Here at Get Up and Do Something, we're all about finding ways to get active and healthy in an innovative and interesting manner. Because let's face it, sweating it out in the gym isn't always sunshine and daisies. Fitness can (and should) be fun sometimes! Luckily, summer is the perfect time to get …
Exercise Addiction: How Much is Too Much?
What exactly is “exercise addiction”? How do you know when you’ve crossed the line between a daily routine and obsession? While exercise has been associated with a slew of health benefits, there are also serious potential health problems that result from regularly overdoing it at the gym. Exercise …
What Running Taught Me
Either you’re a runner or you’re not. Either you love running or you hate it. I have always, for as long as I can remember have hated it. It’s likely this hatred stems from my young days of sports practice (which I also always hated). Some coach was always making us do sprints or some crazy route …
Walking: The Most Underrated Form Of Exercise
Walking is something we do every single day, whether it be walking to work, walking to class, walking to your car, or basically anything else. The greatest part about all of this, you don’t even think about the walk to class or to your car to be exercise, you just think of it as a task to complete …
What’s the Deal With Fitness Trackers?
I recently became another one of those people that started using a fitness tracker. I’ve thought of myself as someone who has pretty good intrinsic motivation to stay active or complete a workout. I thought the addition of my new fitness tracker wouldn’t make much of a difference in how much I move, …
Exercise, Only 23% Getting Enough
Exercise. We are told by our doctors, health educators, parents, friends, and coworkers to exercise. Everyone knows they have to do it, yet less than a quarter of Americans are actually meeting the guidelines. The number to remember is 23%. This is the percent of all Americans that actually hit both …
Marathon Running with Joanna Baird – Interview
There are two types of people in this world, those who run marathons and those who don't! Today we have with us Joanna Baird, fitness coordinator at the University of Delaware, speaking about her experience with running marathons. We at Get Up and Do Something are dedicated to motivating you to be …