Someone please tell me because I don’t know. Does it look like my cousin Abby? She works out hours a day and is so thin she looks like a walking anatomy chart. Every few months she goes away for awhile. When she returns, looking slightly less gaunt, she tells us she was on “vacation.” While …
Increased insulin sensitivity. Faster healing. Cellular rejuvenation. Decreased blood pressure. Reduction in oxidative damage. Less type 2 diabetes. Less cancer. Less cardiovascular disease. Protection against heart disease. Decreased fat mass. Now hold up, there! All I read was scientificmumbojumbo blah blah blah decreased fat mass. That’s right. What if I told you that you could …
Now that I’ve let you in on some of my successful experiments, I thought I’d tell you the sad, sad tale of a failed one. So, pull up a chair and heat up a mug of schadenfreude. It was a dark and stormy night… The ExperimentActually, it was about 7 months after the birth of …
There are a few fitness theories that you hear argued about it in every gym. My favorite fitness myth is that women shouldn’t do weights because we’ll bulk out. (“I don’t wanna look like those scary super-tan chicks competing in those contests that only air at 2:30 am Saturday morning on ESPN! What do you …
Compared to overweight people, that is. Contradicting what I, and many of you, have come to feel is common sense, this study says that people in the “overweight” category of the BMI scale live longer, healthier lives than their “normal” counterparts with people in the “underweight” and “obese” categories having the worst outcomes. Okay, so …
No I’m not talking about me but thank you anyhow. The book. I’m talking about the book, people. Don’t pretend that you don’t know what I’m talking about. Posh Spice-Beckham (Is that right? It just feels right to hyphenate that.), among other skinny-starlet types, has been spotted carrying it, although heaven only knows why. If …
Or work out, that is. Alex had some great questions about my 12/8 sprints and, specifically, my workouts. So I thought I’d answer them. Right after I do a crazy happy dance that I actually have a READER!! Someone read my blog, people! I think I might faint. I haven’t even had the guts to …
My current fitness experiment centers around this research from UNSW in Australia. Nothing like a study from a foreign country to get me all riled up! The program: 2 sessions per week of 20 minutes on an upright bike. Each 20-minute session is broken into 60 mini-sprints of 8 seconds followed by 12 seconds of …
I should lay this on the table right away: I’m not trying to lose weight. I may possibly be the only woman in America who is not actively trying to lose weight. Now, lest you think me invulnerable to the pop-culture swamp that I live in, I would like to be about 10 pounds lighter. …
Everyone has their weird little obsessions – research is mine. I’ll read anything with statistics in it. If it starts with “A recent study shows…”, I’m in hog heaven. If it links to the actual paper with the actual study (and not just some teaser of an abstract) I might actually cry a little with …
