*Warning for possible triggers regarding eating disorders.* Your body grows and repairs when you rest – even babies know that! And also: Babeez spooooning!! Awwwwww. “How did you find time to exercise 3-6 hours a day?” (I organized everything else in my life around exercise, didn’t sleep much and did insane stuff like shuttle sprints …
Stylin’ at the start line! Ever had a super annoying running partner*? There’s The Perma-Injured – the person who always has something wrong with him/her, whether it be fallen arches or a sore knee or a blocked aura or whatever. New day, new injury. Then there’s The Whiner – the one who complains about the weather, his …
My #1 motivation for getting better and staying better: These guys. Wanting to exercise all the time: Yeah, yeah, it’s the problem everyone wishes they had. But the compulsion that drives someone to be a gym rat is hardly enviable. First, just like eating disorders aren’t about the food, compulsive over-exercising isn’t about the fitness. …
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kinda doesn’t look so sexy now… Image from Oprah.com Peeing while camping. Opening jars. Changing in public. The freedom to have pit hair long enough to braid and not even care. There are some occasions when it would be pretty awesome to be a dude. And now I can add running to that list. While …
I think this guy is on to something: he just condensed the whole eat-exercise cycle down to one picture-perfect moment of glory! You need to eat to live. You also need to exercise to live. But do you eat and exercise to live or do you live to eat and exercise? Silly question but it’s …
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Disaster struck at the gym this morning. We were doing the P90X fitness assessment to prepare for February’s Great P90X 2 Experiment (I know!! Squee!!!) that we start Wednesday. The test has you check your performance against the P90X standard in pull-ups, push-ups, in-and-outs (abs), vertical jump, biceps curl max, wall sit, flexibility and a …
Pretty sure this is about to be “bad sore.” Great news: After about a year of stagnation I broke my deadlift personal record! By a lot! While this was awesome and made me strut around like Ashton Kutcher in a sorority house, two problems became immediately apparent: 1. I did a whole set at my …
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See? All that exercise made her forget which way gravity works. Happens to me all the time. It turns out that Sammy Sosa and Floyd Landis may not be lying – new research says they may reallynot remember how all those drugs got in their system. Apparently all the exercise got to ‘em. For myself, not …
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Today I experienced one of those weird occurrences that have baffled me ever since I seriously got into fitness – call it the Bermuda Triangle of Exercise, if you will. Just like Amelia Earhart – but less heroic and revolutionary and without the rubber helmet (just what exactly was that supposed to protect you from …
“Mildly obsessed.” This was Kelly T’s, of Grounded Fitness, personal assessment of me and one I take as quite the compliment. Although I think she underestimates me. I’d call me “majorly obsessed.” And if I’m being really honest I’d call me a bit of a compulsive exerciser. Which can be a problem. As a few …
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