Recently my fiancée Jessi and I made a decision to become more active in our day to day level of fitness. This started when she started wearing a Fitbit Force in December and I followed suit with a Fitbit Flex in February. Seeing your daily activity stacked against your peer group in terms of what everyone should be doing and what they actually are accomplishing and seeing the disparity in both is motivating. However, counting steps and calories can only take you so far before you realize you’ve plateaued and need to do something more to bridge the gap and continue to make progress on your overall health.
Jessi started Power Up Piedmont on Meetup.com. Meetup.com is an active directory of people all looking to improve themselves somehow. Some do it for specific interests, but I believe that most do it as a way of extending their social life in an unfamiliar setting. The results of running our own Meetup have been amazing. We generally have one or two participants outside ourselves per meetup we organize which we’ve found is an amazing motivator.
The best part of it all is that we’re meeting new people while becoming more fit; knowing that our next workout someone is depending on our leadership has helped us to shape our daily fitness from an out of reach desire to something tangible we’re able to track on a daily basis.
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