Right after “Are you having twins?” (um, NO but thanks for making me feel huge) the single most frequently asked question I get in regards to my pregnancy is “How do I do ab work while pregnant?” I’ve already busted the myth that pregnant women shouldn’t do ab work but now it’s time for more …
Want more drunk yoga poses? See fun tuna! Breathing. It’s your basic bodily function, right? So easy even newborns can do it? Not me, apparently. Oh sure, I managed to survive to adulthood despite, when I was 7, being 100% sure that I was going to stop breathing in my sleep but things got trickier …
Wow, never has one of my posts been so misread. I feel compelled to add a disclaimer to precede the following post. Warning: the post directly after this one is satire. I realize that the fault with the misunderstanding is entirely mine, being the writer and obviously missing the mark with my audience. I considered …
DiPlease read the preceding disclaimer first. Read the following at your own risk: “Outside of gastric bypass surgery, no system has ever produced any significant long-term weight loss. None. “ So says Megan McArdle, channeling Paul Campos and Gina Kolata, in her article “Thining Thin” in The Atlantic Monthly. She adds, “Every single study which …
{Disclaimer: The following post discusses my sexual assault. No graphic details are mentioned.} Regret. They say it is the saddest word in the English language. In fact, I’ve heard many a person say their goal is to “live without regrets.” (Winner of the irony award is “Hero” Hayden Paniettiere. She got this phrase tattooed in …
More comic genius from N8! In one of the funniest stories to come out of Hollywood recently, Heidi Klum reportedly sent Victoria “Skeleton” Beckham a dozen of the decadent Sprinkles cupcakes for her birthday. It gets better: The attached note added that a dozen would be coming every Friday for the rest of the year. …
This comic is the first in a series drawn by professional comic and GFE reader N8 (sound it out) especially for The Great Fitness Experiment! I can’t tell you how excited it makes me that I have my own illustrator – I’d put it on my business card if I had any. Look for more …
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(Image unavailable to do extreme prejudice. I searched for an hour and couldn’t find any unoffensive pictures to appropriately illustrate this story. Which is a story in and of itself.) In one of the saddest examples that perverts will use anything to justify their crimes, a pastor (a pastor!) recently explained that the reason he …
It’s inevitable – go to any starting line, fitness class or gym and you’ll find people in various stages of stretching. Almost always, people are stretching before their exercise. It’s what we were all taught by our elementary P.E. teachers, right? You gotta warm up those muscles so you don’t pull something! While my elementary …
“It’s official. You are the whitest person on the planet,” Gym Buddy Dennis said to me after we finished Turbo Jennie’s annual outdoor birthday TurboKick extravaganza tonight (seriously, it’s her birthday and she brings us treats!). As I stood there, sweating so profusely in the near-90 degree weather that my shorts looked as if I’d …
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