“Hello, Miss, Miss?”

“Yes?”

“Sorry to bother you. I was just wondering if you realized you are doing the leg press with no weight.”

“Well, I have different goals than you guys. I want to get tone not big, muscular, and manly.”

And so goes one of the biggest misconceptions in weight training. That if you’re a woman and exert yourself when weight training that you will turn into a freak of nature woman like those on the cover of Flex and MuscleMag.

If you believe this you are sorely wrong, so stop being lazy in the gym!

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I found this very good article over at Lauren’s Fitness via Smarter Fitter, both excellent blogs that I can only hope to rival someday. The article gives some very good tips for boosting your metabolism. Which makes me think that maybe I really should eat more on my quest to get back to a healthier weight.

Link: 11 Hot Tips To Get Your Furnace Burning
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Photo by Dunny.

This was written last month before starting fitfilter.com, but I want to share it with everyone. I wrote earlier about diet and fitness goal setting tips and now I’d like to expand upon that and talk about my goals.

The question I always get from my dad when I tell him I’m going on a diet is “Why?!” (then again that is his response to pretty much everything I say I’m going to do). I’ll tell him why then he’ll ask how, “Are you going to starve yourself again?” He also always reminds me to stay off diet drinks because “Aspartame is poison” and how pickles have “negative calories”, but that is a digression. I’m going to answer all the applicable questions in one fell swoop in this post. The “What, when, why, where and how” to my diet and fitness goals.
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People who don’t set goals and want to lose weight or get in shape are destined for failure.

Goal setting is a widely discussed topic in personal development literature. It is the pivotal first step in creating anything you want in life. In this post I will summarize five tips that I have found to be helpful in setting diet and fitness goals.

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Hello! I’m Josh and this blog is essentially aimed at providing fitness, nutrition and health tips and motivation. This is the first post ever.
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Blog coming February 4…