Terrible Tuesday :(

Filed Under (Fitness Confessions) by Admin on 26-05-2009

Read this entire post at: http://thefitnessdiva.blogspot.comUgh! It’s cold again, they’re once again promising some rain, and I’m sick of it! This on again off again weather is ruining my plans! I wait all year long for this summer weather, and when it comes, I dive right into it like a fish into water. And I swim til I can’t swim no more.Where’s my sun??? I wanna go out and play! I want to

Is Online Personal Training Right For You? (Plus Giveaway!)

Filed Under (Equipment Experiments) by Admin on 26-05-2009


The efficacy of personal training can be distilled down to one factor: the person in the “personal” trainer. This was the downfall of April’s Great Fitness Experiment wherein I tried out Women’s Health Magazine’s online personal trainer. The problem was that other than me, there were no actual people involved and their computer wasn’t any better at “training” me than their magazine articles are. (I’m still waiting for the trained monkey option.) After that experiment however, I got several e-mails pointing out that I had lambasted the whole online personal training industry unfairly. And while there are many sites run like the one I tested out, there are a whole other type run by a living breathing human personal trainer who just does his or her business over the web. (Ten points if anyone else just snickered!)

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