You could always go the Mariah Carey route (hint: it involves an airbrush, several colors of spray tan, and a drastic underestimation of the observational abilities of the general public.) Sit-ups: they’re the one exercise everyone has tried. Mostly because you can’t help it. Even as a baby it was one of the first things …
Dear Shape Magazine,Normally I read your pages with lukewarm interest and divided attention. I rarely get excited about an article – although it does happen sometimes – and am not the letter-to-the-editor type. That is, until I got your July issue in the mail a few days ago (never mind that it was May). There …
I bet MacGyver did P90X. Just sayin’ It’s a good thing that our YMCA recently replaced the carpeting on the gym floor (I will leave you to ponder why there is carpet on the gym floor at all) because if it’s one thing P90X did well, it was make me eat carpet. I did dive …
It’s big, it’s bad, it PUTS THE X IN EXTREME!!! (It also puts the yelling into infomercials!) That’s right, after over a year of pleading from you guys, I’ve finally got a hold of a copy of P90X for a Great Fitness Experiment! At $140, this workout is a little out of my budget and …
Sometimes when a man and a woman love each other, they make a baby. (I know you were confused – you’re welcome.) In this whole scheme, women get all the glory. After all, we’re the incubators. But you know who gets lost in all of the gestating, birthing, bleeding and nursing? Men, with their pittance …
In an effort to keep their large geriatric clientele happy, my YMCA has recently added a floor show for their morning entertainment. A show so gripping that it even tops Ellen. (Note: not really. Nobody can top Ellen. I just wanted to work that in here somehow to tell you to check out MizFit’s hilarious …
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When FitJerk posted his “Jerkdominal Blast” on Twitter, I might have just smiled remembering that my abs are only 2 months post baby expelling and not exactly up to anything involving blasts – or jerks for that matter – except that he said the magic word. No, not “please.” He said challenge. I cannot resist …
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This is probably not the best way to change up your workout. And also, don’t you wish it was a video?? When you are first starting out an exercise program, the weight machines look like medivel torture devices, you don’t know a hamstring curl from a cheese curl and the cardio machine buttons might as …
If you have time to conquer rogue planets from your swimming pool, you definitely have time to fit in a quick workout! “I don’t have time to exercise.” Probably the most oft used excuse of all time when people are explaining their lack of working out. And I believe them! Sort of. While it is …
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(Dear Dad, you are going to want to stop reading here. Seriously. Actually all men will probably want to skip this one.) Now that Jon and Kate are finally divorced (the 8 went with Kate – I’m guessing the Judge was a Dr. Suess fan), the country can now focus its collective attention on more …
Read more “What To Do With A Large Rack (And I’m not talking about weights)”
