Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Where Frugality Meets Fitness
At Frugalmatic, fitness isn’t something you add to your schedule. It’s something you make part of ordinary life. Everyday Fitness shows how chores, yard work, short movement bursts, creative activities, and intentional routines can deliver the indirect benefits we too often outsource to gyms or gadgets. These posts explore how real movement—the kind that emerges from living fully and simply—keeps the body engaged, the mind healthier, and the cost of staying fit lower.
If you’re the kind of person who doesn’t enjoy running for the sake of running, let me introduce you to plogging. I tried it for the first time recently, and I wish I had thought […]
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Even some of the most frugalmatic among us occasionally reach the end of the day realizing we spent more time sitting than we intended. For whatever reason, we were tied to our chairs at work,
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Long before COVID-19 arrived, health professionals were sounding alarms about the growing number of people leading sedentary lifestyles. It didn’t seem like the problem could get any worse, but it has. Measures taken to navigate
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When you’re frugalmatic, you’re getting stuff done while being physically active. Frugalmatic superstars include biking to work and mowing the lawn. But what if you can’t do (or just don’t feel like doing) a superstar
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If I could have only one gadget, it would be the electric toothbrush. The coffee grinder comes in a close second place, but I only use that once a day (twice for the toothbrush). My
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In his new book “Exercised,” Daniel Lieberman gets many things right about the importance of exercise and physical activity. He gets one thing wrong, however, in treating as extreme the idea that “sitting is the
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Standing desks took off after the 2009 publication of Mayo Clinic Dr. James Levine‘s book, “Move a little, lose a lot.” Suddenly, office workers everywhere were questioning their lifestyles, which no longer seemed healthy. Prolonged
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Fitness trackers are one of the few trendy gadgets that encourage healthy habits. They don’t tempt you to binge-watch TV shows or scroll through your social media feed. They don’t offer to vacuum your floors
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When you think about diets, they often involve counting, whether it’s fat, carbs, calories or sugar. The frugalmatic diet isn’t about that. It focuses on how food is prepared, whether it’s heavily processed or whole.
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Let’s start by discussing what you won’t find in this book list to inspire you to be more active. There are no “Fit in a Flash” titles here. Nothing about aerobics or cross training. Nothing
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