Internet Research: Fitness

 Dear Monica:  I want to research diet and weight loss plans on the Internet.  Can you suggest reputable websites to help me learn more about diet and weight loss?

Dear Fitness Fan:  One of the most awesome free fitness websites in existence is SparkPeople.com because they provide you with online tools to help you track your diet and fitness goals to encourage you to adopt healthy daily habits that will turn into a regular routine.  SparkPeople also provides social networking with like-minded fitness fans that regularly compete in fitness challenges.

BodyBuilding.com is another free fitness website that provides you with online resources to help you learn and practice healthy diet and fitness plans.  You can even click on the ‘body’ that you want for yourself and the website will set you up with a fitness plan to help you achieve the body of your dreams.  The body builder will send you regular emails to remind you to workout and most of them include a diet with recipes.  Social networking is also included with regular competitions among the members.  The website occasionally hosts a body transformation challenge and the winners can win some serious money.

SimplyShredded.com provides a lot of motivational stories, research studies, videos and everything anyone interested in fitness would find helpful. The research articles provide a lot of in depth information about everything from cyclical ketogenic diet to high intensity interval training, supplements, and avoiding workout mistakes and injuries.

As always, don’t forget to use google and youtube to search for anything you are interested in learning more about.  Be skeptical of everything you see and hear, use your own brain to make informed decisions for yourself based on your own experience and views. 

If you have any questions about the Internet and Computers send them to [email protected] and I’ll do my best to answer them in our next issue.