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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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It's funny reading what the...Submitted by C9 (not verified) on February 9, 2006 - 11:57am.
It's funny reading what the responses have largely been. It just goes to show the real reality of the situation is a rather untapped resource. I'm an ex-trainer and the webs development has been rather slow to garner technologists. There have been a lot of opportunists but they generally don't last. What instead you see lasting is more billboard for a method or micro community sites. There is no social bound get your shit together platform. I've been helping people where I can on 43T and used to help on a number of subcommunities through LJ but there is a killer app lurking to be developed that track people, their metrics, their psychology, and bounds them with helpful social-community balanced thoughts. It's just not here yet, and won't be till more elements of the like and techno-savvyness arrive to do so. -a » POSTED IN:
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