Disclaimer: This post may possibly be triggering for those struggling with eating disorders. They are not discussed in any detail but you know what you need – please take gentle care of yourself. Crystal Renn in her plus-size heyday Model Crystal Renn made huge waves (no pun intended) several years ago when she went from …
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The Gym Buddies and I are the lead story on Shape.com right now with our 20 Hip Hop Inspired Moves slideshow! Unfortunately I don’t have any bloopers from this shoot but it could be said that all the pics were hilarious, as you can see from this one of Allison that we really used in the …
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Some of you saw this pic when I Facebook/Tweeted it and were wondering what the Gym Buddies and I were doing at the bottom of the pool (and some of you also wondered how I have lived this long and not learned how to be underwater without plugging my nose – in my defense, in …
Why yes that is Gym Buddy Allison’s adorable grin gracing the front page of Shape.com! One-legged squats. Push-ups. Plank. Burpees. We’ve all seen them done so many times that, admit it, sometimes we write them off as too easy or boring. But in an article I wrote for Shape, I discovered that while these humble …
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Yeah, you totally wouldn’t want to do this move with your girlfriend. Especially if she’s the shirtless one. Starting out with the line, “I’ll admit that there may be some good reasons to bring along your significant other when you hit the gym, like providing her with the opportunity to do something about the hail …
Now, if I’d only had these babies… Like many of my ideas gone awry, it seemed like a good plan at the time. First, it involved walking on a beautiful day and that alone can mitigate many a bad consequence. Second, walking is a time honored bipedal tradition – and one I’m learning to embrace …
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Two questions: Why would anyone ever buy a flesh-colored bikini? With suits in every imaginable color and pattern, who looks at this and thinks “You know what’s hot? Beige.” Also, what on earth is that lamb thingy on the table? Loaf of lamb? Bread ferret? Lawn art?? The fat-free 90’s loved it. Atkins banned it. …
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Remember when we made fun of a certain ladymag for suggesting we should tie our ankles to the cable machine and spread our legs wide open as if the gym were our gynecologist? They promised it would work our inner thighs. And I promised to never molest a weight bench. In public. Needless to say …
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Item the first: Ashton Kutcher has amazing muscles, as evidenced by his latest spread in Men’s Fitness. (I’ll wait while you ogle.) Item the second: Ashton Kutcher has amazing muscles because he is a paranoid crazy… who makes a little too much sense to be entirely written off as a paranoid crazy. Oddly neither of …
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“Knockers!” “Jugs!” “Fun bags!” “Sweater puppies!” Sitting in the darkened audience at the talent show my friend put on as a fundraiser for breast cancer research, I listened as all my friends called out their favorite euphemisms for boobs. I wanted to contribute – what’s more fun than sitting in a big room talking girlie …
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