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Most people begin a new fitness program with great intentions and lots of motivation--only to find both waning within a few weeks. The realities of work, school, social and family demands overwhelm the desire to get fit, and exercise gets puts on the...  Read more

We begin a new fitness routine with the best of intentions—telling ourselves that we’ll hit the gym three times a week—but actually accomplishing what we set out to do can be harder than expected. Combining a busy work week with oth...  Read more

Have you ridden the Exercise Vortex? It’s the most popular fitness roller coaster of all time.   You go up, you go down. Fast fitness climbs are interrupted by burnout and steep drops in activity--until you bottom out and start a...  Read more

Remember when you were a kid and claimed that your dog ate your homework, when really you just didn't get around to writing your book report? Of course, your teacher knew you were fibbing. While most of us are past blaming the dog instead of taki...  Read more

Everyone's holding their wallets and purse strings a little tighter these days. But that doesn't mean that you have to give up on getting fit just because times are tight. Exercise can be easy to fit into your day, just as it can be inexpensi...  Read more

Hi everyone. I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, so I'm sorry if its not! But it said share your goals to help reach them...and I have a huge non-fitness related goal. I want to go to Africa. I'll be a senior in high schoo...  Read more

On the fitness tracker, there is an option to enter the number of calories burned per week. I wear a HRM when I work out, so I have a pretty good idea of how many calories I burn. My question is - why does it offer this option? Is it either ente...  Read more

Every time I go to change them, it redirects me to my weight set up with the red text: Before you can change your fitness goals, we need to get some information about your current weight. I've entered absolutely everything, current weight, height, t...  Read more

I am not receiving the right number of spark points for fitness minutes and haven't been for several days now. For instance, at 36 fitness minutes (all strength training type exercises) I have only received 2 spark points. What's up with this. I am a...  Read more

I am trying to add ST in water to my tracker. I follow the directions but when I go to enter it never takes. Any ideas on how to fix this? I am not interested in calorie count but would like to add the minutes. Thanks!...  Read more

Trick yourself into exercising by using the Wii or similar device. Get moving for a small amount of time and then build up to 60 plus minutes. Soon you will enjoy exercise and want to try other things....  Read more

Sign up to a gym/fitness centre near your place of work. Get changed at work if you can so there is no excuse of going home to get changed and then felling like you can't be bothered to go back out again....  Read more

A fantastic group for Stay at Home Moms. Find support from others like you. We have lot's of topics and weekly challenges....  Read more

You want to be a fit person, right? That's why I'm sharing my own habits for keeping fit and staying healthy in the ongoing Habits of Fit People series. Here's one that works for me: Keeping exercise equipment around the house. So why does something...  Read more

When economic times are tough, consumers have to find ways to tighten their wallets and trim spending. Although gym memberships and fancy home equipment are nice to have, often they become something we can no longer afford. According to new researc...  Read more