Sarah Tieck! She writes, “I think my big scale issue happens when I go for the weekly WW weigh in … it is so hard to face that scale each week and have the number recorded.” So hopefully this scale will help take some of the fear out of your weekly weigh-in. Drop me a …
Now you and your significant other have one more thing to bond over whilst roasting chestnuts over your faux fire and wearing matching Burberry slippers this season: new research has found that seeing pictures of beautiful models actually make the men folk feel badly about themselves, just like it does to us women! Porn purveyors …
Did you know that some women lead perfectly happy and healthy lives without ever stepping on a scale? There are women out there who don’t even know what they weigh! If you are one of those women, as I’m sure some of you are, then you will spend the rest of this post shaking your …
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My YMCA has been doing some much-needed renovations. The upside is that we now have a shiny new aerobics studio, expanded childcare and a new gym floor that has made more than a few basketball players fall to their knees and weep with joy. The downside, besides that the whole place is drenched in nursing-home …
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Recently my friend N joined a gym. As part of his new gym experience, he got a meet-n-greet with a personal trainer. This gym, being of the swanky variety, offered him something better than a New Gym Smell car freshener. (No, I’ve never heard of those being offered but can you imagine how motivating that …
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Is (chosen via a random number generator)….. M!Apparently he/she has bypassed even the single name and just skipped Prince-style to a letter. Also his/her comment was hilarious: The Sprinter’s Start!Can I pretend I’m launching into some sort of Cirque de Soleil act while doing it?Or Cirque de Sore Legs?What do you think the exercise is …
I got a fabulous compliment the other day. My friend R, a hilarious Brazilian woman that can Samba like nobody’s business, pulled me aside after Turbokick. “I have to tell you something. Did you see those ladies in the back in Zumba the other night? Well, they wanted to know who you were because they …
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Check out my guest post on Gym Rage over at Cranky Fitness today!
At first glance, a new study about kids’ television viewing habits seems rather encouraging. A group of 1,055 3-12 year-olds was shown three different pictures of a popular female cartoon character, Bibi Blocksburg (the apparent love-child of Mickey Mouse in his Sorcerer’s Apprentice days and Caillou the inexplicably bald-headed Canadian preschooler): The pictures were set …
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Photo Credit: Fail Blog You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that diet pills don’t work. If they did, we’d all look like Carmen Electra and spend our nights partying away with the Zantrex dancers. And yet they sell. So who’s buying? Women apparently. The other day I went to GNC to …
