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What is the One Piece of Fitness Equipment You Can’t Live Without? [Reader Question]

January 23, 2012

I was kind of rolling my eyes until I got to #9. That question will haunt me until my dying day. “So I have a post idea for you,” a friend at the gym recently said to me. (Incidentally this friend is the only person I have ever seen do the Wicked Wiper in person and he can do like 15 of them. It’s crazy. The first time we saw him do it we all burst into spontaneous applause on the weight floor which was even more awkward considering we hadn’t introduced ourselves yet and so pretty much looked like [...]

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What I’m Loving On Lately: Bras, Bottles and Biscuits (and new shoes!)

January 5, 2012

Bras. Whether you are teeny tiny like me or full-figured, finding the right one can be a huge pain both figuratively and literally. For me, I’m still devoted to The Handful for most workouts. Contrary to popular belief, tiny-on-top girls cannot wear any bra they come across in the junior’s section (unless you are a junior and then carry on). Especially if you’ve had children, you will discover as you get older that A cups need wrangling just like their bigger sisters which is why I still adore The Handful sports bra. I’ve been wearing them for years (and yes, [...]

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The Emergency Gym Survival Kit: My Holiday Gift to the Gym Buddies

December 19, 2011

Maxipad slippers!! If only I had thought to Google “hilarious maxi pad gifts” before I gave the Gym Buddies their presents! Ah well, there’s always next year… (Image and idea courtesy of Homemade Gifts Made Easy.) Who gives their friends panty liners for Christmas? I do! And I would have given them the panties to go with it if I’d been smart enough to guess their sizes. (Seriously I’m spatially dyslexic. My most challenging chore every night is to figure out what size Tupperware I need to put our leftovers in because I canNOT eyeball it and get it right.) [...]

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The Rules of Buying Fitness Shoes [And all the ways I break them...]

July 21, 2011

My favorite part of this pic is Gym Buddy Megan’s daughter’s face. She looks tougher than all 3 of us weird grown-ups. Fitness has so many rules that it is practically its own religion. Don’t believe me? Try and talk a triathlete out of their long ride/run/swim on Sundays. You might as well be stealing from the offerings plate. But it’s hard not to break a rule sometimes and I’m a rebel rule breaker! (Lie. I’m a total rules follower. Always have been, always will be.) Yet some of the worst fitness offenses I commit are related to one of [...]

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June’s Great CrossFit Experiment [For real this time]

June 1, 2011

Andrea may look tiny but girl can squat all 3 of us Gym Buddies put together. Plus she’s a mom of 1-year-old twins – if that doesn’t say strong, I don’t know what does! Butt wink. Andrea (long A) from CrossFit St. Paul hadn’t even known me for 30 minutes when she first told me I had a butt wink. The first time she said it, I was at the very bottom of a below-parallel back squat (First thing you should know about CrossFit: it is not enough to get to parallel on a squat, they are so hardcore you [...]

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3 Health Trends That Need to be Simplified

May 22, 2011

[No funny picture today. I have one but WordPress isn't letting me upload any pics for some bizarre reason. Will try updating it again later. In the meantime click through to check out this amazing vid!] There is nothing simple about these crazy talented people! You’ll want to watch this vid on full screen! (Thanks Leslie for the tip!) Complicating easy things is kinda my life’s work. I don’t want to brag or anything but I’m pretty much a genius at making things look hard. Whether it’s this whole motherhood thing – I’ve left a child at the gym so [...]

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Gym Hubby and MizFit Teach Me the Value of a Spontaneity [Are you a workout planner or improviser?]

May 17, 2011

A picnic dinner and a playground romp with the kiddos can cure pretty much anything. (Except strep throat. True story: “Bear Buddy” came home with my preschooler Monday with instructions to take him everywhere and write about our adventures in his notebook before returning him. To get a little inspiration as to what to write, I checked out some previous entries – of which every single one included “watched TV” in case you were curious – and discovered that the last child took Bear Buddy on a madcap adventure to the magical world of Urgent Care where she was diagnosed [...]

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Simple Fitness Tools to Amp Up Your Workout [Giveaway!]

May 16, 2011

Rainbow-striped sweat towel? Check. Hair pulled back? Check. Sports bra adjusted to move armpit skin inward so I can pretend it belongs on my chest? Double check! Dumbbells, Harbinger weighted jump rope, and My Trainer 100-Calorie Workout cards? Check! After a set-up routine that would make a shuttle launch jealous, the Gym Buddies and I were finally ready for today’s sweat fest. Well, except for one thing. Nodding solemnly, we slipped on our weight gloves, wrapped the velcro around our wrists and flexed our hands into fists just to hear that leather creak. Now we were ready for some serious [...]

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When Workouts Go Bad [Turning sandbags into a healthy snack]

February 8, 2011

Wardrobe malfunction. Three injured Gym Buddies. Lame exercises. And two broken nails! Monday’s workout – and I do not use this term lightly – sucked eggs. Oh and the best part: See the Gym Buddies all diligently picking up grains of wheat while I pose for pictures like a pageant princess? But you see that bag – that is not an unzipped pocket, that is the front of the bag ripped clean off! What is the number one comment people say when they see us working out with our sandbags? (Besides “Day-um, girl!” – only got that one once, today, [...]

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Gifts to Get Your Fit Valentine [Because I know you procrastinated too]

February 8, 2011

Patron saint of affianced couples (naturally), happy marriages (yay!), bee keepers (wait, wha..?), against fainting (isn’t everyone?), epileptics (that’s nice, I guess), the plague (the plague has a patron saint? It’s THE PLAGUE.) and l-o-v-e (awww!), Saint Valentine, “whose name is revered among men but his acts known only to God”, is one interesting guy. I’m not Catholic but I do love mysterious men! Especially ones who are celebrated with gift-giving occasions. As Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, skip the predictable massage, flowers or chocolates and try these gift ideas for the fitness freak in your life. Charlotte’s [...]

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