Be Fit With Biray

 
“Imagination is everything.  It is the preview to life’s coming attractions.”
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

This quote really resonates with me because it’s a reminder of how our thoughts and mental images can be illuminating.

I’ve discovered another great blog and have officially added it to my blogroll!  Amanda Vogel, MA is the owner of Active Voice Writing Service for fitness professionals (www.ActiveVoice.ca) and she’s added “active voice” blogging to her credits.  She is the author of 51 Need-to-know Writing & Marketing Tips for Fitness Pros, with her most recent release 30 Ways to Keep Profiting from your Free Media Promotion.  Her blogs are full of practical writing information (coupled with a bit of humor) and are definitely worth subscribing to (in other words, add it to your Google Reader!)

In this week’s E3 Media & Business Summit, Nintendo unveiled their newest addition to their already popular Wii — the Wii-Fit. Nintendo is definitely taking exergaming by storm and recognizing their potential to impact people’s levels of physical activity. They have simulated everything from yoga, soccer, step classes, and hula-hooping…

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Today FitnessJen, my friend and fellow group exercise instructor, created her first official Fitness Jen blog on Blogger!  I wanted to give her a loud shout-out and let her know that she’s officially landed a spot on my blogroll!  (Be forewarned: she LOVES the color pink.)

First weekend in July, I headed out to the IDEA World Convention in San Diego, CA – one of the world’s biggest health and fitness conferences!  This year marked my first time attending as a presenter at an international conference.  I, along with my colleague Lyndsi Johnson, presented a session about how to utilize internet-based tools to enhance the fitness experience.  It was called “It’s URLife, Make it a Healthy WWWone!” and you can check out the blog we created for it here.  We’ve even uploaded pictures and a YouTube video directly from our session!