If there’s one move that you will find in every workout from Jillian Michael’s to CrossFit to Bootcamp to Prison, it’s the lowly push-up. (Pushup? Push up? Whatever.) For good reason too, they work your shoulders, back, chest and even your core. But let’s be honest, push-ups have their drawbacks. They can be hard on …
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When our trainer said he was going to use the TRX to whip us into shape, I didn’t think he meant literally: What I love about this picture:1. ATTACK OF THE HUGE HAND! Run! Hide the children! 2. The fact that I am concentrating so hard – as evidenced by my durn-all-these-new-fangled-contraptions-and-their-tiny-buttons facial expression – …
Yes, I’ve used this picture twice on this site before but that is just how deeply I love this dude. I have titled it “Awesome Sauce.” I think he may be the patron saint of the GFE! Bikram kickboxing – you many not have heard of doing kickboxing in a super heated room before but …
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Metallica is performing live and center stage in mouth right now. And I’m not talking the stadium rocking from their glory days. No, my tongue tastes like the puke-covered floor under a mosh pit teeming with 200 sweaty dudes crammed into a third-tier club that hasn’t washed their floors since Slash last washed his hair. …
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Things would have gone better for me had I had one of these caps, I know it! Either you’re a swimmer or you’re not. False dichotomy though it may be, there is an easy test to see which camp you fall in. When someone tells you, “Let’s swim half a mile.” do you answer, “Sure! …
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Well hello there! Fancy meeting you at this park. Don’t worry I have lots of random fitness equipment to show you. No that’s not a euphemism and no I’m not trying to sell you any of it. Although this post is, apparently, sponsored by Subway. (Which is a bummer because Subway irritates me on two …
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I love a good Do-It-Yourself project! You should never let a good pair of used undies go to waste. Rowing until we (nearly) puked. Chest pressing our body weight (because we totally weigh 65 pounds). CrossFit’s workout of the day for today would have been bad enough all on its own. But our gym upped …
“I love you, man!” “Aw! Come to papa!” In the grand tradition of Sandra Bullock and Jesse James, Ross Gellar and his first wife Carol, and that governor from South Carolina who went MIA for two days to “hike the Appalacian trail”, my marriage was based on a lie. No, I’m not a neo-Nazi man …
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You’d think that I of all people would have tried every conceivable piece of gym equipment out there. And trust me, that’s on my list of 100 things to do before I die. It falls somewhere after making a cheese souffle (which requires something called a “ramekin” which I totally don’t have) and before figuring …
Be afraid, be very afraid: There is a silent killer lurking in your gym. Oh you may think your daily sweat fests are protecting you from injury and disease but in reality those free weights are a ticking time bomb with your number on it. And not just because the last person to use them …
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