Wacky Workout Wednesday: Lady Gaga Flashmob Edition! (Plus I’m one of Minnesota’s To 5 Fitness Blogs – vote for me!)

Our costumes for the Lady Gaga Flashmob taping. We both made our own hats. (To see the video, keep reading!) When people say they don’t like to workout, I usually answer, “That’s because you’ve never worked out with us!” Sometimes we have so much fun I forget I’m even working out until I feel the …

Gym Staple: LBP (little black pants) [Plus winners of the GFE Book 2 title contest! And a GIVEAWAY!]]

You like my pull-up tree? This is the spastic pull-up, you might not have seen it done before. There is frog kicking involved. Fashion mags will tell you that every woman needs a “little black dress” or LBD, a blank canvas if you will for all your sartorial choices both present and future. If you …

Doing Things I’m Totally Unqualified For [Plus: How To Find A Gym Buddy of Your Very Own]

Think fast: It’s two minutes until your favorite group fitness class is supposed to start, the room is packed with people ready to get their sweat on and all of a sudden you get the message: the teacher – a rockstar so beloved that people routinely drive a half hour past other perfectly decent gyms …

Do These Pants Make My Butt Look Big? A Day in Pictures [Giveaway!]

Props to Ice-T’s wife for answering that question with confidence! But what up with the shoes, Coco? I learned a long time ago to never ask my husband the infamous “Do I look fat in these pants?” question as the mere utterance makes him fake a heart attack. Which would be good entertainment, especially in …

The Problem With Fitness Hair (Giveaway!!)

Well, this might do the trick. But then I might have more problems than I started out with… (photo credit) Turbo Jennie calls it her splash zone. Not because she has any resemblance to Shamu – quite the opposite – but because anyone within a certain radius of her gets sprinkled with her sweat as …

Burn 1,000 Calories An Hour!

You’ve seen the workout program ads: in between shots of glistening, contracting abdominals and hyper smiling people who only sweat in socially acceptable places – your amped up cleavage if you are a woman, your shaved pecs if you are a man – comes the promise. What, you ask, can a DVD workout/exercise book/smiling B-list …

Bodily Functions & Fitness 101: Gaseous Emissions

I did yoga this morning. Per usual, it was a sweaty-yet-relaxing good time and I enjoyed myself immensely (fave part: the stares when I did my headstand inversion, pregnant belly and all). But there was one part at the end that got a little awkward. It’s called Happy Baby Pose:It ought to be called Embarrassing …

Assault: On Causing Pain

Yeah, I look all innocent here, punching BOB. It is an oft-repeated axiom that opposites attract. This is not true. At least not when it comes to people. Rather, as any social psychologist will tell you, like attracts like. I know that many people will protest “but my significant other is my exact opposite!” This …