Fitness Motivation

The traditional prescriptions for a healthy life Sensible diet, exercise and control, extend life by reducing signaling through a specific pathway in the brain, according to Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers who discovered the connection while studying long-lived mice. They said their findings underscore the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and may also offer promising research directions for understanding and treating diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. Howard Hughes … [Read more...] about Why Diet and Exercise help you live longer

Here is a few more good Top 5 type articles from Top 5 - Group Writing Project Day 4 that I took part in a few days ago. Hope you enjoy them!   One writers reasons why Gluten free is the way to be Gluten Free Mommy » Top Five Reasons I Look Great on a Gluten Free Diet How to make real change Want To Make Real Change? Stop Making These 5 Mistakes   Top ways to get fit...one of many I might add. Top 5 Ways to Get (and Stay) Fit! Simple and beginning meditations The … [Read more...] about More top 5 fitness lists

As I mentioned yesterday there is a blog writing contest, well kind of a contest going on where people are writing articles on their top 5... whatever they want. I have included this list from that list to let you peruse other articles, mostly fitness, that I liked. Here is the home page for darrens blog writing project Top 5 - Group Writing Project Day 2 Great basics on staying or keeping in shape - with a great looking picture 5 Back-to-Basics Strategies For Renewing Your Energy at Ririan … [Read more...] about The best of the ProBlogger Top 5 lists

Paul Plakas is the fitness trainer on the TV show X-weighted. I have written about X-weighted before and the show itself is really good from the standpoint of the ideas. Paul Plakas tries his best on the show to help people from where they are now and their attitudes about food and exercise and one of the nice things about Paul is that he is tough on people. What tends to happen to most people it seems on X weighted is that they change their eating and exercise and of course the early returns … [Read more...] about I am not Paul Plakas

It is a good thing that this is just a fitness blog because otherwise this subject could really scale out to a book or two in length. What is your fitness excuse, why are you not eating or getting the exercise that you need? I have flogged this one a bit but back in December I broke the axle on the back wheel of my bike. Of course it was a little cold and a week until Christmas so I did not get it fixed. I spend January trying a couple of times to fix it and the giving up. In February I … [Read more...] about What is your fitness excuse