Life is full of difficult choices. Take tonight for instance. The cold weather necessitated me pulling out all the workout pants I’d packed away in the spring that, courtesy of my I’m-totally-trying-not-to-obsess-about weight gain, don’t fit like they used to. But I figured anything made out of 7% spandex can accommodate a few more curves …
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Aww! I miss the ’80s! Who doesn’t love a furry loin cloth that requires a bikini wax to wear??It finally happened: I got the “you look too muscular” comment from another woman in the gym. Gym Buddy Allison and I were minding our own business, finishing up our second set of 10 reps of 135-lb …
This will not surprise you: I spend a considerable amount of my life trying to convince people to try new things. It ranges from small things like trying to get a stranger at the grocery store to try the free yogurt sample with me to big things like voting in a primary election (you! Vote!!) …
My friends paid a boy to kiss me. I was sweet sixteen and never been kissed – a fact that I remain unapologetic about to this day – but my friends decided that the best birthday present they could give me would be a soft-lipped hottie to revoke my VL membership. It didn’t quite turn …
Photo Credit: Natalie Dee In another edition of research confirming the obvious, a new study has come out to report that “scientifically chosen” music will amp up your workout by – are you ready – 15%! I’m not sure exactly how they arrived at that very precise number but I definitely agree with their findings. …
Photo Credit Our society is warped. Twisted. A veritable fun-house of fat and thin mirrors when it comes to body image. We’re all well aware how the media accustoms us to starlets sylphlike on screen and sacks of bones in real life. Because the camera adds 15 pounds these days, you see. Even Kim Kardashian, …
“Those are, um, quite the shoes,” my friend B said diplomatically, staring at my feet. “Wow, you sure are, uh, taller today!” commented P, staring at my feet. “I bet those are real…comfortable,” the night manager at the grocery store chirped, staring at my feet. “Your mom has ROCKER shoes,” exclaimed my son’s friend C, …
9 am on a Random Monday Morning. Gym Buddy Allison Calls. A: I have an idea. Let’s skip class today and go to the mall! me: Oooh, will you make me a mix tape too? And then maybe we can hold hands? A: Funny. I’m serious. Let’s play hooky from the gym. me: Um, mall …
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The Uncomfortable Telling, Part I“C…c…can I come in? I need to talk.” Crying the ugly cry before Oprah ever coined the term, I stood shivering in the sunlight on his doorstep. There was snow but I wore only a thin green t-shirt and jeans. I couldn’t remember where I’d left my coat and sweater. He …
Any Experiment that ends with old ladies running across the gym to my aid screaming, “Oh my dear, are you okay?!?!?” is my kind of Experiment. And the Kettlebell Experiment does not disappoint in this area. It was the renegade rows that did me in. Also called floor rows or plank rows, they’ve long been …
