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  • Save Your Calories — Save Yourself Last month Business Week posted an article with lots of quotes from the CEO of Coca-Cola. Sandy Douglas has been in senior management at the company for decades, including the era in which soda companies put vastly more refined sugar into the market in the form of larger and…

  • Body Shapes, a Handy Guide, by Gemma Correll, who also has a website and a Tumblr site.

  • What’s Better, Indoor or Outdoor Exercise? The treadmill is so reviled by outdoor runners, they have a special name for it: the Dreadmill. Some cyclists, like me, can’t quite understand what an indoor bike is even for 🙂 But this is really two questions: which activities are safer, or more efficient or strenuous as exercise?…

  • A Quick Workout You Can Do at Home Exercise science is a fine and intellectually fascinating thing. But sometimes you just want someone to lay out guidelines for how to put the newest fitness research into practice. An article in the May-June issue of the American College of Sports Medicine’s Health & Fitness Journal does…

  • This wonderful illustration is from Bones, a book for elementary-school students by Herbert S Zim. (1969: Wm Morrow & Co; artist: René Martin.)

  • Should I Hire a Personal Trainer? When you make a new commitment to exercise by joining a gym, you will usually be offered an orientation to the gym’s equipment, which generally includes some cardio machines (ellipticals, treadmills, stationary bikes, and sometimes rowing machines) and resistance machines. Some of the resistance machines may be oriented in…

  • Learning to Say “When!” Most of us know roughly which foods we should be eating more of, and which we should be eating less of, but that second category is just so darn tasty. Quitting cold turkey works for many people, but it can be impractical, especially if you’re not easily able to prepare almost…

  • Learning Fundamentals has as series of Mind Maps for thinking about complex issues. In addition to this one, they have others for motivation and getting things done in spite of distractions — almost 23 in all.