Archive for February, 2008

Never Skip Gym Again - Get Paid Just By Showing Up!

Never Skip Gym Again - Get Paid Just By Showing Up!Good intensions are sometimes hard to convert to action. Take for example gym training. It’s the most common training I usually skip. Whenever I’m busy at work or just feel tired, gym can be skipped with a half-of-a-second decision/promise (“I won’t go there today, tomorrow is better for me”). Then tomorrow comes, I get a sudden meeting request and there’s stuff to do, so I make the same decision/promise to myself. Then weeks later I notice I haven’t been doing weight training for ages!

Nobody Wants To Skip Gym But We All Do It

One way to hang on to the training plan is to train with a friend. I go to the gym with my colleagues as often as I can, but since we all have different daily routines, we have been switching the training days according to our changing schedules. And as there’s no specific gym day, it’s been easy to skip training if the others weren’t coming either.

One day I was at the gym with two of my colleagues and we were talking about that we should come there more often to get in shape before the summer. We were choosing which days we would dedicate for training and how could we motivate ourselves . Then the other colleague came up with an idea.

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Why You Should NOT Lose Weight

Lose Fat, Not WeightIn a previous post How To Ski 90 km In Just One Day I listed weight loss as one of the tasks to do before the race. I was weighing 104 kg at that time and now I’m at 99 kg, after one month. The weight loss didn’t happen accidentally, there were three things I did differently in January: I started exercising 3-4 times a week, I ate small portions during the day (I even started eating breakfast!) and I only ate sweets on weekends. After losing 5 kg I felt good!

Two weeks ago, I was googling for losing weight and I came across Tom Venuto’s site called BurnTheFat. I signed up for the free report called Big Fat Lies just to get more information about losing weight. Although I think I knew a thing or two about exercising, this report presented me something I hadn’t thought about - at least enough…

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