Finding health and fitness online

As far more learned people than I have stated, we are drowning in information but starving for knowledge. The Internet has opened up almost limitless possibilities for the inquisitive mind, making it a wellspring of instant answers but also a highly attractive distraction.

With all its bells and whistles, the lure of finding yet another celebrity website or a quick read of someone's snarky comments on growing trends in fashion can sometimes be enough to keep some people from more important, real life activities. Choosing between watching a new StrongBad Email clip and making it to the gym in time before it closes can sometimes be a very real dilemma ... for me ... ahem. Damn it, I hate it when the truth accidentally spills out of me. I wish that Bill Gates could invent something -- a single key or mouse movement, perhaps -- that allows you to delete what you wish you hadn't written ;)

Fortunately, one major benefit of the Internet is having a breadth of fitness knowledge right at your fingertips. Besides That's Fit, there are a number of other great sites out there from which you can choose to learn about everything from diet and nutrition to yoga, strength training, and interval training. One site that I find particularly helpful is 5min.com, which offers a wide variety of instructional videos, all designed to teach you a lesson in 5 minutes or less. Insofar as fitness is concerned, you can find a number of great video tutorials on just about anything you can think of.