Colophon is a very silly word, but sadly there appear to be no decent alternatives, other than “About Me” or possibly the highly original “About the Author”. Anyway, regardless of name, this page is here to tell you a little about the site and its author.

The Author

The author (that’s me) is Dave Child, a geek from Brighton, on the south coast of the UK. I run a web development and marketing site in addition to this one at AddedBytes.com.

Until the age of 18, I played a lot of squash and fives (hours a day) and was in pretty good shape. I was no chiselled demi-god, but I was a healthy weight and fairly slim. Then I was on my own in the world, and without the constant of influence of parents my lifestyle quickly devolved into beer, pizza, late nights and no exercise. Fast forward 10 years and I’m substantially heavier and rounder than I once was.

I work, ironically, for a company that sells sports equipment and nutrition products and am surrounded daily by people who know their own body fat percentage.

My aim is to return myself to a decent shape and to improve my lifestyle in ways that will stick. I don’t want to shed a few stone and go back to bad habits - I want to replace bad habits with good and see where that leads. Hopefully it leads to the clothing section to buy new, smaller clothes. We shall see.

The Site

The site is, of course, a blog and is running Wordpress with a design I put together in 2007. I’ll almost certainly release it one day to the public as soon as everything else on my to-do list is finished. Do not hold your breath.

I’m hoping that the site serves to help me to stick to my aims and to be smarter about lifestyle and health choices. I also hope that it provides some help (and dare I hope a little inspiration) for others wanting to do the same thing.

I’ll try and stick to the main topic, but might stroll off into a few other areas from time to time (especially finance, which is closely linked to health and of great interest to me as I’m about as good with money as I am with avoiding cookies). Feel free to shout at me if you think I’ve strayed too far.

Finally, I do try and reply to every email (dave@geek-fitness.com) and comment. You are welcome to shout at me if I have failed in this. This site is supposed to be a conversation and is nothing without your input and advice.