Over the last couple of months, I've made some upgrades to this lovely little corner of the internet of mine, and one of those changes has been updating all of my recipe, travel, and workout pages. Before, everything was in a boring list format, but luckily, I found a plugin to help me organize everything in a more visually appealing way. The problem was, I didn't quite get the hang of categorizing posts until a few years into blogging, and even then I couldn't predict that I'd be indexing things this way later on, so I pretty much had to manually organize a lot of it. It was a tedious process, but luckily it's now completely done! Now my posts are broken down into more specific categories, every relevant post is shown with a fun little thumbnail, and it's easier to browse posts to ... [Read More]
Polar
Product Review: Polar FT40 Heart Rate Watch
A few months ago, I reviewed a heart rate monitor from Sportline that I wasn't too happy with. After writing that post and knowing that I needed a better watch to work out with, I reached out to my fellow Girls Gone Sporty ambassadors to see what their picks were. I received some great feedback from some women and decided to go with a Polar heart rate watch, or what they refer to as a training computer. If you're curious as to how wearing a heart rate monitor during exercise can benefit you, check out an article I just wrote on FitKit on this subject here. I've been reluctant to try a sport watch with a chest strap, for the simple fact that I was convinced it would annoy me. I guess I'm weird in that I hate things bothering me during workouts. For instance, my iPhone armband ... [Read More]