Your Holiday Pace
I'm gonna have a little more to walk off this week than usual. If that sounds like something you might do this holiday season, here's something you might like to know about the ideal walking-it-off pace. That "brisk" pace.
The Gift: A Little Walking Music, please
Because it helps make my time on the treadmill fly by in no time. Whether I'm walking or running, I'm having more fun when I'm doing it with the Rolling Stones. And I'm having the most fun when my music sounds great. Here are the great Ways to great sound.
The Gift Fit For A Walking. And a Winner
If knowledge is power, a fitness-tracking wristband should make one powerful gift. For yourself. And anybody else who's motivated by information. Like the winner of our Win-A-Fitness-Tracker Contest. Read the winning entry here.
Win a Fitness Tracker Wristband First-Ever BetterCheaperSlower Contest
They say these step-and-calorie-counting wristbands are the hot new holiday gift this year. Want the really cool one for free? Entering this contest is as much fun as winning it. C’mon, take three minutes for personal creativity and win the amazing iFIT Active.
Every Move You Make: Tracking Fitness
If you really want to learn something new every day, strap on one of those new fitness trackers. You know, those black wristbands that people wear to learn how much, or how little, they walk each day. I just wore three of them nearly 24/7 for a week. Here's what I learned.
Come Run With Me. More or less.
I ran in Central Park for 30 years. For the last 10, I've been doing it on a treadmill in the comfort and privacy of my home. Now I'm going public, and I'd love it if you'd join me. Here's my training program and your invitation. Run or walk. Either Way's good.
White Pine Lake. Are we there yet?
5 miles out and 2,400' up the trail. It's beautiful. It's serene. Your mouth hangs wide open for a full 30 seconds. Transparent pale blue water with a red rock background. You burned 1,000 calories. Now find a big rock. Sit. Contemplate.
My vacation high
Way up in the Teton Range. One of those hikes that makes your day. Makes your vacation. Makes IMAX look like a postcard. Ten miles out and back. Six thousand feet up and down. 4,000 calories burned. Or take an early fork in the trail for a great walk around two pristine lakes.
Higher ground, lower temperature
July 11, 2014. Down there where my feet hit the sidewalk, it's hot. Very hot. But up here in my mind, I'm making snowballs. I'm imagining the coolest hike in Hawai'i. Hawai'i?Sure, it's pretty balmy down at sea level. You…
Sunny, with a chance of Vitamin D
What a deal. Sunlight's free and you don't even have to strap a solar panel to your back to use it. Just take off your shirt. Or your pants. Because your skin synthesizes Vitamin D when it's exposed to sunlight. Oh, by the Way, you're probably Vitamin D-deficient.