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Proprioceptive Exercises: It’s 10 p.m., do you know where your legs are? [My new favorite workout!]

February 7, 2013
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This owlet has it nailed! Check out that proprioception – he can even sleep one one foot! Also: Awwwww!!!! Do this now. Yes, right now. It will just take a minute. Probably less. Whatever you are doing, drop it (okay not literally, especially if you’re doing dishes – but then how would you be reading this?) and take off your shoes. Do it! (I get bossy when I’m excited. You’re gonna love this!) Now stand up and lift up one leg at least 6 inches off the ground. Don’t rest your foot on your knee or anything else. Close your [...]

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Foam Rolling: Fabulous or Fad? [Teach me to love the roller!]

October 24, 2012
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See, THIS is how I use foam in my workout: to stuff fake pieces of candy to pin to my Katy Perry costume for our annual celebrity- themed Turboween workout tonight! And seriously, how hot do I look with blue hair? I kinda want to dye it cobalt blue. Because kickboxing for an hour in a wig is something not even Smurfette should have to endure.  “Hurts so good!” “Absolute must-do!” “MIRACULOUS!!” It was that last one that got me and not just because it turned exercise into a religious experience on par with seeing the Virgin Mary in a [...]

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What Does Your Yoga Mat Say About You? [Mine says I have an awesome immune system since I usually use the gym's!]

June 10, 2012

See? He’s so cool he doesn’t even need a mat! The Times was right! Scorpio? Libra? Who needs a sign to make unfounded snap judgements about strangers? The zodiac is sooo 70′s! According to the NY Times, the new thing is to judge a girl by her yoga mat. (Because yoga is soooo, uh, ’70′s?) Actually the Times article is mainly about whether to use a sticky mat or go commando on the bare floor (for all you hygiene enthusiasts, apparently the floor gets cleaned a lot more than your mat*) but anyone who has been to a yoga studio knows [...]

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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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