Add Physical Fitness to Your List of New Year's Resolutions This Year
January 6th 2008 10:14
Developing Our Writing Goals for 2008 Is a Great Start
As we enter a new year, each of us has our own personal list of writing, blogging, and marketing goals which we hope will make 2008 even better than 2007 was. And this is a wonderful thing! Each new year is like a brand new beginning--like starting fresh. It can help inspire us and jump-start our enthusiasm for using our creative gifts in exciting new ways, for branching out into new areas of endeavor, for building our brand, for marketing ourselves and our work with renewed vigor, and perhaps most exciting of all, for increasing our writing income.
But Intellectual Exercise Isn't Enough
The above are all excellent goals to focus our energies on in the new year. Yet, as most of us would be quick to admit, while writing is one of the most rewarding of intellectual endeavors, it is precisely that: intellectual, which translates into many hours spent seated before our computers doing research, planning, writing, editing, rewriting, seeking markets for, and selling our work. In other words, as wonderful as writing is--and as wonderful as it is that we can sell so much of our work online from the comfort of our home offices--writing is definitely not an activity that contributes to our physical fitness; and it can, in fact, detract from it, if we don't find ways to counteract the often excessive amounts of time we spend in front of our computers.
A Blog to Help You Add Physical Fitness to Your List of 2008 Goals
One way that we can help motivate ourselves to add physical fitness to our list of New Year's resolutions this year--and make it a resolution that we actually keep--is by visiting the Simply Fitness Blog, where we'll find posts such as the following to help move us toward better fitness in 2008:
27 Ways to Get Fit for Free
Fitness Motivation: 6 Simple Steps to the Point of No Return
Fitness Success Tip 1: Have a Plan
These three posts, along with the others offered on this great blog, can help inspire us to make fitness happen for us this year.
More Information on Fitness and Fitness Gear on the Main Website
In addition to the great advice you'll find on the Simply Fitness Blog, you'll also discover a ton of other excellent fitness information on the main site, SimplyFitnessGear.com. This site presents comprehensive info on and reviews of the many different types and brands of fitness gear available and can help you decide which equipment is right for your fitness needs.
The Fitness Equipment Quiz offered at SimplyFitnessGear.com can also help you determine which type of fitness gear will give you the workout you need, based on your own current level of fitness.
Two Sites to Give You the Fitness Info You Need
Even if you aren't in the market for fitness equipment, you'll learn a great deal from both the blog and the main site. If you'd like to develop your own exercise regimen but don't know quite where to begin, definitely check out the blog for information, motivation, and inspiration. If your goal is to learn more about the equipment you may currently be using--or not using--either at home or at the gym, be sure to look over the main site.
Simply Fitness might just provide the push you need to help you balance your current regimen of intellectual exercise with a whole new physical fitness routine, making you healthier, happier, and more creative in the new year.
To a happy and healthy 2008!
Jeanne
This is not a sponsored post.
Know any other great fitness websites that can help us keep fit in the new year? We'd love to hear about them!
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Comment by tlcorbin
Comment by Jeanne Dininni
Writer's Notes
Hope many writers will check out these sites and decide to make 2008 a year of greater physical fitness!
Thanks for the visit!
Jeanne
Comment by secretwritersbusiness
When I decided two years ago to lose 20kg and get fit, my whole life changed. I had energy, vitality and a sense of order and wonder about life that had eluded me until then. I think encouraging people - especially those of us who sit in front of our computers all day long - to take an hour out of the day to exercise, is a wonderful thing. Kudos to you.
And good health for 2008
Jo
Comment by AmyHuang
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Comment by Jeanne Dininni
Writer's Notes
Thanks so much for stopping by to share your experience with us! Perhaps it will help other writers see the great benefits that can be gained through exercise. Since writers often tend to be more mentally than physically active, I thought this a good reminder for all of us at the beginning of the new year.
