Branching out beyond the adorable-yet-small-thinking tiny tots with their eyes all aglow crowd, Santa Claus made a pit stop at the YMCA this year. In an effort to reach an older and more lucrative crowd, while coal was not on the agenda – although I’m sure the resourceful and charitable Y folk would have found …
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Today I experienced one of those weird occurrences that have baffled me ever since I seriously got into fitness – call it the Bermuda Triangle of Exercise, if you will. Just like Amelia Earhart – but less heroic and revolutionary and without the rubber helmet (just what exactly was that supposed to protect you from …
I actually went to a NKOTB concert. I was 11. I went with my dad. Poor man. Some things just don’t make sense. Like The New Kids On The Block much-hyped comeback song “Summertime.” I mean the girl in the song is walking the beach in “flip flops, half shirt, short shorts, mini skirt.” Who …
Any Experiment that ends with old ladies running across the gym to my aid screaming, “Oh my dear, are you okay?!?!?” is my kind of Experiment. And the Kettlebell Experiment does not disappoint in this area. It was the renegade rows that did me in. Also called floor rows or plank rows, they’ve long been …
You swung them, pressed them, cleaned them, and loved on them – in a totally plantonic and non-creepy fashion – all last week. I mean, you did do Week 1 of the kettlebell Experiment, right?? It was a butt kicker. I thought I’d picked an “easy” beginner workout. Not so much. Anyhow, week two’s workout …
Photo Credit So many of you asked – and were so polite! – that there was no way I could not do a kettlebell experiment. If you are addicted to candy-colored balls of iron with little handles or were one of the fortunate recipients of all the kettlebell giveaways in the fitosphere (thanks TA for …
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ighNo, this isn’t me but kiddie kettlebells!! How cute are you? Because I am a good little consumerist, I have a wish list. I generally just pull it out for my birthday, Mother’s Day, Groundhog Day and all other Major holidays but today you get a sneak preview. My wish list reads like the annual …
