Hi Fit! I've been going to the gym regularly for some time now. I do cardio and some strength training and I thought I was fit. Then I started a part-time job gardening. Now I'm wrangling hoses, hauling wheelbarrows and plants all over the place, digging, and squatting while weeding and planting. It is kicking my ass. Yesterday my back was just killing me after just three hours of planting fifty Read more

FitSugar readers are the curious sort, and you have lots of great questions. Over the last year, you have sent us some interesting ones. When we can, we answer them. Here are our favorite questions from 2010. If you have a fitness or health related question private message us here; I can always share it with DrSugar. Or pose your question to our community in the FitSugar Q and A group. We're all Read more

Hi Fit, I am training for a half marathon and I'm up to three miles a run. However, I've never been a runner before and suddenly I've been getting incredibly hungry. So far I've gone down a size since I started training! I've been wondering if I should increase my food intake, but I'm not sure by how much and which type of foods (protein, carbs, etc). Any suggestions? — Running on Read more

Dear Fit, I'm not trying to lose weight and I'm not training for a race, I just love to exercise because it relieves stress and lifts my mood. Once a day just isn't enough for me, so I've been exercising before and after work. I never do the same workout in one day, so I'll run with my dog in the a.m. and then before dinner, go for a bike ride. Or I might swim some laps at my gym, and then later Read more

Dear Fit, I got engaged last Fall and began running soon after to get in shape for my September wedding. I've been able to stick with it, running about 30 minutes three times a week, that is until this extreme heat set in. The past couple of weeks it's been in the 90s, and so humid. I usually run after work in my neighborhood, but I literally can only run about five minutes before I feel like I'm Read more

Dear Fit, I'm just getting into strength training and have heard that I need to work all my major muscle groups (and not just focus on crunches to get rock-hard abs). Is it better to work all my muscles at every strength training session or focus on different muscle groups each time (ex. Mondays: arms and abs, Wednesdays: back and legs)? —Trying to Tone Up I love this question, as it's a really Read more

Dear Fit, I'm a huge nature freak, loving all creatures big and small. But now that the weather has warmed up, I'm sleeping with my bedroom window open, and cannot deal with the happily chirping birds at 4 am! In my half-asleep stupor, I got up to curse them off politely demand that they quiet down, and was even thinking so irrationally as to start throwing shoes to make them stop. My hubby Read more

Dear Fit, I've recently become a running addict and train with a group of people who have an incredibly high fitness level. However, for two weeks within the last month, I wasn't able to exercise and now I'm afraid that I've lost all of the fitness I've built up. I am planning to start back exercising today, so I'm not worried about never becoming fit again, but it has made me curious about how Read more