Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Where Frugality Meets Fitness
Moving more while spending less time on screens is at the heart of what it means to be frugalmatic. It's all about getting more value out of everyday life.
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Move more with the original anti-exercise program: Frugalmatic Fitness.
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Cut back on screen time by switching out your smartphone. (Yes, it's possible!)
The best “life hacks” save both time and money, but they usually don’t make life less sedentary. The 5 hacks in this post are a little different: They “hack” into sedentary activities and turn them […]
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Even if you never bike to work, chances are you have seen others do it. What about running to work? Have you ever tried it or seen someone doing it? If you live here in
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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 each of our two children reached about 5 years old, we started talking to them about ads. It’s an ongoing conversation designed to inspire our kids to think critically about how ads seek to
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At 9 years old, I learned not to own an American car. My family bought a new Ford Aerostar, boxy by today’s standards but futuristic looking in the 1980s, at the dawn of suburbia’s minivan
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With barbecue season fast approaching (though it never ends for some people), I wanted to share my recipe for a homemade BBQ sauce. It’s my humble attempt to “reverse engineer” Stubb’s Legendary Bar-B-BQ Sauce and
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When Jose Briones decided over a year ago to switch from a smartphone to a minimalist device, he was able to draw from his experience growing up in Nicaragua. Access to technology in Nicaragua, where
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