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My experience from leading projects in 150+ companies on how to promote physical excercise and active lifestyle in companies (ranging from 20 to 7000 employees) are, in summary: Peer pressure/everybody else is doing it/risk of standing out, is the most effective psychological component in bringing many people on board a fitness promotion. Competitions are ...

Motivating yourself is easy enough, it's motivating other people that is tricky. As the saying goes, "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink." The horse may be too stubborn to drink even though it's thirsty, it may be too embarassed to drink in front of others, or it may already be full of water and not want any more! Regardless of the ...

Is this routine enough to get me back on shape or am I going to need to join the gym again? What is so special about the gym? Treadmills/steppers? Do the cardio outside. Freeweights isolation? Just use a pair of dumbbells with adjustable plates. Barbell strength routine? Buy a power rack for cheap off of craigslist. Whatever you can do in a gym, you can ...

The crux of the problem is that humans are notoriously bad when it comes to perspective, and as a result we can be quite impulsive. As a Princeton psychology study explains, Impulsive choices or preferences for short-term rewards result from the emotion-related parts of the brain winning out over the abstract-reasoning parts. "There are two different ...

Sathyaish, It seems like everyone is already giving you some good tips. And I agree with Moses regarding his tips and plan for you. However, the truth about sustainable weight loss has a lot to do with dieting and less with exercising. I don’t know your diet, but whenever I consult my patients and clients, and hear them saying that they have gained the ...

It is estimated that about 36% of deaths from CAD in men and 38% of deaths from CAD in women are due to lack of physical activity. To produce the maximum benefit the activity needs to be regular and aerobic. Aerobic activity involves using the large muscle groups in the arms, legs and back steadily and rhythmically so that breathing and heart rate are ...

The closest one is a site called Noom. It's a diet/exercise site but it will send notifications to you to inform you of upcoming exercises and helps you keep your schedule. I use MapMyRun to plan my workouts, and I can upload my Garmin GPS data to the site to show what I've done. Other sites could include SuperBetter, Fitocracy, RunKeeper, FitBit, ...