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Open Thread: The "43 Folders" of health and fitness sites?

Over the last six months or so, I’ve gotten a lot of requests via email from people looking for (yes, thanks, more than one person called it this)the 43 Folders of (health|exercise|fitness) sites.”

Naturally I set my Google fu in motion, fully expecting to turn up dozens of excellent sites on how to stay motivated about workouts, how to eat properly, and how to psych (or “hack,” if you prefer) yourself into straightening out, losing weight, and getting that fat ass in motion.

Funny thing: I came up pretty thin – and not in that good, healthy, slender kind of thin way. In at least three sittings of searching over the past few months, I just did not turn up more than a couple of independent sites that really blew me away. Really surprising, and maybe I was just looking in the wrong places. Like under a 12-pack of beer and a rib roast.

BUT. I’m sure they’re out there, and I can’t think of smarter people to ask than you, so you tell me: what’s your favorite website or blog about getting healthy? What are your favorite apps for tracking progress and watching a diet? Who’s got the best “health hacks?”

Post your faves in comments and help your geeky friends get as theoretically fit as they are theoretically organized.

TOPICS: Links, Vox Populi
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I will second (or third...

I will second (or third or tenth) the Hacker’s Diet recommendation.

Additionally, I have found the FitDay web site (http://www.fitday.com/) to be a great tool for implementing a lot of recommendations in the Hacker’s Diet. It is a free tool that facilitates fairly-simple calorie, weight, and activity tracking, and also includes a lot of neat reporting capabilities. The design/usability isn’t the best, but it is extremely functional and I use it daily.

Finally, another thing I have done towards implementing the Hacker’s Diet was to make hPDA-sized reference cards. Basically, I have one “weekly” template that also allows me to track my daily weight and exercise, as well as recording the data about the exercise rung I’m working on that week (number of bends, sit-ups, etc.). Then I have a reference card that lists the info for each exercise rung so I can fill in this info on each new weekly card. If anyone’s interested in these templates I could post them somewhere.

 
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