March 2011 – Charlotte Hilton Andersen

Is a Woman’s Body Always Open For Comment? [The Problem With Street Fashion Blogging]

by Charlottebody image, celebrities, fashion, sex March 31, 20118 Comments

photo from The Sartorialist Does this girl look fat to you? Would you describe her as “a bigger, curvier girl than most of the other bloggers who you see in the press”? This Italian small-time fashion blogger was photographed by big-time (perhaps the inventor the genre) street-fashion blogger The Sartorialist and in a post that …

Bringing Gymnastics Back to the Gym

by Charlottegym adventures March 30, 2011Comments are Disabled

Note: For those of you who get this via e-mail or thru a reader, you will want to click through to my site – there are a lot of videos in this post. Trust me, you don’t want to miss these. Handstands: they are our new favorite exercise and the trick we are determined to …

7 Reasons Why Yoga is the Perfect At-Home Workout [Plus Hot Yoga Report!]

by CharlotteExperiments March 28, 20112 Comments

No, Richard, not football! Save the short shorts for HOT YOGA. You’d totally fit right in! Extreme heat. Tiny room. Lots of nearly-naked people packed in nose to tail (literally so in Down Dog). All the elements were there for a monumental embarrassing moment. Would I fart – after all “wind-removing pose” is one of …

B Vitamins for Better Health or More Supplement Hype? [Getting Health Advice From the Costco Taste Test Guy]

by Charlotteresearch, supplements March 28, 20115 Comments

Cartoon says: (man) “Gosh, Honey, you seem to thrive on cooking, cleaning and dusting and I’m all tuckered out by closing time. What’s the answer?” (woman) “Vitamins, Darling! I always get my vitamins!” Charlotte says: Gee willikers, I want some speed fortified with vitamins too! I was accosted at Costco. It all started on Saturday …

Mini-Experiment: The SuperGirl Challenge! [Indecent acts with gym equipment]

by CharlotteMini-Experiments, weight lifting March 25, 20112 Comments

Oh yeah, look at me get down with my bad self! I wore my fitmarker wristband to parent-teacher conferences AND the boy scouts pinewood derby tonight, oh yes I did! “This makes me feel just like I did during my c-section! The bright lights, everyone staring down at me, me not knowing what’s going on …

How Do You Wash Your Gym Clothes?

by Charlottechildren, fashion March 24, 2011Comments are Disabled

It’s probably just laundry day. Or the Lady Gaga* tribute subway car. I’m gross. We’ve established that many, many, times on this blog. I didn’t start out this way – truly, ask the Gym Hubby how I used to have to make our bed every night before I could get in it – but having …

Organics: Do You Get What You Pay For?

by Charlottediets, food March 23, 2011Comments are Disabled

My frugality and fitness fanaticism are not mutually exclusive – in fact once you get past your Lululemon loving, living healthier saves you money in a lot of ways – but the one big health tip that everyone from Dr. Oz to Oprah to Jillian Michaels to PETA to Mark Sisson agree on is the …

Back to the Arms that Held Me

by Charlottechildren, mental health, personal essays March 21, 20113 Comments

For the record I would still totally wear that outfit. Downy duck fluff burrowed into my neck, the soft sigh of newborn breath so slight that I keep one hand lightly on her back to assure it rises and falls in concordance with my own. My other arm cradles her tiny warm body in this …

Do Men and Women Really Exercise Differently? [Plus Puke-Free Race Report!]

by Charlottereader questions, research, running, sex March 21, 2011Comments are Disabled

“Girls rule, boys drool!” “Girls go to Jupiter to get more stupider; boys go to Mars to get more candy bars!” And my favorite gender stereotype, brought home the other day by my 3rd grader: “Mom, did you know that when girls scream 3 times they can shatter glass? It’s because girls have high voices …

New Research: The Afterburn Effect is Real! [Do you workout to eat or eat to workout?]

by Charlottecardio, mental health, research March 17, 2011One Comment

The fountain of youth. The holy grail. Amelia Earhart. The second gunman. My electric sandwich maker that disappeared from my apartment freshman year leaving nothing but a trail of crusty cheese in its wake. There have been many epic searches throughout history but none have been more enticing and enraging for fitness freaks than the …