Hello,

Welcome to the Free Fitness Tips Newsletter - August 2010.  This month I have been focussing on the microminerals and have eight new posts for you.

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1) Newsletter Contents

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2) Featured Article

This month's featured article is a guest post from Hadley Jolley.  Hayley's post provides a fantastic insight into a selection of fitness blogs from around the world wide web...

The Top 15 Most Helpful Fitness Blogs

Hello everyone.  Today’s article is a guest post from Hadley Jolley who is a guest blogger for My Dog Ate My Blog and a writer on distance education for Guide to Online Schools.

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Keeping fit and healthy is a lifelong process. Unfortunately, not everybody does so or even knows how—and those who do often struggle to maintain the motivation to put in the energy to remain fit.

However, blogs can help, both by providing general tips and tricks for exercising and time management, and also by providing inspiration for continued effort. The blogs listed below provide a wide range of help, including inspiration, tips, and the latest scientific findings about fitness.

1) Sussex Boot Camps Blog:- Run by two British personal trainers, this blog dovetails with the real-world boot camps the two writers run. It mostly focuses on general exercise and motivation tips.

2) Trying Fitness:- This blog’s tagline is “Because you’ve tried everything else”, and provides general tips about fitness, particularly for people who are not hard-core athletes. However, it also has interviews with pro athletes and links to free ebooks on fitness.

3) Weak Fitness:- Most posts on the Weak Fitness blog are Fitness tips—short ideas and facts about getting fit, especially for people who are just starting out. Their tips include what kinds of clothing to wear and the differences between different types of home exercise equipment.

4) Savvy Fitness:- Savvy Fitness is another blog that posts tips about exercise, like ways to add exercise to daily life. However, it posts advice about diet as well as about exercise.

5) Black Fitness Blog:- Written by Mike, this blog focuses on fitness and exercise as well from a black perspective. It often includes spotlights on black athletes and bodybuilders as well as general diet and exercise advice.

6) Obesity Panacea:- Obesity Panacea posts on fitness from a scientific perspective, including the latest finding about diet and exercise and their effects on health. As well, they dissect claims about diet and fitness products. They have recently moved blog sites; the large archives can be found here.

7) Beeble’s Fitness Blog:- Written by a personal trainer with periodic postings by other people, Beeble’s Fitness Blog is another blog with general fitness tips. It also has a series about the health benefits for various nutrients, like lactose.

8) Body and Fitness Blog:- Body and Fitness Blog is a blog devoted to supplements to help people become more fit, including acai berry—which the author is currently not finding to be particularly effective at weight loss. It also has general fitness tips.

9) Melinda’s Fitness Blog:- This blog is focused on nutrition and weight training specifically for women. Most of the posts are focused on nutrition, including a post a about local farmer’s markets.

10) Fatman Unleashed:- Fatman Unleash is both a blog and a “support community” where people trying to lose weight can gain inspiration and support from each other. The blog posts are organized into four sections: the personal fitness journey of the founder, nutrition, fitness, and mental health.

11) Well:- Well, run by Tara Parker-Pope, is a blog about health run by the New York Times. While its fitness content is only a part of what this blog covers, it does have many posts on fitness. The posts tend to be on recent news in health and fitness and not on general tips.

12) Workout Mommy:- Workout Mommy is a fitness blog with an emphasis on combining fitness with motherhood, and so has a focus on how to stay fit with a busy life and other commitments. It also periodically posts about other topics that interest the author, Lisa, a former personal trainer and “fitness junkie”.

13) Home Fitness Body:- Home Fitness Body is another website that focuses on tips for people who are just trying to get fit. It has a focus on diet, while it does promote exercise.

14) Gord’s Fitness Blog:- Gord’s Fitness Blog chronicles the fitness routine of Gords as he trains. He is mostly interested in biking and swimming. This blog is a good blog to go to for inspiration, not just tips.

15) Hot Exercise:- This blog’s tagline is “Fit for Life”, and it includes tips about how to exercise, including different workouts for different goals and tips on exercise for people with disabilities.  It has tabs to sort out the content, which include “anti-aging”, “exercise equipment”, and “the effects of exercise”.

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Hadley Jolley is a guest blogger for My Dog Ate My Blog and a writer on distance education for Guide to Online Schools.

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3) Final Words

As I said in the July 2010 newsletter my main focus for the rest of the year is to ensure that I cover the wide range of nutrients that can be found in the foods we eat right here on Free Fitness Tips.  I want you - the readers - to be able to find the information you need, on any single nutrient, in one central place.  There is still a long way to go but I think it will be a highly beneficial resource once it is complete.

I hope you enjoyed this month's newsletter.

Until next time,

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Tom Parker (Owner and Creator of Free Fitness Tips)
http://www.freefitnesstips.co.uk/
enquiries@freefitnesstips.co.uk

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