January 2010

Putting the Person Back in Online Personal Training [Experiment Results]

January 29, 2010

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 quest to get herself on The Ellen Show. If this doesn’t do the trick, I don’t know what will!) In a word: It’s us. There are some Experiments we do that draw a lot of comments from the gray-haired peanut gallery and this month’s Personal [...]

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Does Breast Feeding Help You Lose Weight?

January 28, 2010

Salma Hayek has an amazing rack – and I’m not talking about her ability to fill a sweater, er, movie role. They’re amazing because of their ability to feed a baby. It’s the real secret in Victoria’s Secret – breasts are not just fun bags. They also squirt milk. Which I suppose could also be considered fun in some circles. Hey, I don’t know what you do with your Friday nights. But why am I talking about breastfeeding here on a health and fitness blog? (Besides the fact that it’s midnight and that always makes me random?) Because of the [...]

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The Haitian Earthquake, Kourtney Kardashian’s Baby Weight and Me

January 27, 2010

The little Haitian boy who greeted rescuers [after being trapped for 8 days] with a beaming grin as they freed him from a huge pile of rubble said yesterday, “I smiled because I was free — I smiled because I was alive.” Source. There was an earthquake in Minnesota this morning. It was pretty small – I don’t think it even registered on the Richter scale – in fact, I think it was localized just around our house. I was upstairs giving Jelly Bean her bath, despite her protestations that she is saving all that curdled milk in her neck [...]

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Total Ab Burnout in 6 Moves (or less!) [Mini-Experiment]

January 26, 2010

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 a challenge, a fault that has put me into more than one regrettable situation (cliff dancing anyone?). Thankfully many of you share the same flaw and quite a few of you jumped in too:So this morning found two of my Gym Buddies – the long [...]

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Do You Have "Time Sickness"?

January 24, 2010

courtesy of the awesome Natalie Dee I had a panic attack on Friday. A full-fledged hyperventilating, heart pounding, must do deep yogic breathing to remedy it, panic attack. What brought this on? A death in the family? Another discipline note sent home from the school? Heidi Montag having another surgery (heaven help us all)?? Nope. A friend came over to pick up my 2nd son for a playdate and surprised me by also taking the 3rd one (a.k.a. the one who has been insanely obnoxious ever since his sister has been born). Seeing as the eldest was in school and [...]

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Join me for a Mini Experiment? Plus: Spam Spam Everywhere and Contest Winner!]

January 23, 2010

Those of you watching me stumble around like a newborn colt on Twitter – yeah, I’m that bad – will already know about this but FitJerk threw down an ab-tastic challenge that I couldn’t resist! He posted his most killer ab workout and the Gym Buddies and I are going to give it a whirl (after finishing Lindsey’s workout of course!) on Monday. (Surprise, Gym Buddies!!) Anyone want to join in the pain fest? If you do it, make sure and send me an e-mail or tweet letting me know how it goes for you! Bonus points to TechnicalParent Joshua [...]

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Newsflash: 60% of People Have Mismatched Feet

January 22, 2010

I’m a freak. And I’m not talking about on the dance floor. Well except for Middle School. But nobody counts Middle School, right? No, I am a biological freak. Specifically, my left foot is a size 8.5 and my right is a 7.5. That’s right – a whole size different. It’s a miracle I can walk without toppling over (somebody start the telethon!). I’m not alone in this. 60% of the population have mismatched tootsies with 80% of those people having a left appendage of unnatural length. So I’m going to assume that a lot of you are beautiful little [...]

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Changing a Negative Self Image [Aplogies All Around]

January 21, 2010

It is not often I feel genuinely sorry for celebrities and yet – have you seen the video of Giuliana Rancic pestering women on the red carpet at the Golden Globes about their diet secrets?! Jezebel provides a helpful mash-up: Click thru to see the vid – it doesn’t allow for embedding. Sorry! It’s a veritable body-image gauntlet. How is it that the most important question a reporter can think of to ask an actress is what her diet and exercise routine really REALLY is? Especially when said reporter is so waifish herself. Just watching it was like being sandblasted [...]

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#1 Key to Longevity: Building a Community

January 19, 2010

You eat right and exercise. You get your flu shot. You even drink cod liver oil because it is the world’s best source of omega-3 fatty acids AND vitamin D, all together in one foul cocktail that you burp until lunch. Preventative care is your middle name. But there is one healthy living tip that you may not have heard. A tip so powerful that the evidence supporting it is even more compelling than than that of cigarettes causing cancer or obesity causing heart disease, according to Drs. Willcox, Willcox and Suzuki, authors of the famous longevity study The Okinawa [...]

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Experiment Update and a Confession

January 19, 2010

Well, that’s going to leave a mark! The Gym Buddies, 30 (ish) of you readers and I are halfway done with January’s Great Fitness Experiment. And what do I have to show for it? Sore muscles every single day, a ton of sweaty gym laundry and a bruise the size of a softball on my thigh. (Okay so technically the last one isn’t Lindsey’s fault – I tripped over that weight plate and banged into the weight stand and bit my lip so hard trying not to cry on the weight floor that I had blood-flavored lunch, all by myself. [...]

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