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 …
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Boot camp at our Y is the personal trainers’ class to try out every crazy, painful and downright evil move they don’t dare use on their paying customers. Case in point: The Trainer Pull. Trainer Riley squats on two sliding discs, hands me two resistance bands like reins and then has me pull him up …
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Today’s post is brought to you courtesy of Ryan at No More Bacon. We decided to switch blogs today so I’m posting over at his site and he’s posting here! If you don’t read him, you must – not only is he hilarious (he invented Justin Bieber yoga after all) but he is also one …
There are few illnesses as inherently funny as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Particularly if you are an observer and not a sufferer. But even those of us that suffer from it can get plenty of giggles from seeing all the “crazy” stuff other people do. If you have seen As Good as it Gets and laughed …
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There are many healthy activities that I wish I could do but for various reasons can’t get away with. Take running at night – it feels like flying but there are myriad safety issues. And now that I’m a responsible mom-person, I can’t risk a twisted ankle or, worse, a mom-napping. I’d also love to …
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 (it’s less gross if you do the fiber shots with a …
We’ve all seen Photoshop used to slim down “fat” people (read: everyone not emaciated), hid pimples, smooth aged skin and even to plump up sickly thin people but the Saudi Arabian censors have taken computer image enhancement to a whole new level: They used it to de-sluttify Mariah Carey. Somebody nominate them for the Nobel, …
I just finished reading October’s Fitness magazine (The one with the lady in the bikini on the cover. No, not the bikini-clad girl on the bike. Or the one on the beach. Or the 20 standing in the water. The one with the bikini-clad girl standing in the water by the beach BUT wearing an …
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See? He’s so cool he doesn’t even need a mat! The Times was right! Scorpio? Libra? Who needs a sign to make unfounded snap judgements about strangers? The zodiac is sooo 70’s! According to the NY Times, the new thing is to judge a girl by her yoga mat. (Because yoga is soooo, uh, ’70’s?) …
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What are you going to be for Halloween this year? I know, I know we’re still more than a month out but I’ve got the annual Turboween coming up! It may possibly be my most favorite Turbo workout of the year. This year the theme is “Superheroes” and while my house is replete with capes …
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