BlogHide Resteemsnormie.fitness (76)in running • 22 hours agoI push a bit too hard and find my limit / wallRunning is supposed to be enjoyable, right? I'm just kidding, of course it isn't. I go running because I want to stay in shape and be on top of my cardiovascular health, I do not actually enjoy it…normie.fitness (76)in running • 8 days agoSuccess on the progress using breathing methods and posture adjustmentsI am definitely not an expert on running techniques or even just running in general. What I do find myself to be good at though, is being very stubborn and not giving up and I think that is a good…normie.fitness (76)in running • 10 days agoseeing real progress in my runs despite the intense heatI signed up for a half-marathon in about 7 weeks so I figured I would get out there and train for it a little bit and in the process of doing so I have learned a few things about myself as well as…normie.fitness (76)in meals • 22 days agoI can't eat tacos but I can do the next best thingI love Mexican food or more specifically, Tex Mex which I think is superior and I will not apologize to people who thing that is wrong. Well I want to have tacos but I already know that they are…normie.fitness (76)in fitness • 27 days agoAn easy bike ride compared to an easy swimYeah yeah, i'm talking about swimming an awful lot but that is because it is rather new to me. I did some swimming in my youth competitively but I hadn't really thought about it being a useful form…normie.fitness (76)in swimming • last monthAn interrupted swim session still netted a near 300 calorie burnSo you remember how I am so enamored by the effective nature of swimming on the caloric burn right? Well today I am going to talk about it even more. I am not a terribly important person, but on…normie.fitness (76)in health • last monthI don't like that people are picking on Dave Bautista for his body transformationI don't really watch a lot of wrestling, or even movies for that matter, but I am very familiar with who Dave Bautista is and how he is one of the few wrestlers who followed in The Rock's footprints…normie.fitness (76)in fitness • last monthWhat happens when you change your diet?Over the past 5 years and particularly over the past 4 months I have changed my diet. The word "diet", for one thing, tends to have a negative connotation with it and means that you are starving…normie.fitness (76)in exercise • 2 months agoAnother day of swimming but this time took it EXTREMELY EASYI've been transitioning to swimming for my caloric burn and cardio maintenance while I wait for this issue I am having with my knee to sort itself out. The doctor recommended that I stop all…normie.fitness (76)in swimming • 2 months agoTrial number 2 on the swimmingSo even though I evaluated what I did the other day with the swimming the way that I did, I still had my doubts and wanted to make sure that everything was in line and that the stats weren't skewed…normie.fitness (76)in swimming • 2 months agoSwimming, even at a medium pace, burns tonsAs we get closer to summer people start to complain that it is difficult to exercise with such intense heat and humidity. I don't want to single those people out because I am one of them. I don't…normie.fitness (76)in fitness • 2 months agoDid you know that this simple exercise gadget has sold $1 billion in units?Looking back, it is hard to believe that this thing has been around for over 25 years. I don't really recall seeing them until the early 2000's but now they are just so common that it is kind of…normie.fitness (76)in walking • 2 months agoShould you log your walks?I will admit that I am a big coo-coo for coco puffs right now because of my new smartwatch and am going a bit nuts with it and logging everything that I do. The watch will detect when you appear…normie.fitness (76)in fitness • 2 months agoXiaomi Watch 2 review (new purchase!)I have been a bit of a broken record when it comes to my initial glee about my Garmin watch, then my sort of really pissed off complete turnaround after the watch started to fail and the company…normie.fitness (76)in fitness • 2 months agoThe Garmin watch reaches its eventual deathYou probably have heard the roller-coaster that has been my experience and relationship with my Garmin watch recently. I was in love and out of love in a year's time as far as that thing is…normie.fitness (76)in garmin • 2 months agoWhat to do when your Garmin starts dying early and refusing to switch onI am going to very soon walk away from Garmin as a company and a watch even though until recently I have been very happy with the things that the watch can do. To be fair to both me and Garmin, it…normie.fitness (76)in food • 2 months agoshocking details on things I used to eat all the timeWhen I got really fat in my late 30's and early 40's I didn't really see it coming. It's not like you just wake up one day and you are fat, it takes years to get to that point. For me the…normie.fitness (76)in exercise • 3 months agoSome bad news about Garmin, as a companyIf you see my blog at all, you are probably aware of the fact that about a year ago I became a massive Garmin fan. I was talking about it so much not just online, but in person, that I started to…normie.fitness (76)in fitness • 3 months agoStarted taking my diet seriously and am seeing fantastic resultsI have been at least somewhat fitness oriented for a while now but recently, probably some sort of midlife crisis thing, I really started taking it a lot more seriously and am seeing almost…normie.fitness (76)in fitness • 3 months agoEasy walking with super-fat friend, still burned over 200 caloriesI'm going to point out something right now that I think most apps don't do a good job of explaining to people. There is a lot of wishful thinking that goes on in the world out there and therefore…
