Lululemon founder explains the problem with falling apart yoga pants: Your body. And seatbelts. [Dear Chipper, Thanks For Helping Me Quit Lululemon!]

 Which is why you should just strive to be unhappy. There’s a reason “shooting the moon” is a winning hand. Duh. More wise (ahem) words from Lululemon below. Dear Chip Wilson, Can I call you Chipper? ‘Cause I really want to. It sounds so cute – reminds me of Chipmunks. And wood chippers. But not …

The Exercise Paradox: The Trade-Off Between Performance And Aging [New Research! Plus the top 5 most annoying running partners!]

 Stylin’ at the start line! Ever had a super annoying running partner*? There’s The Perma-Injured – the person who always has something wrong with him/her, whether it be fallen arches or a sore knee or a blocked aura or whatever. New day, new injury. Then there’s The Whiner – the one who complains about the weather, his …

“I Like A Girl Who Eats” [When is a hamburger not a hamburger? When I’m arguing with it.]

“Oh it’s not about the hamburger, buddy! Don’t you “just hamburger” me! That is just a hamburger like Elmo is just a furry toy with a stick up its butt! These things, they mean… other things! (And lead to lawsuits, in the case of Elmo.)” My breathing got faster as my hands tightened into fists. …

How to Deal With Exercise Guilt: Yours, Mine and Ours

Game night at our house always opens up some interesting conversation. (“Mommy? Why is there a candlestick in Clue? How do you kill someone with a candlestick?!) And tonight was no exception. We were playing “Whoonuu?” with some friends and in case you’ve never experienced the tiddlywink awesomeness of it all, the point of the …

Dear Athletic Clothing Companies: How to make non-ridiculous fitness clothes

Today I came across a picture in a magazine of a model wearing these pants: All I could think was Holy Menstrual Explosion! Aren’t white pants with red splotches all over the crotch a woman’s worst nightmare? The funny part is that they were designed by fellow possessor-of-lady-bits Stella McCartney so we can’t chalk it …

How to Teach Girls How Not to Get Raped

  If you haven’t seen this yet, it’s pretty awesome. Eyes! EYES! Nose! NOSE! Ears! EARS!  The roar of teenage girls filled the small room at my church last night as we ended our seminar on self-defense. I wish I could say that their roar was defiant, strong, a unified cacophony of empowered (pre) women. …

The Olympics: Celebration of Body Diversity or Bastion of Body Snark?

From the oddly choreographed Dawn of the Industrial Age dance number (as interpreted by mimes) to the Spice Girls reunion, complete with Posh robot (why on earth is she still singing? Stick with designing absolutely adorable dresses!) and all the leaps, be-grilled Lochtes, butt smacks, Gold-Medal Gabbys, Usain Bolt hilarity and scandals in between (you …

Why We Can No Longer Afford to Treat Gym As a Throwaway Class

“Sport in school is the worst thing you can possibly inflict on children, particularly girls who are going through puberty and are necessarily self-conscious, often in pain and often vulnerable. Rather than being promoted as life-enhancing, health-giving and a fun way of giving you a fantastic body, sport is turned by school, and the frankly pervy …

Irishman Kicks Rihanna Out of His Field & Reignites the Sexy-Jealousy Debate [When your body is your body of work]

 image courtesy of the BBC On Monday a farmer in Northern Ireland, upon meeting the international pop star Rihanna, did what I imagine very few red-blooded men would: he publicly admitted to not knowing who Rihanna is. Okay, that’s true, but my great uncles would probably all say the same. No, his real shocker was …