Note: For those of you who get this via e-mail or thru a reader, you will want to click through to my site – there are a lot of videos in this post. Trust me, you don’t want to miss these. Handstands: they are our new favorite exercise and the trick we are determined to …
So the family and I are taking a week-long vacay! Yes, I’m going to be THAT woman, flying with four small children. Sigh. So if I’m slow answering comments or e-mails or tweets this week, that’s why! But I’ve got some great (all new!) posts scheduled and I’ll be blogging a bit from the road …
Me: “My butt hurts!” Gym Buddy: “Your butt always hurts! Even pull-ups make your butt sore!” Me: “Why is that?” Other Gym Buddy: “I don’t feel my butt but I can’t laugh for how sore my abs are.” Gym Buddy: “Oooh me too – and heaven help me if I sneeze!” Me: “Sneeze crisis! Do …
Read more “I Like My Workouts With a Side of Whine [When workouts go meh]”
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 …
Read more “When Workouts Go Bad [Turning sandbags into a healthy snack]”
When a Gym Buddy sent this to me: I’ll admit my first reaction was to be a bit flattered. Even if they didn’t mean me in particular, all the ladies I work out with (and by that I mean pretty much every girl in the gym at the same time) are hawt mamas. But then, …
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 …
Read more “How (Not) To Use a Sandbag [Gym Buddy Workout Videos!]”
Probably good advice, actually. (To see the rest of Eminem’s Top Ten Pieces of Advice For Kids, see the vid at the bottom of the post.) “Well what you need to do, see, is get some creatine. Yeah it’s gotten a bad rap over the past few years but it’s pretty much the only supplement …
Tuesday was a very special day here at the Great Fitness Experiment. I got to do my second-ever blogger meet up! (Kara of Mama Sweat was my first.) Katie of Making Food and Stuff was up here in the arctic wasteland visiting family and she generously (naively?) offered to come do a workout with the …
Read more “The Power of a Good Gym Buddy (Or 10) [How do you workout – alone or in a group?]”
Tuesday was a very special day here at the Great Fitness Experiment. I got to do my second-ever blogger meet up! (Kara of Mama Sweat was my first.) Katie of Making Food and Stuff was up here in the arctic wasteland visiting family and she generously (naively?) offered to come do a workout with the …
Read more “The Power of a Good Gym Buddy (Or 10) [How do you workout – alone or in a group?]”
I’m chilling with the blog posts this week as I gear up for all the great stuff I have lined up for you guys in 2011. (In my new spare time I’ve altered/refit/sewn three vintage dresses plus crafted myself a new skirt out of an old maternity dress OH YES! Take that shopping addiction! I …
Read more “PLAYout not Workout* [Working out should be fun, by golly!]”
