May 2010

How Many People Can YOU Cram Into a Kiddie Pool?

May 31, 2010

In celebration of Memorial Day, I’m partying with my peeps! Coming up this week: a supercute giveaway! Pilates Experiment Results and June’s Great Fitness Experiment! One of the strangest weight-loss methods you’ve ever seen (and yet has helped one Gym Buddy lose 20 pounds)! Don’t forget to enter my General Mills Giveaway for a free $25 gift card! It ends Tuesday. Jelly Bean did not enjoy her first time swimming. Not one little bit. (But she did get her first tooth this week! You can baaaarely see it down there on the bottom. If you squint. And are good at [...]

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Why Do You Exercise?

May 28, 2010

Mostly I exercise so I can make faces like this. Gets me my own treadmill any time of day. Librarians love me. Having cultivated a lifelong belief that everyone knows how to run my life better than I do, one of my favorite activities is begging people more knowledgeable than I am to tell me what to do. Which is how the venerable MizFit found herself on the receiving end of an emotional e-mail asking her why it is so hard for me to take a rest from exercise. She, not wanting another life to run in addition to her [...]

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Reverse Airbrushing: Photoshop Jumps the Shark

May 27, 2010

Now this is an appropriate use of photoshop, children. This will be the most head-spinning quote you will read all week (unless you read that story about the “new teen trend” of drinking vodka through their eyeballs – that one’s got a couple of doozies that’ll make you grab the nearest adolescent and shake them): “The editor of the top-selling health and fitness magazine in the U.S., Self, has admitted: ‘We retouch to make the models look bigger and healthier.’” Keep in mind this is the same mag that skinnified Kelly Clarkson to the point of unrecognizability not long ago. [...]

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The Number One Most Effective Weight Loss Tip [Giveaway!]

May 24, 2010

“50 Ways To Burn More Calories” is the biggest, boldest headline on this month’s Allure magazine (the one with a spacey Megan Fox on the cover where she says that she can’t stand looking at herself and the thing she loves most is to be alone so she often spaces out to block out crowds – good thing she chose Hollywood as her lifelong career then!) The list of 50 tips mostly includes non-stunners like “get more sleep” “walk more” “watch less TV” and “eat whole foods.” Salmon and brown rice, the cure-all for everything! Thankfully they also include some [...]

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Your Period Cramping Your Workout Style? There’s a Shoe For That!

May 23, 2010

If you are a woman, you must watch this video. I dare you not to laugh inappropriately loud. Benjamin Franklin forgot something when he said “nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.” He forgot menstrual cycles. Being that he’s a man, I suppose I’ll have to forgive him for not knowing what millenia of women do: That every month the majority of us women between 12 and 50 will spew stain-inducing bodily fluids with a regularity and frequency that put both death and taxes to shame (after all, unless you’re Elvis you’ll only die once.) The [...]

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The One Piece of Gym Equipment I’ve Never Tried

May 21, 2010

You’d think that I of all people would have tried every conceivable piece of gym equipment out there. And trust me, that’s on my list of 100 things to do before I die. It falls somewhere after making a cheese souffle (which requires something called a “ramekin” which I totally don’t have) and before figuring out who killed JFK (somebody did it, by golly). So it is with some embarrassment that I tell you that I only recently discovered the joy of the rowing machine. Gym Buddy Allison and I were a little baffled when “rowing” showed up on our [...]

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Hooters Waitress Suspended For Not Fitting Uniform

May 20, 2010

Hooters made news today by admitting what most of us already know: Despite claims that it is best known for its wings it turns out it is really selling breasts. And the rest of the well-shaped bodies of their famous scantily clad waitstaff. A Hooters in Detroit – does this city really need any more bad publicity? – recently put 20-year-old Cassandra Smith on probation for gaining weight. The pretty blond waitress and two-year Hooters veteran was called in for her annual review only to be confronted by her manager and a representative from corporate headquarters about her recent weight [...]

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What Do You Think About While You’re Exercising?

May 18, 2010

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 – and if that doesn’t tell you something about modern Japanese culture then I don’t know what does – promises to give you a good sweat while you cut a swath through the bad guys with your katana, the traditional weapon of choice for Japanese [...]

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Models Falling From the Sky: Thin is Not the New Black

May 17, 2010

Suicide is in the air. Kazakh model Ruslana Korshunova dove to her death from her New York balcony. Canadian model Hayley Kohle leapt to a similar fate from a balcony in Milan. On the same day as Kohle, model Randy Johnston died of a drug overdose. Columbian model Lina Marulinda also chose a free fall from a balcony. But there are other ways to die in the air besides jumping. Models Lucy Gordon, Daul Kim and Ambrose Olsen all recently hanged themselves, Olsen just last month. And of course, the inimitable designer Alexander McQueen ended his fashion juggernaut along with [...]

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Exercising With Groceries

May 14, 2010

Think food is just for eating?? Not if you’re the hilarious MizFit! No post from me today but “please to enjoy” the awesomeness that is Miz + Egg Whites as she shows you how to get a good workout with carton-encased chicken by products! Have a great weekend!

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