@normie.fitness

If you follow me perhaps you read my last story about a planned 10 km run where I was 4km away from any assistance before I figured out that I had cheap cotton socks on and they we…

Socks are pretty important for sports and it wasn't until I started getting a bit more into distance running that I started to realize that it makes a lot of difference which kind …

I live in a part of the world where almost everything is dead flat. There are barely any hills and definitely aren't any mountains. The only elevated anything we have around here…

The pros and all the people who have fitness websites would probably tell you to repair it with the kit that you should *always have with you* and they inform you of the benefits o…

It's taken me a bit of time to figure this out but I have discovered the pace that I can run for longer periods of time without much difficulty. There are a number of things that …

So after doing 5km runs for a while now I have started to feel as though rather than it being a question of whether or not I CAN do them, it becomes a question of how fast I can do…

Running 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…

I 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 thi…

I 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 m…

I 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 kn…

Yeah 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 b…

stupid network outages :)

So 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 import…

I 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…

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 …

I'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 was pretty alarmed at how much the swimming was burning from a calories point of view and started to dig into the numbers a bit. I don't think my fitness watch is biased toward…

So 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 sta…

As 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 …

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 tha…