Craggy Pits: The #1 Downside to Lifting Weights [All I want for Christmas is laser hair removal]

This will be my next option. As I get older I’ll just call it Bride of Frankenstein. Weight lifting builds bone density. Weight lifting increases strength and power. Weight lifting burns fat all day long. Weight lifting makes you look tougher than Chuck Norris at Comic Con. Oh sure, everyone always talks about the benefits …

The Strength Hack You Need to Try: New Research Gives Everyone Whiplash, Says Doing One Set of Weights May Be Better Than Three [What’s your go-to strength workout?]

All bodybuilders go to heaven… I actually found this painting at a thrift store. I can’t decide which I love more: the mullet or the muscles. (Or the 3.95 price tag!) Either way this has got to be the most terrifying guardian angel ever. Let’s just get this out of the way right now: You …

What Do You Say When A Girl Tells You She Doesn’t Want to Lift Weights Because She Doesn’t Want to Be Bulky? [Help a reader out!]

 From the inimitable Jen Sinkler Being a woman who lifts weights automatically makes you open to weird comments (as does being a mom of “a lot” of kids) and over the last decade (!!!) of hoisting iron, I’ve got more than my fair share. Here are some of my personal favorites: “Are you a lady …

The Untimely End of The Great Rachel Cosgrove Fitness Experiment (II) [lighter weights/high reps vs heavier weights/low reps?]

Someone stole my book. Right off the dumbbell rack on the weight floor where I’d left it propped open with a 2-pounder. (Because what else do you do with a 2-lb dumbbell? Use it to crack pecans? Roll out dough? Do that weird forearm exercise where you curl it backwards??) In all my years of …

The Great Rachel Cosgrove Fitness Experiment II [Yep, she’s back with a brand new rap! And I Don’t Quite Know What to Think]

My girl Rachel Cosgrove – author of The Female Body Breakthrough which was one of my top 3 favorite Great Fitness Experiments ever – is back with her hotly anticipated follow-up book. And because she was kind enough to send me a review copy the Gym Buddies and I have been testing it out. We’ve been lifting. …

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

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 …

Ryan Seacrest Afraid of Girlfriend Julianne Hough’s Muscles? [What is it exactly that makes strong women scary?]

Now THIS is what I call scary muscles. (Don’t worry, it’s only a tattoo) It was a bevy of blonds recently when dark blond Ryan Seacrest sat down with platinum blond Ellen Degeneres (married to honey blond Portia di Rossi) to talk about… something… and the conversation turned to his golden blond girlfriend, Julianne Hough. …

Your Health Teacher Was Right: Boys and Girls ARE Different, Even at Exercise [Or: Why I Still Suck at Pull-Ups]

Even babies do better pull-ups than I do! (And look way cuter doing them too! Awww!) This past Monday found New Gym Buddy Kari (everyone say “Hi Kari!”), trying her best to follow my weird directions, standing on a weight bench and doing jumping pull-ups, which if you’ve ever tried them, can be plenty hard. …

Giant Veins and Other Unintended Side Effects of Exercise [Reader Question]

Neck veins: All the cool kids are wearing them these days! I’m so fashion forward! Image Source Pop quiz: What do Madonna, Angelina Jolie, me and a random dude off the Internet all have in common? No it’s not that we all have “Call Me Maybe” stuck in our heads. (Okay, that could possibly be …