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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There is much to love about this month’s Great Fitness Experiment with Rachel Cosgrove’s book – I think all the Gym Buddies and I have spent most of the last 6 weeks in various stages of toilet sore (yes, we do actually love that feeling) and I’m still losing inches – but the one thing …
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This can’t have ended well. And also, why is there a can of whipped cream?? photo credit: professional recreationalist “Chug, chug, chug!” “Just slam it!” and my personal fave: “I should have brought my beer helmet.” This month’s Great Fitness Experiment, continued from last month’s Rachel Cosgrove: The Female Body Breakthrough*, has the Gym Buddies …
Comic credit: Beartato (click to enlarge) “Don’t you do that!” Gym Buddy Krista commanded me this morning. “I saw your face when you read that number and don’t you do that!” I have a terrible poker face. (Not that I ever play poker; I don’t even know the rules. Which is probably why I incorrectly …
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Hmm, yes, the rolling pin was the tip-off that shenanigans were about to ensue. “Something bad was going to go down” indeed! “Hurts so good!” “Absolute must-do!” “MIRACULOUS!!” It was that last one that got me and not just because it turned exercise into a religious experience on par with seeing the Virgin Mary in …
Attention, please: We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming of All Crazy All The Time to bring you an important announcement. This is not a test, I repeat, not a test. TA-DA! Those, my friends, are the batteries out of my scale, a.k.a. my Weight Watchers branded silver shackles! At first I was going to do …
The question you should be asking is not why these men are running nearly naked in the snow but rather why are they wearing swimming caps… Nothing is as mythical in fitness lore as the Protein Shake. Whole websites are devoted to getting the most out your smoothie, entire books of workout-shake recipes have been …
Best running costume evah!! (Although it looks like a nightmare to run in) I’m often asked if I get bored of doing Experiments, if I ever tire of looking for new ones or if blogging them ever gets tedious. My answer: Nope, not ever and I looooovvveee it! Truth to be told, I’d be doing …
When our trainer said he was going to use the TRX to whip us into shape, I didn’t think he meant literally: What I love about this picture:1. ATTACK OF THE HUGE HAND! Run! Hide the children! 2. The fact that I am concentrating so hard – as evidenced by my durn-all-these-new-fangled-contraptions-and-their-tiny-buttons facial expression – …
Oh this? Just a one-handed bar push up. No biggie. Couple more reps and you can go back to hanging by your knees. Pansies. “Kettlebells…” That right there would have been enough to grab my attention but then he added, “IN THE POOL.” It was as if someone had shouted “Fox just un-cancelled Firefly!” at …
