Getting Better One Step at a Time
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What Is a Good Heart Rate? The basic measure of heart rate is resting heart rate, taken when you’ve been still and quiet for an extended time — people often check this upon waking. This is the heart rate that gets very low in elite athletes. Lance Armstrong’s resting heart at his peak was said…
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36 Health and Fitness Lessons You Should Never Forget Here is a nice list of short observations to help form perspective around health and fitness goals. Armi Legge wrote these for “the fitness obsessed” as a way to help others avoid being miserable, the way he once was, but they’re helpful thoughts for anyone who…
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Forgive yourself and do better tomorrow. Shirt available at Woot.com — limit of 15 per customer! Bonus: Cookie Monster Asks, “Is Me Really Monster?” Well, is he?
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What If 2015 Is the Year You Keep Your Resolutions? New Year’s resolutions are more like famous last words, and it’s easy to get swamped by the scope of a goal like “lose 50 pounds,” or “get back in shape.” What can you do to make it stick this time around? The best changes you…
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What’s Your Overeating Personality? Walgreens offers this nice article by Diana Kelly about different ways to approach temptations to overeat, depending on how you tend to approach food: — The Mindless Muncher: who needs a little more awareness and can benefit from choosing smaller plates — The Disciplinarian: who has very rigid beliefs about food…
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The Seamy Underside of Runner’s High From MyModernNet comes these wonderful photos by Sacha Goldberger of people as they normally dress side by side with just having gone on a run. Another delightful set of side-by-sides: swimmers who all go to the same public pool shown side by side with photos of them dressed for…
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Useful Measures If you are just starting out with exercise and weight-loss goals, it seems obvious how to measure: step on the scale — but body weight is the least interesting part of the story. It doesn’t tell you how much of that is “extra” — fat you can afford to lose — or how…
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I’m terrible at estimating distances. I’m actually good at it in terms of my goals — my goal with distance exercise is to make sure I get a minimum, and so I always estimate in a way that ends up “over,” sometimes way over. But I get teased from time to time by other people…
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Televisions Exercising Their Antennas The New Yorker published this cartoon by John O’Brien in 1988. I guess today they’d all want to be flat screens!