Something that I think about all the time is what types of foods I should be eating in order to better fuel my workouts, and to aid in recovery once the exercise is done.
In an article titled “Best fuel for your workout” at MSNBC.com the fitness experts give a quick run-down of what types of [...]
What fuels your workouts?
August 27th, 2008 — , Exercise, healthy eating, nutrition from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Is Exercise Sometimes Not Worth the Time You Put In?
August 19th, 2008 — , News, Workout Tips, fitness, weight loss from Peter @ Quick To Fit
I’ll sometimes talk with people I know about their weight loss plans, and how they expect to lose weight. When I ask them what they’re doing they’ll give me a report of drastically reduced calories, and a workout plan that involves a few situps and walking once or twice a week. In most cases I [...]
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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 3(x3), Day 1 (again)
August 18th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Motivation, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Week 3 once again
Today I restarted week 3 of the 100 pushup challenge - again. Lately it seems that every time I try to restart this whole thing we get busy, have nights out and I just can’t find the time to get my workouts in. I think I may start having to get [...]
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New Series of Posts - Back to Basics: Exercise, Nutrition and a Well Rounded Life
August 15th, 2008 — , Exercise, Fitness Resources, Motivation, News, Series, links from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Over the past few years I’ve learned quite a bit about what it takes to get healthy and fit. I still haven’t reached my goal of being “fit”, and applying what I’ve learned is the part that’s easier said than done. At the same time I feel like I have a decent amount [...]
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Joggers live longer?
August 13th, 2008 — , Exercise, News, running from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Just when I was looking for an excuse not to go running anymore I stumbled on an article in Time Magazine titled “Runner’s High: Joggers Live Longer“. Ugh.. So - what’s this all about?
That runner’s high may translate into a lot of other long-lasting health benefits, a new report from an ongoing study suggests. Researchers [...]
It’s been a few days without a post
August 11th, 2008 — , Miscellaneous, Motivation, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
I’ve been lazy
It’s been a few days since I posted here on Quick To Fit. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks, and my fitness goals have pretty much gone by the wayside. I know that sucks, but sometimes that happens.
At the beginning of last week I got an infection in my eye that caused [...]
I went mountain biking today!
August 6th, 2008 — , Biking, Exercise, Fitness Resources, weight loss from Peter @ Quick To Fit
When I got home from work tonight I decided to do something I haven’t done for quite a long time. I decided to go for a ride on my mountain bike.
Once I got on all my riding gear (special pants with cushy rear, bike shoes, helmet), I went to grab my bike. I then [...]
100 Pushup Challenge: Week 3(x2), Day 1
August 5th, 2008 — , Health Blog Posts from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Week 3 once again
Today I restarted week 3 of the 100 pushup challenge. This time instead of starting in column 1, I started in column 2. How did it go? Well, I finished. That is about all I can say. I made it through the minimum of each set. I wasn’t [...]
Exercise in a pill?
August 4th, 2008 — , Health Blog Posts from Peter @ Quick To Fit
When I read the headline this morning, I did a double take:
Exercise in a pill? Drugs show promise in mice
Say what?
Exercise in a pill, could this be the next big thing that all of us lazy people have been waiting so long for? You just pop a pill and it’s instant exercise? Here’s what the [...]
100 Pushup Challenge: Week 5, Day 1
August 1st, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Week 5 looks tough!
Well last night was day one of week 5 in my 100 pushup challenge. How did it go?
FAIL!
Ok, it wasn’t all that bad. It was a pretty tough week and I wasn’t sure I’d even be able to make it through the first 2 or 3 sets. After day one it gets [...]
Weight training training is good for your health!
July 30th, 2008 — , News, Weights, weight training from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Weight training only for those who want to bulk up?
Ok, the title may be obvious, but how many times have you talked to someone about doing exercise with weights, and get a response along the lines of “Oh, I don’t want to bulk up” or “If i lift weights I’ll just get those big muscles, [...]
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Pushups are not happening this week apparently
July 30th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Miscellaneous, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Well, I was planning on doing week 5 of the 100 pushups challenge this week, but every day something just seems to come up and get in the way. Yesterday we didn’t get home from a gathering at a friend’s house until late, and I was too tired to do any pushups. Tonight I had [...]
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Time for another fitness post roundup, and 1 month review!
July 29th, 2008 — , Motivation, Post Roundup, Site Recap, links from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Site recap
Well quicktofit.com has been live for about a month now, and it’s been fun interacting with all of you out there, comparing pushups and keeping each other accountable.
While the site is still new, I’ve been gratified to find that there are a bunch of other people out there reading my blog, and doing so [...]
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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 4 Exhaustion Test
July 28th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Week 4 - what column will I be doing in week 5?
This morning I was waiting around for some workers to finish fixing a crack in my foundation. While I waited around I decided to do my exhaustion test for week 4.
If you perform 30 or less pushups you go back to week [...]
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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 4, Day 3
July 26th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Week 4 - will I have to repeat it like week 3?
Today was day 3 of week 4 on my 100 pushup challenge.
Once again it looked tough, so I wasn’t sure if I could do all the pushups. Every time that I surprise myself and complete a set my confidence climbs though.
