December 2010

Creatine Supplementing for Women: The Good, The Bad and The Bloated

December 29, 2010

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 a few of the many benefits of the supplement creatine. Benefits, I might add, that are very well supported by reliable research as creatine is possibly the most researched athletic supplement out there. So why isn’t everyone running to take this miracle in a powder? [...]

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PLAYout not Workout* [Working out should be fun, by golly!]

December 28, 2010

I’m chilling with the blog posts this week as I gear up for all the great stuff I have lined up for you guys in 2011. (In my new spare time I’ve altered/refit/sewn three vintage dresses plus crafted myself a new skirt out of an old maternity dress OH YES! Take that shopping addiction! I get an even bigger rush from remaking ugly clothes into hot ones! Who knew? Ok, you guys did since a ton of you told me to get a hobby so, you know, you were right. Thank you!) But I had to pop in to share [...]

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January’s Great Fitness Experiment: Fit Blogger Challenge

December 28, 2010

Don’t forget: if you want in on the January GFE, e-mail Lindsey at Lindsey@leanbodieshf.com with “GFE team entry” in the subject line. She will randomly select 5 of you for a free slot on the team. Anyone else who wants to join the Fit Blogger Competition can pay $30. For that price you get two workout programs plus a weekly challenge. The team who gets the most points gets to donate 1/3 of the proceeds to a charity of their choice! You might remember Lindsey from our January 2010 Great Fitness Experiment – she’s the one that first gave us [...]

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Happy Holidays From The Gym Buddies! [And January's Great Fitness Experiment]

December 23, 2010

Happy Holidays from all of us here at The Great Fitness Experiment! You guys are what makes doing this fun and I am so grateful to every single one of you! And I owe a HUGE thank you to all my Gym Buddies for putting up with me, talking me down and making me laugh every. single. day. Krista! Megan! Allison! And new for this Experiment: Daria! Would I ever miss a chance to mug? Man, I love these girls! After our photo op, we headed upstairs to do our Rachel Cosgrove weight routine (yes, in our costumes!) where we [...]

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What I Mean When I Say I Have 5 Children [Talking about the loss of a baby]

December 22, 2010

Willow Tree “Guardian“ “Noun: The evacuation of a dead child or organism.” Stillbirth. No warning at all, there it was right between “veterinarian: a person who practices medicine or surgery on animals” and “blunderbuss: a short musket of wide bore used for shooting at close range” as if dead babies are as pedestrian as ailing animals or Civil War era artillery. Automatically I typed s-t-i-l-l-b-i-r-t-h into the (super addicting) vocabulary game Knoword*. But I couldn’t go any further what for the tears crowding my eyes. That’s the way my grief works these days: when talking about my deceased daughter Faith, [...]

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Donkey Kicks: Boot Camp Move to Try Today! [Plus Bonus Circus Trick!]

December 22, 2010

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 and down the main hallway of the gym on wet carpet. I love you guys so I’m not going to make you do that. (Plus it would entail you finding some poor schmuck who’s going to let you lug him around a public venue with [...]

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Top Ten Gym Buddy Approved Gift Ideas for Fitness Fanatics

December 21, 2010

Prediction: those drinks are about to go flying right out of their hands! I try out a lot of things for this site and I’m not just talking workouts. Part of the fun of doing this site is that I also get to try out lots of new cool fitness stuff and – in the best situations – get to pass it on to you too. There have been some epic failures: how do I write in 500 words how insanely unflattering these pants are? The stripe goes right over the largest part of the thigh! Their model, naturally, looks [...]

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Cookie Detox: Using Food Combining to Beat Sugar Swings

December 20, 2010

When bad cookies happen to good cartoons. (Nobody saw anything wrong with this before it went to production? Really??) Cookies happen. It’s the holidays. I know there are some of you that will completely abstain from the sugary fare – I commend you; I did the no-sugar Experiment for 90 days over Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas and it was one of the hardest Experiments I’ve ever done – so you all can stop reading here. For the rest of us, chances are you are going to go gaga for ganache. (Or bonkers for brittle or cuckoo for cocoa puffs or [...]

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Superfoods and Meditation: I’m everywhere today! [2 Book Giveaways]

December 19, 2010

Muwhahah! You cannot escape me today! (Not that you’d want to, right?? Ok, even I get sick of me sometimes. I’d understand.) I’m guest posting today for two of my fave bloggers ever AND giving away a free copy of my book on each site! Join me at MizFitOnline to talk about learning to meditate while killing people! (And see how I shoehorn a political jab at Iranian President Ahmadinejad into a totally inappropriate place!) Meditation: I know I should do it! I want to do it! I don’t even need any equipment to do it! So why aren’t I [...]

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The Best Gym Outfit Ever is Mine!

December 19, 2010

Looky what I found at the thrift store for $1 !!! Now I just need an occasion to wear a pink sparkly halter top leotard with attached metallic bloomers! Valentine’s Day Turbokick? Gym Buddy Ugly Leotard Day? A random day on the weight floor suddenly gets spicy?? Totally worth posting on a weekend to share this moment with you guys. Take note: you WILL be seeing this outfit again! Got any suggestions for how to work this sex-ay little number into my workout routine? PS> Don’t forget to enter my $250 gift card to Best Buy and BlogHer and Intel’s [...]

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