Fitness for Dummy (me).

I think it’s safe to say that in this day and age, everyone wants to be fit.  Fitness is everywhere: people jogging, gyms on every corner, self help CDs, DVDs, books, magazines, personal trainers, you name it.  It’s not much of a stretch to say that our fitness crazy is driven by Hollywood either.  You see beautiful people on the screen, and you want to have the life they have.

On a deeper level however, fitness is more than just simple beauty jealousy.  It starts that way for most, but I think in many cases it ends up being more about being generally healthy overall.  Once you start, you can’t stop.  You get addicted to the endorphins and then.. there ya go.  Fitness is the new drug of America.

So here’s my testimony to my own fitness.  I was poking around on a random runner’s blog site the other day and he mentioned how much it helped him.  It gave him documented goals and an enormous support network of people who came by and encouraged him.  While I have my own support network in real life, I did want to be able to encourage others in their goals too.  I was already tracking my exercise, food, and weight routines via spreadsheet, but I decided to put it all together here.

Going forward, on the first of each month, I’ll be posting stats here.  While I try to exercise in some form or another (swimming, hiking, lifting, etc) at least 5 times a week, there’s no way I have time to update this site that often.   Once a month I’ll post the latest figures from my spreadsheets and we’ll see how we go from there.   Even though there won’t necessarily be a new issue every month, you can always click the fitness tab on the front page to see the latest post.