The Newest Member of LA Fitness?

June 23, 2011

I’ve been thinking for a while about joining a fitness center. I’ve written in the past about how I don’t think fitness club memberships are for everyone, but if you’re disciplined enough to make full use of it, then it may be worth it. It’s worth it for me. Why? I can swim laps, which [...]

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Portion and Serving Size: They are Not the Same

June 22, 2011

Sometimes I’m better at portion control than at other times. At restaurants, I often find that I really only need to eat half of what they serve me. If I’m really paying attention, I find that half of the portion will satisfy me. If I’m not paying attention, I’ll eat everything set before me. That’s [...]

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Two Ways to Beat Inertia and Get Moving

June 21, 2011

I’m currently writing my first book. Actually, I’m mostly not writing my first book. I have three chapters written, and now I’m a little stuck in some areas. I find that there are a lot of other things to do for Gather No Moss, and justifiably so, but the rub is that those other things are [...]

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5 Switches of Manliness: Physicality

June 20, 2011

A few months ago I found out about The Art of Manliness web site and podcast. Brett and Kate McKay are the brains behind this great concept, and between them and their guest writers, they’ve got some great information. This site writes plenty about physicality (not just “fitness”), and the article The 5 Switches of [...]

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You Are the Average!

June 16, 2011

You’ve probably heard this famous quotation from Jim Rohn: “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” Obviously, this is not a mathematical fact, but there is certainly some truth about how we are all influenced, for better or worse, by the people we spend time with. This is [...]

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Breaking News: Too Much TV is Bad for You!

June 15, 2011

It never ceases to amaze me when more research money is poured into studies to confirm the obvious. The results of this latest one were published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In a nutshell, the findings show that watching too much TV can be hazardous to your health. No kidding. [...]

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Blogging Your Way Out of Morbid Obesity

June 14, 2011

Don’t you hate it when you see someone that doesn’t even have to work at something to be successful at it? Perhaps you’re working your butt off and another person just seems to coast along, achieving the same as you (or more). I knew a guy like this in college. A bunch of us in [...]

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Sun Protection

June 10, 2011

For today’s post, I’m posting a helpful article about sun protection that was written by my friend Laura Crooks of You Bloom Wellness. For many of us summer means sun and being outdoors–and sun protection. We actually should think about sun protection all year long. Sun protection is a skill most of us could brush [...]

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Your Chair Wants to Kill You

June 6, 2011

In today’s The Virginian-Pilot newspaper there is a full-page article that says that we sit for an average of 9.3 hours per day. It also says a few other things that I’ve been saying and writing about for a few years. Here are the key ones: “The human body isn’t built to sit for long [...]

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10 Simple Family Fitness Ideas for the Summer

June 3, 2011

Now that Memorial Day is behind us and summer is knocking, I’d like to serve up some tips for helping your family get regular exercise over the next few months. If we’re not careful, our summer schedule will get booked solid, leaving little time for exercise. Don’t let summer become a free-for-all. Instead, make plans for [...]

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