This will not surprise you: I spend a considerable amount of my life trying to convince people to try new things. It ranges from small things like trying to get a stranger at the grocery store to try the free yogurt sample with me (it’s less gross if you do the fiber shots with a …
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 – …
What I’m about to tell you is going to make me very unpopular*. (Never mind that I spent so much time being unpopular in high school that it is pretty much my natural state of being.) You know that old weight lifting trope “Don’t fear the heavy weights; women don’t have enough testosterone to get …
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 …
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I’m running away to join the circus. You will forgive my impending abuse of hyperbolic punctuation, then: OHMYGOSH YOU GUYS I HAD SOOOOO MUCH FUN!!!!!! Last night was my first – and definitely not last – circus class at Gleason’s Gymnastics (for any of you locals looking for a fun time). For some reason nobody …
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Toilet sore – the kind of sore where you have to lower yourself with both hands onto the toilet and then fall the last few inches because your quads are in so much pain – is actually a much coveted condition among the Gym Buddies and I. Mostly because we like to yell “I’m toilet …
Who says eating healthy and staying fit has to hurt? Crossfit does, that’s who. Today’s workout of the day had the Gym Buddies and I power snatching 75 times. Oh yes, you read that right – 75 reps of this: We were supposed to be snatching 75 pounds. Krista managed to snatch that twice while …
Bloody rampages can really get the blood pumping – in more ways than one. The hottest new fitness trend coming out of Japan (where else do all slightly demented yet meteoric trends come from these days?) is Samurai Training. The aerobics class, which is open to both genders but is almost exclusively dominated by women …
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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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