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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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 I actually like a program...Submitted by MichaelAB (not verified) on February 8, 2006 - 6:59pm.
I actually like a program called Yourself!Fitness which is avalible for PC, Xbox and PS2. It is sort of like a custom personal trainer and it is much better than a workout video. You do an evaluation workout, then tell it your goals and what times you can comit towards the plan. When you log in to workout, it reads the time of the day and keeps asking how you are doing. More motivational talk, the less you feel up to it. The really nice thing is this. The PC version will run on a laptop, so you can take that with you, or you could even run a capture of the output from the last workout and then use that as your video while on a trip. The company has thought about putting that as a feature, but since I asked if they were considering it, they are going to see if it would be possible to do a release, maybe even to Ipod or PSP it, for those like me that don't want to carry a bunch on the trips if I don't have to do so. » POSTED IN:
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