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New Tunes: Overdue Update

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It’s been a while since I’ve added anything new to the workout playlist, so I’ve rounded together a couple of tracks that are getting a little too old for the radio now – but are still perfect for slogging it out at the gym…

Flo Rida – I Cry

will.i.am ft Britney Spears – Scream & Shout

P!nk – Blow Me (One Last Kiss)

Owl City ft Carly Rae Jepsen- Good Time

Have you added any new tracks to your playlist lately?
How are they working out?
Any recommendations?

New Tunes: Ups to the Ladies

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Looking for some additions to your workout playlist(s)?  I’ve spent a chunk of this afternoon going through iTunes and the Apple store looking for additions to mine.

To my credit card’s dismay, I found plenty of new tracks.  But my credit card’s just going to have to suck it up and stop crying, because my butt’s going to love it.  Well, it’ll love the running spurred on from all the new motivation.    I mean, butts don’t have ears! Do they?

There are way too many additions to be able to share them all in one post – so I’ve broken them up across a couple.  In the interest of manners – ladies first…

Britney Spears – Hold it Against Me


Ke$ha – We R Who We R


Skyla – Ayo Technology


Cheryl Cole – Promise This


Marina & The Diamonds – Primadonna


Nicole Scherzinger – Poison


Are any of these on your playlist at the moment?
Are there any that you think you might try?

Fave Rave: My Favourite Medicine

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Would you exercise for just 30 minutes a day just because you know it’s good for you?  Okay, so you’re probably the wrong type of person to be pitching this to – you’ve searched the internet for fitness blog posts and have ended up here – you’re already conscious of the fact that exercise is good.  Fitness is good.  Healthy is great.

But so many think of exercise as a chore that they don’t have the time for.  That it’s something to be fit in among everything else.  Yes, sure, it is in a way.  If you don’t love it that’s alright – that was me for the last, oh, decade.  It’s still good for you, and it’s still something important that needs to get done.

How many people would look at it differently if you told them that for half an hour of exercise, they could have 23 and a half hours of free time to do with as they like?

Dr. Mike Evans over at My Favourite Medicine puts that exact concept to the world in this excellent video:

If you don’t have the time to watch it now, I highly recommend you bookmark it to watch later – the illustrations are fantastic, and Dr. Evans’ talk is fast paced enough that it doesn’t feel like a lecture (though you can learn a lot).

He’s got a few videos over on his website (which you should bookmark, too), including this one below which I found particularly interesting and probably more topical given my recent situation and take on life:

As you can see, this one rocks the awesome illustrations, too.

Amongst others, Dr. Evans’ website got me thinking – the internet is this huge resource of videos, pictures, essays, audio files, articles, etc, but what good is all that if you don’t actually do it?  You can research all you want, read every magazine on sale and subscribe to every podcast available, but these alone won’t get you change.  It won’t achieve your goals (unless your goal was to read every magazine available).  But they can serve as excellent motivators when in the right form (and found at the right time).

So I put it to you:

How has the internet inspired you to start/continue working towards your goals?
What goals have you achieved with the help of internet resources?
What were the resources you found most helpful?

Take this time to gloat in the comments – show others what you’ve achieved, what you’re in the process of achieving, or what you’re working up the courage to start!  You never know, someone might come across you comment tomorrow and list you as one of their defining internet inspirations!