Fitness: Exercises, Nutrition Tips, and Tools to Get Fit
Physical activity can improve cardiovascular fitness, increase strength and energy and relieve stress. Below are sites with vital information about exercise and nutrition to help you reach your fitness goals. For a Spanish-language version of the Guide, click here.
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Online Fitness Communities
A few sites allow you to connect with others and track your fitness goals. Whether you want to plan a month of workouts, graph your weight loss, or interact with other fitness buffs, these sites provide resources and motivation to aid you in reaching your fitness goals.
Dulcinea's Insight
- On each of these sites you can create a custom profile to manage the fine details of your fitness program. Each one has features that make tracking and planning your exercise easy. They differ subtly in the added features they offer and in design, functionality and cost.
- The "community" aspects of many of these fitness sites encourage users to interact with one another through message boards, discussion forums, and via each other's customized personal profiles. Take advantage of the community to meet other exercisers like you and to share your tips and motivation.
Dulcinea's Picks
Traineo
adds outside motivation to its other good features and simple functionality. After creating an account, you'll pick friends or relatives to be your "motivators." Those selected will get weekly progress reports to stay updated on your exercise. Involving others in your fitness takes the isolation out of exercise and provides a great forum for receiving encouragement. Traineo has plenty of fitness and exercise info and tools like graphs and logs to help you manage your training. The interface is simple, the site looks great, and it's easy to use.
Gimme20
features fitness trackers, a community of real users, and weight tracking tools as the base of their exercise management site. These features let you chart your workout progress over time, monitor your results, and interact with a community of exercisers like yourself. Using Gimme20 you can create custom graphs to monitor your progress toward achieving whatever goals you have (like your mile time or waist size). There's a workout database to help you get ideas for what exercises to do.
Weight Circles
is a weight loss support site that allows users to create profiles and join different "circles" to share tips and encouragement with other similar users. Share your exercise and diet tips and learn what’s working for others.
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