How Blogging can Improve Your Health

      Creating a fitness blog can go a long way in improving your fitness. I’ve created a blog specifically for this purpose. It doesn’t need to be a professional looking blog. The more personal your blog is the better. It can be monetized or it may be done for this purpose alone, but regardless of you true motivation, I suggest monetizing it to prevent you from abandoning the blog in the rough roads of your fitness journey.

      First it allows you to tell the world what you aim to achieve. Let’s say I aimed to lose 10 pounds before my next birthday, I will write about it in my blog and share it with my family and friends. A lot of management and self help books suggest that goals must be declared to the world to make sure that it will be achieved. After declaring it, use your blog to record your progress. Your blog becomes your medium of declaring what you want, and every time you opened your blog, you are reminded of your goal.

      Second, declaring goals to a watchful public has another upside. It makes backing out from that goal more difficult. In working out, laziness procrastination and other negative behavior can break the mindset of the less experienced. Even I, who have been working out for many years, sometimes give in especially on bad days. In dieting, temptation of gluttony in unplanned occasions can ruin your diet. A surprise party and a spontaneous get together with high school friends are among the few situations where I let my guard down and failed to follow my diet plan.

                It is in these situations where I find blogging to be most useful in motivating myself. Even after minor setbacks in my fitness journey, blogging makes getting back on track easier. In a few instances, people who follow my blog remind me of the goals that I set for myself.

      Third blogging gives us a chance to learn new information about fitness. As a blogger, part of promoting blogs is reading other people’s blog and commenting intelligently in their pages. This will not only promote your own blog and create new relationships (because great bloggers always reply to comments) but also makes us learn what problems other people are encountering in their fitness journey. We can apply their solutions to ourselves or give advice if we are well versed with the topic.  Reading blogs also keeps us updated on the latest fitness trends. It’s like having a free magazine subscription where we have the freedom to praise or criticize the content. 

      Lastly, blogging lets us meet other fitness enthusiast. Other bloggers are more than just sources for inbound links. Successful fitness bloggers are mostly heath buffs themselves. Some manage blogs for personal purposes while others have monetary reasons. Regardless of their motivational sources, beginner bloggers can learn a lot from them, from technical blogging skills to detecting fitness trends. Joining communities of other bloggers and interacting with them are fun ways of learning and building your community at the same time.