Tag: skills
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Loosen Up While You Fill Up Here is a fun piece Union 76 placed at the pump a few years ago. Did you see one of these? (They also had a kids’ guide to windshield-splattered bugs!) From .Zannah.’s mlkshk stream
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Quick, Easy, Healthy Snacks Anytime Fitness is a chain of gyms founded by Chuck Runyon, who co-wrote Working Out Sucks! (And Why It Doesn’t Have To). I’m not a big fan of “21-day kick-start plans” — I think it’s better to add in one small thing at a time than to risk burning out on…
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Active Commuting Has Many Benefits This stencil by Peter Drew, an Australia-based street artist, pulls no punches. An active commute does make it easier to manage your weight. It can also improve your quality of life in general — and, independently, a car commute can reduce your happiness. When drivers decided to switch to walking…
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Buzzfeed published an enormous (this is just a small detail — see it huge at their site!) infographic to show how to store food. These are a touch conservative, but hey with food safety that’s exactly how you want to be. More shelf-life information at Still Tasty.
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How Do I Get Abs? The short version: If you want people to see your abs, you need to get low (possibly super low) body fat. If you want people to have something to see when you’re that lean, you need to do resistance exercise that targets the ab muscles, to develop them. Many consider…
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Keeping in Touch With Fun When people tell me they hate exercise, I often find myself asking them, “Well, what’s fun? It’s OK to focus your activity on something fun.” When I was a kid, we had Little League and ballet class and soccer and so on, but we also did a lot of play,…
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A Refinement of BMI It’s usually not the number of pounds you weigh that indicates a risk for disease, but rather the percentage of those pounds that are made up of fat rather than muscle. BMI — body mass index — came into use in the 1970s when Ancel Keys proposed it as a reasonable…
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Where Do I Begin? If regular exercise or mindful eating are brand new for you, it can be overwhelming just to contemplate how to start. Ask a bunch of people who manage their weight successfully what their number-one suggestion is, and you get some highly specific answers: — "Figure out your TDEE using online calculators, and…
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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…