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The Fitness Blog Week in Review for December 23-29

It’s the last week of December and the last full week of 2006. We did our best to cover a multitude of subjects throughout 2006 and as we head into our second year, we are well aware of the fact that January is a key month for many people getting started on their fitness programs and diving wholeheartedly into their New Year’s Resolutions. We’ll do our best to be there for you and to answer all the questions that we can. So what did we talk about this week? Saturday, December 23 The Top Ten Best Fitness Gifts You Can … Continue reading →

How to Select Your Fitness Facility

As we mentioned New Year’s Resolutions – Where Do You Rank? Getting fit and losing weight are the two highest ranked New Year’s resolutions for those polled in various different online publications and newspapers. That being the case, if you want to get fit – your next thought is going to be how to get fit. For many people that means getting a membership at a fitness facility. So let’s spend some time on this today to help you out before January 1st rolls onto our calendars. How to Select Your Fitness Facility Decide what your fitness goals are – … Continue reading →

Memberships: Why is it so Hard to Cancel Them?

The frustrating part about becoming a member somewhere is that when you want to leave – it’s a lot harder than it was to join. In fact, sometimes it’s nearly impossible. I’ve had memberships where you were required to fax in a letter stating you were terminating the membership and then you would have to give them thirty days in which to process this termination – if you got billed in the intervening 30 days – oh well. I’ve had memberships where even when you faxed in the paperwork, they claimed to never receive it and you can fax it … Continue reading →

10,000 Steps and Counting: Those 2,000 Extra Steps

Checklist Before You Can Read This Blog: Did you buy your pedometer? Did you keep track of everything that you ate and all the steps that you took? Did you average the number of steps you take per day in a typical week? If you answered ‘yes’, you can keep reading! I hinted in last week’s blog that we were going to talk about increasing our average steps by 2,000. That’s your goal this week. Take your average from last week and increase it by 2,000 steps per day. When I first contemplated the idea of increasing the number of … Continue reading →