Get Fit Slowly

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Do you tend to workout less often when the days get shorter, colder and wetter?  This has definitely happened to me in the past.  And this year I’m trying to find some ways to make sure it doesn’t happen [...]

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I haven’t felt ANY back pain in over a week now.  By the way, I typed that last sentence with one hand while knocking on the table with my other hand.  I haven’t done very much lifting in the last 6 weeks and since I can run on the treadmill at home, it’s hardly worth [...]

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Saturday morning was great.  Our family achieved the perfect balance of togetherness and what parents like to call “me time.”  Pam got up early for her “me time” and went for a run with her weekend running group, then went to work for a couple of hours.  When finished, she met the rest of us [...]

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It has been a long time since I posted here at Get Fit Slowly. Mac, my understanding friend and co-author, has been carrying the load for the past few weeks while I’ve been doing some soul-searching.
I have not given up on fitness. I haven’t even been gaining weight. I’m exercising (though not as much as [...]

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I’m happy to report that I have seen a small amount of progress on the scale so far in November.  Saturday morning, the scale read 189.6–the first time I’ve seen it under 190 in a long time.  It was nice to see, needless to say.  But I ran a bunch on the treadmill the night [...]

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Back in January when I joined the gym I paid for 6 private training sessions and loved them all.  You can search the archives for the workouts that we did together, but basically they were the type of workouts that belong to a class called “functional training.”  In a nutshell, “functional training” is a type [...]

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I apologize.  I’m sorry for the negative posts that I write.  For the woe is Mac, life’s so hard and stressful, and that’s why I’m fat stories.  I know, I sometimes write positive stories too;  I don’t apologize for those.  And I’m not saying that I won’t write any more negative stories because they’re helpful [...]

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Here’s a little tidbit that you probably don’t know about us.  Until yesterday, JD and Mac have never actually worked out together!  Isn’t that crazy?  Two guys who co-write a fitness blog have never worked out together.
From time to time, JD and I get together for a “business meeting.”  Originally, it was supposed to be [...]

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Something’s not right with my program.  I know just what it is, but I’m having a really difficult time solving the problem.  I’m an exercise fiend lately–I rarely miss an early morning gym session and I’ve been running almost every day.  My running goal for November is going very well.  I’ve taken one day off [...]

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One of the things that our garden did well this year was produce carrots.  We had massively thick and stubby carrots by the bunches and had to think of some ways to use them all up.  Pam found this awesome soup recipe that is low in fat, calories, sodium (if you lose reduced sodium broth) [...]

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