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Do You Want Your Presidential Fitness Award?

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Did you ever try to get your Presidential Physical Fitness Award when you were in school? I vaguely remember trying to do it when I was in elementary school. There was one day in the gym where we had to do sit-ups and it was actually a competition, you had to keep going and going and going. I hated sit-ups, even if I was good at them. Anyway, I zoned out in the middle of the sit-ups and when I zoned back in, I’d done over a 100 and passed that portion of the physical. I don’t think I could … Continue reading →

Make Your Own Fun

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We talked about making fitness your own personal choice. Now let’s talk about making it your own personal fun. Because let’s be honest, no matter how much you may need to exercise and no matter how much you may tell yourself this is what you need to do – unless it’s fun, exercise can be a tedious, less than inspiring process. Who wants to do something tedious every day? I Hate To Do Dishes For most of my life, the household chore I have despised the most is doing dishes. It doesn’t matter that we own a dishwasher. It doesn’t … Continue reading →

Fitness Funnies and Motivators

Happy Friday everyone! The following are some fitness funnies and motivators that can be a great way to inspire you to hit your target workout on each day you have scheduled to get physical. I like to put these on sticky notes on my equipment or around my computer. They are little reminders of the human factor that we all share but sometimes forget to enjoy. From PUSH.tv trainer Bob Harper: I’m not perfect. Just like you, I get lazy too. Perfection isn’t the goal, persistence is. From Thomas Fuller, M.D.: Sickness is felt, but health not at all. From … Continue reading →

Fitness Funnies for Friday

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends. The advantage of exercising everyday is that you die healthier. Inside me there’s a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate her with four or five cupcakes. Chocolate is a vegetable. How, you ask? Chocolate is derived from cacao beans. Bean = vegetable. Sugar is derived from either sugar CANE or sugar BEETS. Both are plants, which places them in the vegetable category. Thus, chocolate is a vegetable. If you eat something and … Continue reading →