The paradox about exercise is that, while we must expend energy to engage in it, we actually become invigorated by it! How's that for a good return on our investment!
Wishing you the best that 2008 has to offer!
Jeanne
Comment by Jeanne Dininni
Writer's Notes
Glad to hear that you're planning to get fitter in 2008! That's one of the best goals that anyone can aspire to!
One would think that the fast pace of modern life would make people more physically fit: but it doesn't really, partly because so much of our work is technology-based and can be done remotely, requiring a minimum of physical activity.
Add to that the high stress levels of the modern world, the unhealthy processed foods most of us consume on a more-or-less regular basis, and our lack of time, energy, and/or desire for exercise, and it's easy to see why so many illnesses plague us.
Best of luck "cutting yourself down to (your sister's) size" in 2008!
Jeanne
Comment by Lynn Smythe
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I spend WAY too much time playing with words and not enough time exercising. One of my resolutions is to find more time for exercising this year.
My husband (51) and I (44) started bike riding a few years ago. Now we are long distance road bikers - just did a 109 mile bike ride on November 17th to help raise funds for the Leukemia Society.
And we just signed up to do our local MS150 ride. This is a two day, 150 mile ride which takes place on May 3 & 4 in south Florida. This ride benefits the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
And to get more exercise in 2008 we decided to take up trail running. It's like jogging but off-road on unpaved trails, gravel roads. Anywhere there isn't any pavement but has a wonderful view - hiking trails, nature trails, etc...
Now that I've completed a couple of century bike rides (100 miles) I've kind of been thinking about possibly doing a marathon. But right now I can't even run 1 mile without passing out - definately uses a different set of muscles than biking!
Exercising is a great stress buster.
Take care,
Lynn
Comment by Jeanne Dininni
Writer's Notes
What a fantastic set of fitness goals you've lined up for 2008--and better still, you've already started implementing them! I must say I'm very impressed with both your past and planned long-distance bike riding events, not to mention the fact that you and your husband are riding for some really good causes--besides your own physical fitness! That's what I call maximizing output!
With trail running and marathoning soon to be added to the mix, you and your hubby should soon be two of the most stress-free people around! Of course, a marathon is a really big deal, and it certainly will require lots of preparation and training; but what a great way to build fitness for general health while simultaneously building strength and stamina for the big event!
Here's to your excellent health and fitness in 2008--and maybe even a ribbon or two sometime in the near future!
Thanks for sharing your fitness goals! They're very exciting--and inspiring!
Jeanne
Comment by Michele L.
Thanks for the reminder! Sometimes we writers need to be nudged out of our chairs so we can move and get healthier.
Smiles,
Michele
Comment by Jeanne Dininni
Writer's Notes
Sometimes we become so involved in our writing projects that it's extremely difficult to nudge us out of those chairs, too! But though it may take a little effort, it's certainly worth it!
Thanks for confirming my recommendation!
Jeanne
Comment by Anonymous
I love to weight train, but I have an injury I am letting rest, so for now walking is my best fitness friend
Getting on the shoes and getting out the door are the two humps I jump... the rest comes easy.. breathing fresh air, having a ceiling full of sky and feeling the good benefits of moving the limbs
your blog is a great resource, feels like a library... rich and loaded with things to explore
Thanks for all your work,
Nana Connie
Comment by Jeanne Dininni
Writer's Notes
Blogging can indeed be fattening--as fattening as it is addictive! (And that's precisely BECAUSE it's so addictive!)
Sorry to hear about your injury, but how resourceful of you to come up with an alternative activity, rather than using the injury as an excuse not to exercise! Walking is one of the best ways to stay fit, and it requires nothing more than a good pair of shoes and a little motivation.
Thanks so much for your kind words about my blog! I'm glad you've been able to find much that's of interest to you here, because that is certainly my goal!
It's wonderful to meet you! I'm glad you decided to stop by and comment and hope you'll do so often in 2008!
Happy New Year to you!
Jeanne