Tag: gym
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Fat and Fit Sarah at Single, Fat, and Happy offers these tips for how to treat a fat person in a fitness class. 1. Don’t assume fat people are necessarily beginners. 2. If I wanted a personal cheerleader, I would have brought one to class. 3. I don’t need modifications for everything. 4. Don’t assume…
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Here is a fun toy — a calculator of estimated calorie burns for hundreds of activities from Primus Partners, a logistics company. This is part of Fitness Partner, a set of pages with general health information and calculators, described as a “labor of love.” 🙂 True calorie expenditures depend on many things — including your…
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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?…
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Shaking Off “Gymtimidation” If you’re making a new commitment to exercise, you’ll probably be active around other people, and that can cause anxiety. You may worry because you have a large weight-loss goal, get winded easily, or you can’t lift much weight. You may even have been the target of mean-spirited comments from others. Unfortunately,…
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I joined a gym! Now what? If you’re like roughly 80% of Americans, you’ve never had a gym membership. So what should you know the first time you go to the gym? Consider a “fact-finding mission”: You should probably visit a gym before you join, but if your needs are simple and the price is…