Selfie Underboob and Yoga Underbutt: The Newest (and Most Impractical) Fitness Fashion Trends

Crop tops are making a comeback, ladies! Especially when it comes to fitness. The off-the-shoulder 80’s variety has been happening for a few years and “tasteful midriff” has been all over red carpets this past year but now the shrunken 90’s belly-baring style we all remember from our Gwen Stefani posters is back big time …

The New Age of Old Models: Is Aging Finally Losing it’s “Ugly” Stigma in Fashion [Or is grey hair just the new fedora?]

Sleek hair, impeccable styling, perfect makeup – even though everything about her screamed model I still couldn’t believe my eyes. And yet there she was staring right back at me from a full-page glossy photo fashion spread for The Row, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s high-end fashion line. The lovely 65-year-old Linda Rodin even had the …

Are Cute Yoga Toes A Must For A Good Yoga Pose? [The rebellion against the “yoga look” has begun!]

 See, these ladies love working out in footed jammies! And so can you! “Cute pedi!,” my neighbor said. “Thanks! Jelly Bean and I got bored the other day and we painted our nails.” (Which she immediately peeled off even though I’d just spent half an hour hunched over fingernails the size of rabbit pellets. Kids.) …

The Worst T-Shirt I’ve Ever Seen at the Gym [Plus: The most honest – and hilarious – fitness tees!]

Truth: I will watch ANY show with dancing in it. I don’t care how spurious the plot, how pedantic the dialog, how vacuous the characters. I love watching people dance. And these girls are aMAYzing ballet dancers. The ballerinas started it. There I was watching my guilty pleasure Breaking Pointe – it’s basically the Real Housewives …

Would You Wear These Crazy New “Springblade” Running Shoes? [All The Rules of Buying Athletic Shoes. And How I Break Them]

Have you seen these?! Adidas unveiled their new “springblade” running shoes this week and I’m kind of dying to try* them. From my highly (non)scientific analysis, they seem to be based on the same principle behind the carbon fiber “blade” prosthetics used by Oscar Pistorious in the Olympics. And I remember a big hullabaloo at …

Does “Flattering” Always Have to Mean “Makes You Look Skinny”? My Great Pants Experiment. [$100 Giveaway!]

 This pic is from my Great CrossFit Experiment a few years ago and… I almost didn’t post it at the time because I was embarrassed by my “big quads”. Now I’m just embarrassed that there’s no weight on the bar and my wrists are so bent! (In my defense, we were using un-weighted bars to …

Charity “Challenges” Women to Be “Empowered” by Working Out Shirtless [Would you do it?]

  I dunno Lane Bryant, I just don’t think our relationship is to that level yet where I tell you which strange fruit my girls most resemble. (Image Source) Tutus, spangly leotards, glittery leggings, neon arm warmers and even a cape and motorcycle helmet (I was a human cannonball for our most recent TurboKick circus-themed …

Brace Yourselves Ladies: The Girdle is Making a Comeback… Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Eating, sitting and pooping are generally considered life skills and yet I spent a portion of today – Easter Sunday, one of the High Food Holidays, no less – unable to do any of the above. The problem started, as it often does with me, with a mystery package dropped on my doorstep by the …

Would You Wear a Race Shirt For a Race You Didn’t Run? [Am I a Fraud or Just Frugal?]

  From DonkeyTs.com Sitting at the gym, minding everybody’s business but my own, I got into a conversation about a recent road race. I didn’t run it but several of the Gym Buddies did and as everyone knows, one of the best parts of running a race is getting to swagger around in your race …

Attack of the Killer Shoes: Women everywhere are being maimed by their footwear [Is the solution found in the kiddie aisle?]

Sarah Jessica Parker is the next step in evolution. Girlfriend recently confessed in an interview that her secret power is creating new bones. Like, inside herself and not in the form of a baby, dermoid cyst or alien experimentation! How’d did she get this magical talent? By murdering her feet with high heels. Naturally. Anyone …