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 live. Everyday Fitness shows how chores, yard work, errands, and creative activities can deliver many of the benefits we often outsource to exercise equipment, gyms, or devices. These posts explore how real movement—the kind that emerges from developing a physically active mindset—keeps the body engaged, the mind sharper, and the cost of staying fit lower.
One of my goals in creating the Frugalmatic website has been to inspire people to become more physically active. I’m not talking about training to run a marathon or anything that intense. I’m talking about […]
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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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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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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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I once allowed the seasons to dictate whether I commuted to work by bike or car. Then about eight years ago, I discovered my winter-riding savior: metal studded tires. For me, cold wasn’t the problem,
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If you’re saving for retirement, you probably don’t intend to touch your accounts for a long time, perhaps decades. You have the discipline and vision to plan for the future. Are you thinking about your
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