Intel & Blogher chose the winner for this promotion and it was comment # 482 (out of over 800!): OriginalDramaMama who wrote: I am a multi-tasking maven, so any way I can get more done in more places FASTER is made of awesome! I woul love to check out the turbo feature 🙂 Please e-mail …
This year I resolve to not chase any lions. 3 days down, so far so good! How much do I love this time of year? The lack of daylight, the 4-foot-high snowdrifts, the post-holiday let down illustrated by the pile of already discarded Christmas presents that I keep tripping over (little ingrates!). Oh that’s right, …
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Having just finished Day 1 of our Fitness Challenge Experiment with Lindsey, the Gym Buddies and I all got our body fat percentage tested so we’d have our official results from November and December’s Rachel Cosgrove Experiment. I posted last night about my results from it but these new numbers were so stunning I had …
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Click picture to enlarge. I wish I had a source for this, it’s hilarious! Fragile. Tiny. Vulnerable. Weak. I’ll admit it: I liked being those things. For a long time (most of my life?), I enjoyed people grabbing my arm and cooing “Oh, I’ve never seen such a tiny wrist!” I liked that men got …
Read more “The Beauty of Strong Women [Rachel Cosgrove Experiment Results are in!]”
Proof that even the skinniest girl will look bloated if she stands wrong. And this is how 80% of Star magazine’s headlines are born… Increased muscle growth, faster recovery, increased endurance, less body fat, reversal of the beginning stages of heart failure and greater mental acuity (about a 10 point increase in IQ!) are just …
Read more “Creatine Supplementing for Women: The Good, The Bad and The Bloated”
I’m chilling with the blog posts this week as I gear up for all the great stuff I have lined up for you guys in 2011. (In my new spare time I’ve altered/refit/sewn three vintage dresses plus crafted myself a new skirt out of an old maternity dress OH YES! Take that shopping addiction! I …
Read more “PLAYout not Workout* [Working out should be fun, by golly!]”
Don’t forget: if you want in on the January GFE, e-mail Lindsey at Lindsey@leanbodieshf.com with “GFE team entry” in the subject line. She will randomly select 5 of you for a free slot on the team. Anyone else who wants to join the Fit Blogger Competition can pay $30. For that price you get two …
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Happy Holidays from all of us here at The Great Fitness Experiment! You guys are what makes doing this fun and I am so grateful to every single one of you! And I owe a HUGE thank you to all my Gym Buddies for putting up with me, talking me down and making me laugh …
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Willow Tree “Guardian“ “Noun: The evacuation of a dead child or organism.” Stillbirth. No warning at all, there it was right between “veterinarian: a person who practices medicine or surgery on animals” and “blunderbuss: a short musket of wide bore used for shooting at close range” as if dead babies are as pedestrian as ailing …
Read more “What I Mean When I Say I Have 5 Children [Talking about the loss of a baby]”
Boot camp at our Y is the personal trainers’ class to try out every crazy, painful and downright evil move they don’t dare use on their paying customers. Case in point: The Trainer Pull. Trainer Riley squats on two sliding discs, hands me two resistance bands like reins and then has me pull him up …
Read more “Donkey Kicks: Boot Camp Move to Try Today! [Plus Bonus Circus Trick!]”
