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Open Thread: The "43 Folders" of health and fitness sites?
Merlin Mann | Feb 8 2006
Over the last six months or so, I've gotten a lot of requests via email from people looking for (yes, thanks, more than one person called it this) "the 43 Folders of (health|exercise|fitness) sites." Naturally I set my Google fu in motion, fully expecting to turn up dozens of excellent sites on how to stay motivated about workouts, how to eat properly, and how to psych (or "hack," if you prefer) yourself into straightening out, losing weight, and getting that fat ass in motion. Funny thing: I came up pretty thin -- and not in that good, healthy, slender kind of thin way. In at least three sittings of searching over the past few months, I just did not turn up more than a couple of independent sites that really blew me away. Really surprising, and maybe I was just looking in the wrong places. Like under a 12-pack of beer and a rib roast. BUT. I'm sure they're out there, and I can't think of smarter people to ask than you, so you tell me: what's your favorite website or blog about getting healthy? What are your favorite apps for tracking progress and watching a diet? Who's got the best "health hacks?" Post your faves in comments and help your geeky friends get as theoretically fit as they are theoretically organized. 95 Comments
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No site to recommend but...Submitted by F_D (not verified) on February 8, 2006 - 5:55pm.
No site to recommend but a philosophy: I found that all the times I tried exercise plans in the past my approach was all wrong. It shouldn't be a chore and you shouldn't be out to lose weight. There should only ever be two goals for exercise: (1) Feel better! (2) Perform better. My old plans failed because I thought about the scale too much. Now I keep a log of how far I ran and in how much time (to keep a pace score). Once I started to approach it that way (accomplishing goal #2) it became something of a game (accomplishing most of #1) and I've kept on it for almost four months now. (A personal best.) It helps to have the attitude of I should AT LEAST have 20 minutes per day too. (Which, if you don't have 20 minutes per day to do something like this that you enjoy, you need to rethink your life, eh?) » POSTED IN:
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