I was a [...]
Wii Fit - Good fitness tool, or just a fad?
July 26th, 2008 — , Exercise, Fitness Resources, Video Games, Workout Tips, nutrition, wii fit from Peter @ Quick To Fit
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I was over at a friend’s house the other night, and noticed that they had purchased the Wii Fit exercise program.
I’m naturally a bit of a skeptic, so I tend to think that the exercise benefits you would get from working out with a video game would be minimal, but I was [...]
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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 4, Day 2
July 24th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Week 4 resumes!
Here we are on week 4, day two. Pretty similar to day one of week 4, but slightly more pushups.
I took the day off yesterday because I had such a hard day having to put my dog to sleep at the vet. Not something I ever want to go through again. (But I’m [...]
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July 24th, 2008 — , Miscellaneous, Sad news from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Well, I was supposed to do the 100 pushups, week 4 day 2 workout last night. Unfortunately I had other things going on.
My 14 1/2 year old dog Buddy had to be put to sleep last night. You can read all about Buddy and how special he was at my other blog in the post [...]
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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 4, Day 1
July 21st, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Week 4 of the challenge is here!
Here we are on week 4, finally!
At the end of week 3 I was able to power out 25 pushups in my final set, which was my new high. Today I am starting week 4 in column one:
That means I’ll be doing 16, 13, 13, 11, 16. After [...]
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July 21st, 2008 — , Motivation, inspiration, running, weight loss from Peter @ Quick To Fit
One thing I used to just hate doing was running. I would rather die than go running. Running is hard, it makes you sweat and it always leaves you as a heaving sweaty lump on the floor.
Well that’s how I used to think about it at least.
Since I’ve been working out and trying to lose [...]
Monday morning fitness blog roundup!
July 21st, 2008 — , Motivation, Post Roundup, inspiration, links from Peter @ Quick To Fit
The weekend is over, and I have to admit I didn’t get as much exercise as I had hoped. Yesterday I didn’t do anything except go for a walk with my wife, which is better than nothing, but still not what I had hoped. My diet was also a bit lackluster as we attended [...]
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July 20th, 2008 — , Miscellaneous, RSS, Updates, email from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Quick to Fit was launched on July 1st 2008 as a place for me to put down my thoughts on matters of health and fitness, as well as to track my own progress from overweight to fit. So far it’s been a positive impact on my life, as I’m able to watch myself slowly get [...]
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July 19th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Week three of the 100 pushup challenge… again
This morning was day 3 of week 3 of the 100 pushups challenge. I did the same week last week, and I failed on my day 3 pushups in the last set of 16. I made it to 12, and then had to finish from my knees.
This [...]
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Think you’re eating healthier by buying 100 calorie packs?
July 18th, 2008 — , Health, Studies, healthy eating, nutrition from Peter @ Quick To Fit
One thing that I’ve struggled with for some time is controlling my portion sizes when I eat. I tend to eat Goliath sized portions, fit for a giant.
One thing we’ve done at times in our house is to buy foods packaged in smaller portions. We buy the 100 calorie packs, smaller versions of candy [...]
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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 3, Day 2 the second time around
July 17th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
This week is my second time around doing week 3 of the 100 pushups challenge.
I did my pushups on Wednesday just before going out to play tennis. I pushed through them at a good pace. It wasn’t as tiring as the last time I did them, but it was still hard.
I started out with the [...]
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My preferred indoor workout routine - “The Biggest Loser Workout”
July 17th, 2008 — , Exercise, Fitness Resources, Workout Tips, weight loss from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Indoor workout routines
During the winter, and when the weather is nasty outside I have to find a way to exercise indoors. Usually for me that means one of a couple of choices. My first choice is usually running on our new fuel treadmill. It has a high intensity interval training (HIIT) setting [...]
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100 Pushup Challenge: Back to Week 3, Day 1
July 15th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Saturday was day 3 of week 3 in my 100 pushup challenge. As I mentioned in a previous post I failed on the last set - only making it to 10 of the required 16 minimum pushups, although I did complete the pushups from my knees. This week I’m doing week 3 over.
I didn’t [...]
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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 3, Day 3
July 13th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Report, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Saturday was day 3 of week 3 in my 100 pushup challenge. I was still pretty sore from the pushups on Wednesday, but I decided to give it a go anyway.
I did my pushups around 11:30 in the morning before my wife went out to do some exploring on our vacation this weekend. I [...]
Exercise today & getting ready for the long weekend
July 10th, 2008 — , Anniversary, Miscellaneous, Motivation, inspiration, vacation from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Today was the last day of work for me this week, I took the day off on Friday because my wife and I are going to be celebrating our 6th anniversary this weekend. Our anniversary is actually in June, but we had to move our trip to this weekend because of a death in [...]
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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 3, Day 2. Challenge Participant Roundup!
July 9th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Report, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Today is day 2 of week 3. Monday’s workout was tough for me, and I just barely made it through the last set of 15. Today’s workout steps it up another notch, and I am 50/50 on whether I’d be able to finish or not.
To get some added inspiration today I checked out [...]
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What is your biggest health & fitness vice?
