Get Fit Slowly

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• 1 Tim // Dec 29, 2007 at 8:48 am

  I’m all for fitting into old clothes again. After losing weight I went back and tried on some great old clothes that I’d, er, “outgrown.” I felt like I’d received an entire new wardrobe—free of charge!

• 2 kevin // Jan 9, 2008 at 2:49 pm

  JD-
  I’ve enjoyed your work on getrichslowly for a while now, and just stumbled on your companion site here. I’m concerned because it looks like this site is all about deprivation, and you are never going to get your goals by thinking about food and what you are missing out on.

  I want to point you to where I get my workouts from. They are incredible. Efficient. They really work. And all the info backing them up is free and right there on the website. Please check it out for a few hours, just reading the faq’s and “start here” part.

  And don’t forget to scale the workouts down if you decide to try it for a month.

  http://www.crossfit.com

  I’m not affiliated with this website in any way, other than as a very satisfied consumer of it’s information.

• 3 Michael // Jan 14, 2008 at 2:21 pm

  I see your archives page is a 404. I happen to be trying to use this same WP layout and I don’t understand how I get WP to build the archives page in an /archives subfolder. Or do I have to create my own page in the subfolder and manually build the archives?

• 4 Joy // Feb 12, 2008 at 9:07 am

  Just wondering if you guys were sharing your sparkpeople myspark page? Would be great to see your progress when we log on! Keep up the good work!

• 5 brooklynchick // Mar 20, 2008 at 2:51 am

  great article in the NYTimes about food writers struggling with weight:

  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/dining/19fat.html?em&ex=1206158400&en=3902d11ae3877632&ei=5087%0A

• 6 Michelle // Mar 20, 2008 at 9:46 am

  Thanks for having this site as well. Reading GetRichSlowly (recommended to me by my sister about a year ago as indispensable for my post-graduate financial aimlessness) has been a huge influence on me. This blog is also a great companion because it really drives home the points that fiscal & physical fitness both have the same sort of slow ascension in progress.

  So far I’ve spent less than $20 on fitness. I bought a yoga mat & two gallons of water with handles. I turn on some great tv after work every day and do yoga and jump rope for 2 hours a day. I lift the gallons of water — it’s as effective as the $20 weights at the store! These mornings, I roll out of bed and right onto my yoga mat and wake up while stretching.

  Getting fit on as little money as possible is the new step in my New Frugality. Thanks, guys!

• 7 paul schwend // Mar 25, 2008 at 2:04 am

  Your archive link is not working.

• 8 Irina@ mylifeandart.typepad.com // Apr 14, 2008 at 11:10 am

  LOL… Note to myslef: get some bottles of watter for my weights! What a great idea… Whoo-whooo.. Love it. I got my yoga mat from Freecycle.org

• 9 Jake // Apr 24, 2008 at 9:28 am

  Good luck guys!

  In 8 months during 2006, I went from doing no running at all to running 3 marathons and 1 50K, no walking during any of them.

  One marathon, meant to be training for the 50k — but ended up harder, was a grueling mountain marathon at 6-10k altitude.

  3 weeks after running the 50K, I ran and finished the Portland Marathon, for a total of 4 marathons, 1 50k, and several 5k’s and half marathons for 2006.

  I was running about one marathon a month, which is great because it means no long training runs. I’d just do “short” daily runs (between 3-6 miles) and recup between marathons.

  It’s no joke that it’s about 80% mental, and 20% conditioning.

  I’ll see you at the finish line in October…

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