About 6 months ago, we decided to finally really push ourselves hard on the workout front and looked all over the place nearby in order to find a bootcamp – cross-fit style workout that we could do nearby. Neither of us like to get up early but we realized that the only way we could
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  We use FitBit in order to track our progress, but one of the things that FitBit does not do is track activity other than steps and floor climbs – in fact the next version of the FitBit tracker, the Flex, won’t even be able to track stairs, due to its wristband form factor. Having
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As part of our drive to get healthier, we went to a local bike store and each picked up some new bikes. For the longest time, I’ve never really spent a lot of money of bikes – I’ve always had a bike but I’ve never really had a decent one – the first time I
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We’ve read this in a few places and are trying really hard to get 7-8 hours of solid sleep in every night, but its true – lack of sleep really does contribute to weight gain – even from the – “if I stay up too late after dinner I’ll get hungry again and will want
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We are finally starting to see the fruits of our labor: real weight loss. Here is what we did: we used to drive to the gym and hit the recumbent bikes (Kitty has a bit of a knee problem) but instead we shrunk our time at the gym by using an (High Intensity Interval Training)
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I bought these a year ago when they were really hot and didn’t wear them for a while. When I started hiking with my kids I started with big heavy hiking shoes, then went to regular running shoes, then when we started Paleo I thought I’d start using these again. And now I love them! I hike
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We are both currently FitBit users, but are looking to upgrade to the Jawbone UP (which unfortunately does not yet have an Android version – which is a deal killer for us) or the next iteration of the FitBit. However, since we want to get deeper in the Quantified Self movement, the Basis looks really
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Found this the other day – not sure of the claims but it beat’s me up pretty good! 😉 [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AimPOSXe7n4] WORLD’S FASTEST WORKOUT Burns as many calories as a 40-60 minutes run. Makes your body adapt and improve very quickly. Increases metabolism for next 36 hrs Takes only FOUR minutes, no excuses. 0:00 –
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… whatever you happen to be using for your workouts… Personally I like to do a 20 minute workout which I found in Kettlebell Health and Fitness magazine I’m not even sure if that magazine is still being produced but it was a pretty damn good workout the 20/20 workout is named so because the
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