July 8th, 2008 — , Food, Motivation, healthy eating, meme, nutrition from Peter @ Quick To Fit
I was tagged by the great deflabbifier over at Deflabbify yesterday in a new health fitness meme that asks:
What is your biggest health or fitness vice?
That’s an easy question to answer. I love pastries! Donuts, cheese danish, cinnamon rolls, bagels, cookies, toaster strudels, you name it. If it has a flaky crust and a sweet [...]
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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 3, Day 1
July 7th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Today is the big day - day one of the 3rd week. After yesterday’s exhaustion test I’ll be starting in column one of this week’s regimen.
That means today’s workout was 15, 12, 12, 10, 15(max) pushups. Even though I’ve been progressing, this seemed like quite a bump for me, but what else can I [...]
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July 7th, 2008 — , healthy eating, weight loss from Peter @ Quick To Fit
FAIL!
It’s been a rough few days on the dietary front of my weight loss plan. I had planned on eating healthy, eating smaller portions, and eating six times a day instead of three mega-sized meals.
Over the 4th of July weekened I managed to eat unhealthy, eat mondo-sized portions and eat 2-3 huge meals every day. [...]
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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 2 Exhaustion Test
July 6th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Report, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
On friday I finished week 2 of the 100 pushup challenge. As they suggested on the 100 pushups website, I waited a couple of days, and then did the exhaustion test to find out what column I should be starting in tomorrow for week 3 of the challenege.
I got up this morning, got hydrated by [...]
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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 2, Day 3
July 4th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Today is day 3 of week 2, and once again it’s slowly upping the number of pushups.
Tonight is our 4th of July BBQ, so I figured I better get my pushups done in the morning before I get weighed down by hot dogs, burgers and beans. It is not going to be a healthy [...]
100 Pushup Challenge: Week 2, Day 2
July 2nd, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Today was day 2 of week 2 of the 100 pushup challenge. I was not feeling it today, and was not looking forward to doing my set of 11, 9, 7, 7, 10(max). I changed once I got home, and got to work.
It seems like the first set or two I’m usually pretty [...]
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July 2nd, 2008 — , Body For Life, eating, healthy eating, nutrition, weight loss from Peter @ Quick To Fit
I apologize if the title for this post is a bit crass, but the question I think is a valid one. How many times should you eat every day if you’re trying to lose weight?
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One thing I’ve done since embarking on my weight loss journey is changing the way that I eat. [...]
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Soreness after a workout: Burn and recover
July 1st, 2008 — , Exercise, Fitness Resources, Workout Tips, soreness, tips from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Last night I did my pushups for week 2, day 1 of the hundred pushups challenge. Afterwards I went running for about 1.5-2 miles. It feels good to get back into the swing of things, and once you get going you can feel that your body enjoys getting the exercise (mine does at least). Your [...]
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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 2, Day 1
June 30th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Monday evening I began my second week in the 100 pushup challenge. Week 1 was tough, but not exceedingly hard.
After doing my reps for day 1 of week 2, I felt pretty good after I finished. At the end of the sets I was able to max out my pushups with 15 pushups, which [...]
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June 30th, 2008 — , Exercise, Fitness Resources, Workout Tips, home gym, tips from Peter @ Quick To Fit
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A few years ago I decided that I wanted to build a home gym in one of our extra bedrooms, so that I could stop paying my high monthly fees to the gym we belonged to, and just start working out at home.
I wasn’t sure how expensive it was going to be, [...]
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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 1, Day 3
June 28th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Saturday was day 3 of week 1 for my 100 pushup challenge. I didn’t get to my pushups yesterday because I was entertaining, and people showed up early. So I performed my pushups this morning.
Day three was a bit harder than day 2. Once again the reps on each set of pushups was [...]
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June 27th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports, Pushups from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Wednesday was day 2 of week 1 for me in the 100 pushup challenge. Tonight I’ll be performing the day 3 routine. But first, how did day two go?
Day two was similar to day one, but the reps for the number of pushups you performed were slightly increased. If you wanted the rest period [...]
100 Pushup Challenge: Week 1, Day 1
June 26th, 2008 — , 100 pushup challenge, Exercise, Fitness Resources, Progress Reports, Pushups from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Last week I decided that I was going to start getting back in shape by joining in the 100 Push-Up Challenge that several other bloggers have been talking about the last coule of weeks. J.D. over at GetFitSlowly.com started the trend last week by asking who else would join in the program. I [...]
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June 25th, 2008 — , Fitness Resources from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Over the past few days I’ve been putting together a list of some free online resources that helped me in losing weight last year, and I’m sure that can help you as well.
A caveat I should put here - I’m a firm believer that there is no big secret to weight loss. Any successful [...]
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Welcome to Quick to Fit!
June 25th, 2008 — , Motivation, Progress Reports, weight loss from Peter @ Quick To Fit
Hello everyone, this is the inaugural post for QuicktoFit.com! I started this blog as a way to keep myself accountable for my fitness life, in a similar way that my other blog, BibleMoneyMatters.com has helped me to remain accountable in my personal financial life. Blogging about the subject means that I have to think about [...]
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