BehaviorFit’s First 42 Blogs: The Ultimate List

(Easter Egg: = That photo is my actual office)

This article is what you call the “listicle” of BehaviorFit (its first)

I had to redo a bunch on links…boring tech (“backend”) stuff.

So, in case you had a bad link…or want to scan the FIRST 42 BLOGS all in one place, well here it is.

They are in chronological order….and cover all blogs written from October 2015 – October 2018.

…with a brief sentence or two about each blog here they are:

(#1 is the oldest, #42 is the most recent)

1. The Top 15 Things I Learned from a Conference about Sitting! I went to a conference about sitting (haha!) and learned this stuff.

2. Exercise Isn’t Everything: How do you spend the other 23 hours of your day? You have to exercise AND sit less to have the best health outcomes.

3. Time to Pop Everyone’s Office Stability Balls Here, I argue that you shouldn’t sit on exercise balls at work.

4. Will ‘Black Friday’ Make You Fit? 5 Tips For Buying Fitness Tech Things to consider before buying fitness gadgets.

5. Why Your Next Promotion Will Be Bad For Your Health Main idea: Climbing up the ladder takes you away from more active work = bad for your health

6. 2015 in Review: BehaviorFit’s First 5 Articles Review of the first 5 articles (could probably be removed now…haha).

7. Please Leave Your Office: The Danger of a Standing Desk I love standing desks but you can’t stand at them all day

8. Health Missing at Work? 4 Tips for You or Your Organization How to bring health into your organization.

9. A Book About Sitting…DESKBOUND Details on a book I love that gets the issue of sitting (and offers cool stretches).

10. 2 Keys to Health Motivation: Who Cares About Your Health? A behavioral take on motivation and health behavior change.

11. What “Diabetes Here I Come” Can Teach Us A reaction piece to a Starbucks incident.

12. Stop Counting Calories: 6 Reasons Why Calorie Counting is Bad Health Behavior I am not a nutritionist, but I highlight the technical side of calorie counting.

13. 8 Ways To Be Active At Work Self-explanatory

14. How to Hack Physical Activity for Your Next Conference Useful tips if you travel to conferences or enter rooms with lots of chairs (and observe lots of sitting

15. The World is Not Ready For You To Stand Up Our modern culture can’t have everyone, standing up, every time, everywhere.

16. CORRECTION! Exercise IS Everything! Why the RIGHT Exercise Fixes All-Day Sitting Just work out hard enough. Raise your heart rate.

17. Do You Need 10,000 Steps Every Day? A common target to hit 10K/day. But it’s not that important.

Have you seen The Standing Initiative?

18. But Can I Sit At Work? The Sitting Problem & How To Fix It! You sit a lot. Here’s your guide.

19. Have Type II Diabetes? Experts say MOVE EVERY 30 MINUTES Self-explanatory

20. If Sitting Is So Bad, Should I Stand All Day? Standing the opposite of sitting? Not exactly…

21. How To Have An ACTIVE New Year with the “Know Your Guidelines” Series! Review article of the previous guidelines.

22. 3 Core Principles Shared By CrossFit and Behavior Analysis I love CrossFit and Behavior Analysis. Learn their common links.

23. Sitting is the New Smoking: Understand The Numbers Behind The Catchphrase Journalists invented the phrase, and I explain it.

24. A Pain In Your Neck: 7 Hacks to Fix Your Text Neck! If you look down at your phone…EVER!, then read this.

25. Beware: The Unicorn Frappuccino and Its Sugary Descendants A reaction piece on the Starbucks sugary menu.

26. BehaviorFit + MobilityWOD: 18 Things I Learned In A Course About Movement Tips that you may like if you prioritize mobilization, stretching, and a good warmup.

27. Daily Sugar Budgets: How Will You Spend Yours? There’s a recommendation. Most of us go above it. Every single day.

28. How I Use Behavioral Strategies To Stay Productive At The Gym A few tips (or “hacks” if you will) that might work for you.

29. School is back in session: How the gym became my professor, changed my behavior, and gave me a glorious life. Just a reflection piece on the discipline that exercising brings to your life.

30. How ‘Natural Athletes’ Are Made & Why Our Environment Matters Most Big idea: There’s no such thing as a “natural athlete”.

31. How I Used The Apple Watch For Fitness: What I Liked, and What I Would Fix I bought an Apple Watch (series 2) and offer my opinion.

32. My Breakfast, My Routine, and 5 Things I Learned From Eating The Same Thing For 4 Years I am not a nutritionist but learned these things.

33. New Year’s Resolution Stalled or Slow to Start? Let’s Hit The RESET Button & Overcome Some of Your Barriers Helpful tips on how to harness your motivation in January.

34. Use the Internet? Here’s Why You Can Ignore Most Health Research, Social Media, and My Advice There is a big difference between what happens in research and in real life. Here are my thoughts about it.

35. Dissecting The Anatomy of Your Feed: 10 Distractions Found In Most Health Blogs Things I’ve noticed about the health blogs that are churned out from major news outlets

36. Case Study 1: Putting Soft Drinks Down and Drinking Less Sugar She drank fewer sugary sodas.

37. Case Study #2: From Couch Potato To Running 38 Days Straight! He ran, and ran, and ran, and ran…

38. Case Study #3: How A Self-Employed Business Woman Worked From Home & Doubled Her Exercise. I helped a busy lady find more activity in her day.

39. Case Study 4: When Should I Fire My Running Coach? I worked with a runner, crunched her data, and figured out her coach wasn’t serving her very well.

40. Are You Training With Purpose? 4 Steps To Evaluating Gains! You train, but are you using your time wisely?

41. What Is Powered Clothing? 7 Concerns For Mechanical Muscles Seems like a cool idea, but I do not know about the longevity of it.

42. 5 Things To Know About The Latest Standing Desk Research I love standing desks, but they are not super-drugs!

There is the list.

Enjoy!

Keep moving and let me know if you have any questions!

-Nick