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Personal Finance Meets Personal Fitness
By Saver | June 18, 2008
As someone who reads a lot of personal finance blogs, one thing that surprised me was the degree of connection between personal finance and personal fitness. Not only the analogies (e.g., spending more money than you earn is a lot like eating more calories than you burn — both give short term pleasure but are bad in the long term), but the number of people interested in or working to improve both. J.D. writes at Get Rich Slowly and Get Fit Slowly. Lazy Man has Lazy Man and Money and Lazy Man and Health. NCN at No Credit Needed also runs No Calories Needed. Nickel writes at Five Cent Nickel as well as Fit36. (sorry, no cute wordplay connection for that one).
Now, Spender and I are not planning to create “He’s a Soccer Player, She’s a Yogi”, although we do share the desire to get into shape. Last year, we were both working out regularly and even completed a triathlon together. This year, not so much. We haven’t found a work-out rhythm since we’ve moved to Europe, although we have found a gym (wonderfully subsidized by my employer).
We have decided to join a couple of the guys above (led by Nickel, I believe) and many others in the blogosphere in the 100 Pushup Challenge. We’re starting a couple days late, but that’s ok. I’m hoping it will be a bit of a kick start for the rest of our “Get Back in Shape” plan.
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June 18th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Thanks for the links. There’s even more than you mention. There’s RateLadder.com and WeightLadder.com. Then there’s Jim who does Blueprint of Financial Prosperity as well as Journal of Healthy Living.
I probably miss another one or two as well.
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:17 am
I just joined one hundred push ups yesterday! Good luck!