From the category archives:

Exercise

Exercise Anyway

February 6, 2006

I have a few friends who’ve expressed that they’d rather not go to a gym or recreation center to exercise because they’re embarrassed.
They’re overweight… and they don’t want other people watching them.
Although I’m not overweight, I can understand the hesitation.
When I first started lifting weights… and grabbed the 20-pound dumbbells to do bicep curls… I [...]

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1-2-3 Fit Franchise

January 26, 2006

There’s a new player in the fitness club market called 1-2-3 Fit.
Believe it or not, the new franchise was founded by two Quiznos executives, one of whom is still working for the company.
1-2-3 Fit is going after a perceived gap in the fitness market. That is, the co-ed market.
The new fitness club aims to get [...]

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Free Motion Fitness

December 8, 2005

My wife and I joined a new gym back in November called Village Fitness. One line of machines they have is called Free Motion Fitness.
These machines are really cool. Not only are they elegantly simple, they’re also very functional.
Each machine works with a weight stack that can be adjusted with a pin. Then there are [...]

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