You know, it’s been 18 months since the Fitness blog launched here at the Families.com. When I first began writing for it, I didn’t want it to be just another ubiquitous blog that told you how to exercise. I didn’t want to just post perfunctory entries each day that fulfilled some generic idea of what a fitness blog should be. I wanted to stamp my personality on it and I wanted to write the blog I wanted to read.
I have no quixotic ideas about fitness. Exercise is a simple thing and we hear day in and day out how we should be doing it. I wanted to publish new ideas. I wanted to participate in challenges. I wanted to abrogate bad ideas and fitness myths. I wanted to deliver as much information as I could on an as many fitness topics as I could and I still want to.
For all intents and purposes, I wanted to write a blog that you could read in Belize, Paris or Lincoln and still get as much use for it. I wanted to appeal to the stay at home parent, the office mom, the teacher, the coach, the businessman and more. The target audience of the blogs here at families.com is the families – but families come from all walks of life and comprise different demographics across the board.
We’ve talked about yo-yo fitness; we’ve talked about quid pro quo fitness and more. Yo-yo fitness, by the way, is a way of saying you knock yourself out one day and do nothing the next. You yo-yo back and forth about your fitness commitments. When I say quid pro quo fitness, I’m talking about what you get out of the effort you put in. You do get quid pro quo.
Ultimately, the fitness blog is my way of sharing not only my personal outlooks, but all the research and more at my fingertips. I do it so you don’t have to. Sometimes I think I do a great job and other times, I think an article about melissaphobia would be more interesting than details on how to perfect your crunches. Still – fitness isn’t a brown recluse spider – you don’t have to avoid it, watch out for it or protect yourself against it.
I could end this with a promise to reinvent the blog, but I have no intentions of reinventing this blog. We have added over 1200 entries here at the fitness blog since the launch in December of 2005 and I think we get better every month. I’m invigorated and I’m looking forward to the next 18 months. So thank you for reading the fitness blog – I write it for each and every one of you.
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