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Core Conversation: Reduce MySpace Between Waist & Thighs So Wiki Live Longer
Date/Time: 5 p.m. Friday.
Panelists: David Eckoff (President, Revolutionary Ventures), Biray Alsac (Health/Fitness Educator, FITTmaxx Institute).
The gist: Eckoff, a techie who used to lead a very unhealthy lifestyle (join the club! The fat club!) and Alsac, a fitness educator who is interested in technology, led a well attended core conversation discussing how technology can aid fitness. If you see people on Twitter saying they’re exercising or cooking healthy, for instance, it might be a good reminder to do it yourself. Transparent, subtle reminders can be valuable tools to promote an active state of thinking. There are also many apps available that help you track your workouts or diet and can cross-post to social networking sites. (Fitizens.com and exercisefriends.com, for instance.) One site, Extracon.com, will even text you reminders to exercise. There are plenty of tools and it’s worth experimenting to find the ones that work best for you.
Quotes: On wasting time instead of being active: “Watching YouTube videos is like eating potato chips. You can’t watch just one.” — Eckoff. “Stop calling it exercise. People hate to exercise. Call it physical activity.” — Alsac.
Takeaways: The new Core Conversation format, with a round table at the center of the room instead of multiple tables, works MUCH better than last year’s approach. And a very clever title for the session doesn’t hurt, either. It doesn’t take as much time to live healthily than it sounds. Take the stairs. Just because you don’t see immediate results doesn’t mean it’s not working. Whether it’s an iPhone app, a text messaging reminder or an online calorie tracker, there are plenty of new ways to tackle an old problem: don’t be afraid to try them out.
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