When a Gym Buddy sent this to me: I’ll admit my first reaction was to be a bit flattered. Even if they didn’t mean me in particular, all the ladies I work out with (and by that I mean pretty much every girl in the gym at the same time) are hawt mamas. But then, …
Daria and I model our sandbags. Hers is leaking black coal dust down her back and yet she’s still smiling. What a trouper! Ever had your butt handed to you by a piece of fitness equipment? Well I sure did. Our very first day of the Sandbag Experiment ended with sandbag: 20, Charlotte: 0. One …
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I salute the master of the no-slip hair clip! Do you think that wire leads to a battery pack? What is the one thing you absolutely cannot workout without? Working out as long as I have and in as many different situations as I have (and losing as many brain cells as I have), I …
Tuesday was a very special day here at the Great Fitness Experiment. I got to do my second-ever blogger meet up! (Kara of Mama Sweat was my first.) Katie of Making Food and Stuff was up here in the arctic wasteland visiting family and she generously (naively?) offered to come do a workout with the …
Read more “The Power of a Good Gym Buddy (Or 10) [How do you workout – alone or in a group?]”
Tuesday was a very special day here at the Great Fitness Experiment. I got to do my second-ever blogger meet up! (Kara of Mama Sweat was my first.) Katie of Making Food and Stuff was up here in the arctic wasteland visiting family and she generously (naively?) offered to come do a workout with the …
Read more “The Power of a Good Gym Buddy (Or 10) [How do you workout – alone or in a group?]”
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!]”
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 …
Read more “Happy Holidays From The Gym Buddies! [And January’s Great Fitness Experiment]”
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!]”
“Excuse me but I think you are having a wardrobe malfunction.” Where’s Justin Timberlake when you need him?! “Excuse me” can be a really loaded phrase in the gym. Sometimes it’s only someone trying to squeeze by you to get to the dumbbell rack but quite often it’s followed by something bizarre, incongruous, hilarious or …
Read more “How To Deal With Unsolicited Health and Fitness Advice”
Pre-race, post-potty – the high point of my day. The End: Shaking, incoherent, sobbing, vomiting and laying under all my blankets still in my sweat-soaked racing clothes: This was how my kids found mommy yesterday. The Beginning: “Sure, give me some of your pills!” Famous. Last. Words. That pretty much sums it up. But if …
