Exercise is often touted as the antidote to everything from depression to insomnia. “Take a brisk 10-minute walk on your lunch break and power through that glass ceiling!” magazines often advise (note to mags: What does one do about the sweat on one’s power suit? Because I’m not changing into my Lululemon and nikes for …
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Woman, to friend: I can’t believe you are going to have to buy her all new clothing! Friend: Well, I’m not going to obviously. I mean, she will just have to live with it. She tried on those clothes at the mall when we bought them over a month ago and they fit just fine …
My Fave Target Commercial. What? Like you don’t have one. I was recently accosted in Target. Really it was my own fault. Gym Buddy Allison and I were in the Sports Nutrition aisle looking for gels to take on our long runs. (And, let’s be honest, to look at those sassy running skirts they had …
This is Chris after his successful pec implant surgery. I get a lot of interesting e-mail from this website. Often it’s people trying to sell me various enhancement products for appendages I don’t even possess. Occasionally it is someone writing to correct me or further explain something to me, which I actually really do appreciate. …
Except my (pilfered) vest was way tougher than this wussy one! Yeah I eat nails for breakfast. When I say “sweating like Matthew Mcconaughey” I do not mean in the way that he does not wear deodorant. I’m a big fan of deodorant. In fact, with the way I sweat I should just roll Secret …
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Or you could just cut to the chase and do this. Whether you like group fitness or running solo through your neighborhood, the cool thing about exercising is all the opportunities you get to completely humiliate yourself. So it is with some trepidation I share my top ten ways to embarrass yourself whilst exercising. Because …
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For all you local readers or those of you who just enjoy my stories about Turbo Jennie, you will all be ecstatic to hear the great news: Jennie Berglund won the YMCA instructor of the year for all of Minnesota! This is a huge honor and one she truly deserves. You go, girl!! Paul’s Letter …
Here you go Fitarella! Gym sexiness at its best. You’ve seen the lists. Every few months or so it seems to be a blogger ritual to come out with a list of the most annoying people in the gym. And they’re pretty funny because, hey, who hasn’t been confronted with Grunting He-Man or Cell Phone …
Inhibitions are funny things. I have one friend who says she could never do a hip-hop dance class with me because she’s “not sexy like that” and yet has no problem asking the male cashier at Walgreens if the temporary tattoo she is buying would look better on her left ta-ta or her right. It’s …
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Nothing will make you choke on your morning oatmeal worse than logging on to CrossFit to discover the WOD is to run 15K (9.3 miles). Just as I was hacking up a whole raspberry that I’d inhaled, my phone rang – which is awesome, you should totally hear my ringtone, makes me dance every time! …
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