At some point, worrying about our health can become unhealthy in and of itself. This video speaks volumes, and it’s absolutely must-watch.

You don’t become the world’s richest man without being a bit eccentric. But this is pretty outrageous, and it’s something we never knew about Warren Buffett.

Warren Buffett is obsessed with weight. Obsessed as in OCD. He pays family members to stay within a certain BMI range, and ties weight goals to pay structures for his children.

This video is a fascinating look both at an American icon and a cautionary tale of placing too much emphasis on weight.

Image credit: Topnews.in

This cool little tool allows you to browse iTunes for the music you’d like, then get it directly from Amazon to bypass DRM. This is especially useful to Podfitness users, so I thought I would share. It’s Mac only at the moment, but the second it’s available for Windows we’ll let you know.

Browse through the iTunes Store, just as usual. Or use iTunes Genius feature to find new music.

When you find something you want, click on Get MP3 from Amazon in the iTunes Script Menu.

Advantageous mp3 takes you to the artist’s or album’s Amazon MP3 site. You can buy the music DRM-free and in better quality.

Advantageous mp3

Just because something has been proven to not kill you doesn’t mean we should be overloading on it.

If you recognize yourself in the statements below, beware. You may need to make a special effort to stick to a program. Check off any statement that sounds like it could have come out of your mouth:

“This time, I’m really going to stick to it! I mean it, I’m totally, 100% committed!”
This person sounds like she’s trying to convince herself but not really succeeding.

“I’m potentially thinking that maybe I might join this class.”
This person hasn’t really made up his mind. He’s not committed. Although he sounds very different, he’s actually an awful lot like the person who says…

“I have to start TOMORROW. No delay!”
This person is afraid that she’s going to lose her resolve. It’s probably happened to her before.

“Well, afternoons don’t work. And I can’t do mornings. I can come Tuesdays at noon, but not this Tuesday. Or next Tuesday…”
The President of the United States works out almost every day! If people really want to exercise, they find the time.

“I’ll squeeze it in at lunchtime. I can just run out between meetings.”
This person hasn’t acknowledged to himself that exercise must be its own priority, and if he doesn’t do that, it’ll always get shoved to the bottom of the to-do list. Which means it won’t happen.

“I can’t wait to start. But first, I need to buy some new clothes. And some new shoes. And a mat. And I want to read up on it, too.”
My wife is like this. She loves shopping and everything involved in the preparation stage. But once she has all the stuff she needs for yoga or rollerblading or whatever, she loses interest.

If any of these statements remind you of yourself, use it as a warning sign to re-commit yourself to sticking to your exercise plan.

But we know, deep down, this is only half true. Sure, if we all had unlimited time, many more of us would work out, but even with our compressed schedules, we find time to squeeze in other things that are important to us.

The fact is, we just need a compelling enough reason to get started. If you find the right reason, it will take you past the point where you want to quit, to the point where working out is a habit, even part of your identity.

For the affluent, hiring a personal trainer is a great way to create that reason. It’s expensive, but having someone waiting for you, on your dime, is in instant reason to be at the gym.

For the rest of us, we need to look a little harder for the reason. We love Podfitness, but we still have to have a reason to want to show up. Several of us have started boxing. It’s an unconventional, fun, and exhilarating (and sometimes exhausting) way to get fit, and it helps build a skill that requires you to up your fitness level to get better.

For some of us, it might be a pair of jeans we want to fit into. For others, it could be getting ready for wedding photos. And for a lot of us, there are health problems we know we’re in danger of that only exercise can prevent.

Whatever it is, start paying attention to your feelings to find something in your life that would get an upgrade if you start exercising now. The rest will fall into place once you find your foothold.

After the coin toss, it was decided that we’d have to change our name.*

The fact is, after 3 1/2 years, we’re no longer just a “downloadable iPod accessory”: We’ve got versions for Zune and other MP3 players, and we’re expanding into the mobile arena and other awesomely cool places that have to stay secret for now.

We think NextFitness is a good choice, it implies that our direction is way beyond iPods or podcasting, without being too much of a shock to the system (we’re not going for trite web 2.0 stuff like “fitr” or anything!). Hopefully, it is indicative that we’re bringing something entirely new to the world of fitness.

Over the next few weeks, you’ll start to see subtle and not-so-subtle changes around our product and our website. We can’t wait to show you what we have in store, and as always, we welcome your comments and input.

*We can’t confirm it was decided by coin toss; it was an educated guess on our part.

In the “highly interesting observations” department, look what an eagle-eyed observer noticed this week.

From our fitness profile:

And here’s an eerily similar set of qualifications from a new fitness site:

There are 2 scary things about this:

1. They couldn’t even keep the grammar intact. From seeing the site, spelling and grammar are not their strong suits, but they actually wrecked the grammar after cutting and pasting!
2. The material they stole came from inside the fitness profile. That means they signed up for Podfitness before ripping us off. Who knows what else they stole to make their product?

We won’t be linking to their website, because their company name does not even come up when you search for it in Google, and we’d like to keep it that way.

We have no idea about the legal ramifications of this; we at the Podfitness Blog are not lawyers and whatever happens is well outside our realm of opinion and commentary.

It looks to me like they were “shooting for the stars” and landed on our website.

(image credit: University of New South Wales Website)

If this is true, he must be doing a lot of swimming to keep it off! Here are the stats on what he supposedly eats per day:

• Breakfast consists of three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise. He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.
• Lunch is a pound of enriched pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches slathered with mayo on white bread - capping off the meal by chugging about 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.
• At dinner it’s a pound of pasta and an entire pizza, and another 1,000 calories of energy drinks.

Now our trainers here are saying that’s impossible and he would gain weight regardless of how much swimming he’s doing, but I found it interesting nonetheless.

On a similar note, GO USA SWIMMING! Phelps and company have been demolishing the competition. Just check out this video from the 4×100 meter team relay. Amazing! It really makes me want to spur our content team to get some swimming programs in place for those that have waterproof MP3 players.