As the 200th post on FitHacks.com, I’d like to show the sweet picture that longtime FH reader Butch has sent in. Yes, that is the FitHacks iPhone app running on the shiny new iPad. I can honestly say that this blog has never looked so beautiful.

Happy Bicentennial FitHacks (and thanks for the image of the day, Butch).

As promised, today is the start of the FitHacks subscriber contest! The prize for this little giveaway is a brand new, unopened Sony W-Series Walkman. This is just a simple way to thank all of the awesome FitHacks subscribers that continually inspire me with their feedback and support.

If you’d like to be entered into the contest, all you have to do is follow the two ridiculously easy steps below:

1 – Subscribe to the RSS feed of FitHacks. It’s free and provides the easiest access to all the latest FitHacks content. You can grab the feed here and subscribe with any RSS reader you choose.

2 – Wait for the RSS contest submission code. Sometime later this week a secret code will be released through the RSS feed (you won’t see it if you aren’t subscribed). When you see the code simply paste it into the comments section below on this blog post.

That’s it! This time next week (Monday, May 10), I’ll randomly select one of the comments containing the correct code and will ship them the brand spanking new MP3 player from Sony. Any Questions?

Note: All comments that supply the correct code will be filtered out from public view. This is to ensure that no one is cheating and that everyone has properly subscribed to the feed. So if you posted a comment but it didn’t show up, don’t worry. I can see it. Thanks for playing along and don’t forget to grab the feed!

(photo by auburnxc)

As the last post of the month, I just wanted to take some time thanking every visitor, commenter, and subscriber of FitHacks. You guys have made this month the best month ever. Seriously, without the discussion, encouragement, and debate from everyone that has contributed, I would have shuttered the doors of this blog long ago.

That being said, I’d like to announce some awesome news. FitHacks has an iPhone app!!! Created by FitHacks reader (and personal friend) Josh Grenon, the app is now live in the Apple App Store. Now readers can interact with the blog on a whole new level. Best of all, you can purchase this app for the low, low price of free!

Also, I’ve decided to join the year 2005 and create a FitHacks Facebook page. If you’d like to join our FB community and converse about about diet, exercise or Indiana Jones movies hop on over and fan us up!

Personally, February has been pretty awesome too. I was able to finish my half-marathon under my goal time and have really kicked up my strength training and sprint workouts. Last night, I joined some friends for their sprint routine and nearly threw up two separate times. I think that means I was doing it right

Favorite February Posts:
15 Online Fitness Resources
Busted! – 5 Fitness Myths I Used to Believe
Stop Comparing Yourself to Others

Lastly, I’ll leave you with a beast of a man doing a clapping handstand pushup followed by a one-armed chinup. Yes, you read that right.

I’m currently in the process of rolling out some new features, updates and design changes to the blog. Hopefully, it will make the site easier to navigate and prettier to look at. The biggest change so far has been the roll out of Disqus Comments. By using this new system of commenting, anyone can login using Facebook, Twitter, or their OpenID account and join in the discussion right away. Unfortunately, in the transition to the new commenting system I seem to have temporarily lost all the previous comments that were left here by courteous readers. I’m in the process of trying to recover them but in the meantime, please feel free to test out the new system by commenting on any post that catches your interest.

Thank you for all the sharing, linking, and tweeting that has been going on lately. It really is a joy to talk to people with a shared interest in fitness, weight loss, and random goofiness.

Welcome to fithacks.com, the newest health and fitness blog around. I really wanted to start this site as a place where I can share some of the tips and tricks I’ve learned on my journey of fitness. In April 2007, I was the heaviest I’ve ever been and I decided to make a lifestyle change. Since that time just a few months ago, I am approaching 30 pounds of weight lost and it feels great. With each passing week the continual weight loss only inspires me to go further. I hope this site can help encourage, or even start you on your own fitness journey.