A new beginning
Wait, a new beginning? ANOTHER blog?
It feels rather artificial and nonsensical for me to be starting a fitness blog. I already have a website/blog that I maintain, I already track a lot of my nutrition and gym workouts through a profile on Daily Burn, and I'm definitely not someone who should be giving out advice. This site is mostly for me, but if you can read it and glean some worth then so be it. I couldn't help but feel that I needed some separation of my new gym hobby from the rest of my life. I try to be marginally thought provoking on my main site (or at least tell a good story) and boring updates about gym routines and food doesn't really fit in with that. I suppose I could have just rolled out a separate Wordpress instance or even done some trickier to segregate fitness posts out, but I like the idea of having my fitness blog its own entity. It still posts an update to Twitter, Facebook, and even LiveJournal if you have it, but I tend to use those social networking sites more to aggregate the content of "me" from across the web.
Ok, so what's going on here?
There will probably be very few (if any) organized, well thought out posts. Since Posterous is updated via email I'll probably be jotting down quick notes to send off instead of long hours composing and rewriting anything. A lot of it will probably be thoughts on food and exercise, with the occasional update on my fitness progress.
With sexy pictures?!?!
Uuhhh.. yeah, probably not. Progress pictures? Sure. Very tasteful ones. You dirty people. Why should I read this then?
Well, you honestly probably shouldn't. See the first paragraph and all. You lucky people on one of the above social services are just gonna get these posts as an extra free service. Feel free to ignore it! Why not just keep all this on Daily Burn? They have a blog you can post to.
Well, yes they do. The problem is there's no way to get to that content going outside of Daily Burn (rss, embedd, etc) and everything I track there isn't public. If they ever get better at sharing content, I definitely will.
It feels rather artificial and nonsensical for me to be starting a fitness blog. I already have a website/blog that I maintain, I already track a lot of my nutrition and gym workouts through a profile on Daily Burn, and I'm definitely not someone who should be giving out advice. This site is mostly for me, but if you can read it and glean some worth then so be it. I couldn't help but feel that I needed some separation of my new gym hobby from the rest of my life. I try to be marginally thought provoking on my main site (or at least tell a good story) and boring updates about gym routines and food doesn't really fit in with that. I suppose I could have just rolled out a separate Wordpress instance or even done some trickier to segregate fitness posts out, but I like the idea of having my fitness blog its own entity. It still posts an update to Twitter, Facebook, and even LiveJournal if you have it, but I tend to use those social networking sites more to aggregate the content of "me" from across the web.
Ok, so what's going on here?
There will probably be very few (if any) organized, well thought out posts. Since Posterous is updated via email I'll probably be jotting down quick notes to send off instead of long hours composing and rewriting anything. A lot of it will probably be thoughts on food and exercise, with the occasional update on my fitness progress.
With sexy pictures?!?!
Uuhhh.. yeah, probably not. Progress pictures? Sure. Very tasteful ones. You dirty people. Why should I read this then?
Well, you honestly probably shouldn't. See the first paragraph and all. You lucky people on one of the above social services are just gonna get these posts as an extra free service. Feel free to ignore it! Why not just keep all this on Daily Burn? They have a blog you can post to.
Well, yes they do. The problem is there's no way to get to that content going outside of Daily Burn (rss, embedd, etc) and everything I track there isn't public. If they ever get better at sharing content, I definitely will.
