Balance, flexibility, strength, puddles of sweat, strange men in teeeeny tiny spandex shorts Down-Dogging it right in front of you – the benefits of yoga are well-documented and numerous. (Okay maybe not that last one.) In addition to giving you a new vocabulary littered with phrases like “third eye” “chakra” and “chaturanga” (ten points if …
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This pic amuses me because I found it on a site under the heading of “preschool crafts”. It’s titled “Build a sand castle with tin cans.” Uh-huh, sure. You’re going to write your kid’s college admissions essay too aren’t you? “Why are you buying play sand in the middle of a blizzard?” The cashier at …
Read more “February’s Great Fitness Experiment: Sandbags! [Plus Creatine Experiment results]”
Having just finished Day 1 of our Fitness Challenge Experiment with Lindsey, the Gym Buddies and I all got our body fat percentage tested so we’d have our official results from November and December’s Rachel Cosgrove Experiment. I posted last night about my results from it but these new numbers were so stunning I had …
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Click picture to enlarge. I wish I had a source for this, it’s hilarious! Fragile. Tiny. Vulnerable. Weak. I’ll admit it: I liked being those things. For a long time (most of my life?), I enjoyed people grabbing my arm and cooing “Oh, I’ve never seen such a tiny wrist!” I liked that men got …
Read more “The Beauty of Strong Women [Rachel Cosgrove Experiment Results are in!]”
Proof that even the skinniest girl will look bloated if she stands wrong. And this is how 80% of Star magazine’s headlines are born… Increased muscle growth, faster recovery, increased endurance, less body fat, reversal of the beginning stages of heart failure and greater mental acuity (about a 10 point increase in IQ!) are just …
Read more “Creatine Supplementing for Women: The Good, The Bad and The Bloated”
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 …
Read more “Donkey Kicks: Boot Camp Move to Try Today! [Plus Bonus Circus Trick!]”
Comic credit: Beartato (click to enlarge) “Don’t you do that!” Gym Buddy Krista commanded me this morning. “I saw your face when you read that number and don’t you do that!” I have a terrible poker face. (Not that I ever play poker; I don’t even know the rules. Which is probably why I incorrectly …
Read more “Alert the Media: I have abs again! [Experiment results are in!]”
Ummm… this would be the advanced section of outdoor exercise. I do not like being cold. Also, I am cold all the time. Knowing these two facts will tell you pretty much everything you need to know about me. It why I hate swimming (also known as controlled drowning). It’s why big fuzzy socks are …
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Attention, please: We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming of All Crazy All The Time to bring you an important announcement. This is not a test, I repeat, not a test. TA-DA! Those, my friends, are the batteries out of my scale, a.k.a. my Weight Watchers branded silver shackles! At first I was going to do …
The question you should be asking is not why these men are running nearly naked in the snow but rather why are they wearing swimming caps… Nothing is as mythical in fitness lore as the Protein Shake. Whole websites are devoted to getting the most out your smoothie, entire books of workout-shake recipes have been …
