Rainbow-striped sweat towel? Check. Hair pulled back? Check. Sports bra adjusted to move armpit skin inward so I can pretend it belongs on my chest? Double check! Dumbbells, Harbinger weighted jump rope, and My Trainer 100-Calorie Workout cards? Check! After a set-up routine that would make a shuttle launch jealous, the Gym Buddies and I …
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Wardrobe malfunction. Three injured Gym Buddies. Lame exercises. And two broken nails! Monday’s workout – and I do not use this term lightly – sucked eggs. Oh and the best part: See the Gym Buddies all diligently picking up grains of wheat while I pose for pictures like a pageant princess? But you see that …
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Patron saint of affianced couples (naturally), happy marriages (yay!), bee keepers (wait, wha..?), against fainting (isn’t everyone?), epileptics (that’s nice, I guess), the plague (the plague has a patron saint? It’s THE PLAGUE.) and l-o-v-e (awww!), Saint Valentine, “whose name is revered among men but his acts known only to God”, is one interesting guy. …
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Daria and I model our sandbags. Hers is leaking black coal dust down her back and yet she’s still smiling. What a trouper! Ever had your butt handed to you by a piece of fitness equipment? Well I sure did. Our very first day of the Sandbag Experiment ended with sandbag: 20, Charlotte: 0. One …
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This pic amuses me because I found it on a site under the heading of “preschool crafts”. It’s titled “Build a sand castle with tin cans.” Uh-huh, sure. You’re going to write your kid’s college admissions essay too aren’t you? “Why are you buying play sand in the middle of a blizzard?” The cashier at …
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I salute the master of the no-slip hair clip! Do you think that wire leads to a battery pack? What is the one thing you absolutely cannot workout without? Working out as long as I have and in as many different situations as I have (and losing as many brain cells as I have), I …
Prediction: those drinks are about to go flying right out of their hands! I try out a lot of things for this site and I’m not just talking workouts. Part of the fun of doing this site is that I also get to try out lots of new cool fitness stuff and – in the …
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Truer words were never spoken. Take note Nicki Minaj. Every day before I write a post, I ask myself, “How can I uplift my readers today?” Well today I get to uplift you in a whole different way! As in, your butts! And no, no TSA employees will be involved, I promise. You’ve seen the …
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Ummm… this would be the advanced section of outdoor exercise. I do not like being cold. Also, I am cold all the time. Knowing these two facts will tell you pretty much everything you need to know about me. It why I hate swimming (also known as controlled drowning). It’s why big fuzzy socks are …
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This is a compensated review by BlogHer and Intel. I only wish I were as cool as this guy. There are many things they do not tell you when you first have a child, like the fact that your post-partum butt will look exactly like those baboon butts at the zoo – minus the flies, …
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