iPhone fitness apps

For anyone lucky enough to have a lovely shiny iPhone, here is a brilliant article to help you leverage it to get surf-fit: 100 Fabulous iPhone Apps for Your Health and Fitness By Jessica Merritt includes tracking, nutrition, dieting, yoga, meditation and calculating apps.

SurfGirl's favourites are 101 Cookbooks with 'great healthy recipes' (shown is the Seaweed Risotto, mmm), and the Blood Alcohol Concentration Calculator, which will 'help you figure out your level of inebriation' — because, let's be realistic, work(out) has to be balanced with play!

CARVE blog

Our big brother CARVE magazine has decided to copy us and get in on the blogging action – it won't be as cool as the SurfGirl blog! But if you want to check them out, go here: CARVE blog

In There Like Swimwear

Anyone want out of this British winter? Apply for a six month contract living rent-free on Hamilton Island just off Queensland, Australia. All you have to do is blog and video your experiences…diving, snorkelling, fish-feeding… To apply, create a 60 second video about how ideal you are for the post. It sounds too good to be true, but it's real, we've checked! More details here…

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