People with Spark

The fitness industry can be an interesting field to be a part of. Most people are way more concerned about themselves than those around them (#1 reason not to be scared to go to the gym) and a lot of times it’s all about the “Benjamin’s.”

In the midst of the muscle flexing, body fat testing, and chicken and rice eating, which is all too common in the fitness industry, I have found a resource that actually coincides with my attitude about health (because let’s face it, there’s only so many ways you can cook a chicken before you never want to eat another bite again).

This is real life. There will always be birthdays and BBQ’s and Ben and Jerry’s. Here is a resource that can help you be successful with your fitness goals even in real life:

This is a FREE health & fitness website that promotes self-monitoring
(Our lack of self-monitoring is one big reason America is the largest country in the world).

http://www.sparkpeople.com/

You can have a goal, they will give you a plan.

(Most of us have this “number” out in the clouds & we don’t know how to reach it).

You can have skinny jeans, they will give you menus so you can fit into them.

(Because we all love the way our butt looks in those jeans).

You can have flab, and it will give you workouts so you can join the muscle flexing club.

(Or just get workouts that make up for last year’s over indulgence of Ben & Jerry’s)

For you competitive people, you can earn points for the things you log, the exercise you do, and articles you read.

(It’s like the shinny gold stars we used to get as kids when we did something awesome).

There are even new exercise ideas so you can look like you know what you’re doing in the gym

The bottom line, with fitness, is that you can have all the resources in the world (i.e. that 80’s workout video you still have in your posession because you think that you will use it – some day – in all of it’s neon glory), but you must make the choice to use that resource otherwise it will just be taking up space next to our skinny jeans that we hope to fit into again…one day.

Try it. http://www.sparkpeople.com I dare you.