trying to balance a full time family, a full time job, and a [...]

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On our vacation last week, Pam and I were responsible for planning, purchasing, and cooking the food.  OK, Pam planned and did a lot of the cooking, but I did make the mega shopping trip and cook my fair share.  My mother in law was responsible for bringing all of the beverages for the trip–including [...]

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Clive Thompson at Wired says that a fun way to lose weight is to turn dieting into a game. After watching one of his friends slim down with the Weight Watchers program, Thompson realized it was basically a type of role-playing game (RPG). He writes:

As with an RPG, you roll a virtual character, manage your [...]

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We returned home on Friday from a 5-night vacation to Diamond Lake, OR. While the vacation wasn’t as relaxing as I would have liked it to be, we still had a nice time. Yeah, there was rain, cold, wind, mosquitoes and kids trapped in small cabins. But there was also short hikes, [...]

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I’ve been negligent about the one hundred pushups challenge, both here and in Real Life. I stopped doing my pushups for a week, and it’s been a while since I updated my progress here.
As part of getting “back on the bus”, I’m remedying that situation today. I performed a one-time exhaustion test as a [...]

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While we’ve been off enjoying the splendors of mosquitoes, quaint cabins, and a beautiful lake in Southern Oregon, I managed to find a few really interesting articles that you might be interested in:
From the NYT–body size may be an unreliable indicator of health.
From CNN.com–coming soon to a drugstore near you…Exercise in a pill?
From Time.com–Where you [...]

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Yesterday was a good day. Finally.
The last month has been difficult for me, both mentally and physically. My mother has been in the hospital, I’ve been injured, and I’ve done a poor job of prioritizing fitness. If you think I’ve been whiney here, you should try living in my head!
“You need to go to the [...]

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I’m in a bit of a tight situation. Actually, tight isn’t the right word. You see, my clothes do not look good on me. They’re just too big. In November, I was wearing mostly size 36 waist pants, but even the one size 38 pair of pants that I reluctantly convinced [...]

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I’ve always loved the Olympics. Despite NBC’s uncanny ability to squeeze all the joy out of the games, I leave my self-imposed “no TV zone” every couple of years to watch the world’s top athletes compete. When I was a boy, I actually wanted to be one of those top athletes. (Though I had no [...]

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In personal finance, the Holy Grail of money seems to be “passive income”. When most people talk about passive income, they mean money that you earn without any active involvement in the process. There are actually very few true sources of passive income (despite the promises of hucksters), and even those that do exist (rental [...]

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