Is Flashdance! Puzzled? Women’s Health this month has a weight-training tip I’d never heard before (and frankly, I thought I’d heard them all): Do 35-40 seconds of intense cardio in between each weight set and according to the (2-line blurb) study, this will reduce soreness significantly. After four weeks of doing this, supposedly participants had …
Beauty is pain. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something. I realize that die-hard Princess Bride fans are firing up their e-mails at this very second to correct my misquote but I still think it applies here. Beauty is a highly prized commodity in our society and therefore we will go to great lengths …
This Experiment Was Too ColdMy friend B is a real life Wonder Woman. Girl has five kids (stranger: “Are those ALL yours?” B: “No, I picked up a couple extra because going to the grocery store with five toddlers is FUN.”) and she runs a tight ship. Her house runs like the Von Trapps’ minus …
All I can say is that I hope the participants of this study got paid a lot of money. The latest piece of darned-if-you-do-darned-if-you-don’t research comes from the University of Michigan. Researchers there decided to look at the workings of the hormone leptin, the substance that supposedly tells you when you are full and to …
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“I like big butts and I cannot lie. No otha brotha can deny. That when a girl walks in with an itty-bitty waist and round thing in your face you get…” to the radio and change the channel as fast as you can. That is if you’re me. I hate that song. But Reader M …
Doing all the experimenting that I do and being challenged in the common sense department like I am, when Chris asked me if there was anything I’d done where I’d thought “I immediately regret this decision” my reply was, “how much time do you have?” My Life Is One Long Series of Embarrassing StoriesStarting way …
Honest Tuesdays, Take TwoAmidst my pondering (a.k.a. begging people more knowledgeable than I am to tell me what to do) on why it is so difficult for me to take a rest, the venerable MizFit asked me “First, why do you exercise?” It hadn’t even occurred to me to consider that I’d be doing it …
It’s been five days since I set foot in a gym. Five days since I broke out in anything but a nervous sweat. Five days without having my trusty heart rate monitor tucked under the girls like the worst push-up bra ever. Okay, so that last one is really kind of nice. Anyhow, in honor …
And you thought the demonization of white bread was purely metaphorical… Experiencing the majority of my teen years during the ’90s meant a lot of things. First there was Grunge. Not only was it by far the best clothing trend ever – can’t beat dumpster diving for economy and you never had to do laundry, …
The waiver she had signed at the beginning of the experiment included the phrase “this study may involve deception.” That should have been her first clue (seriously, if you ever participate in a study of any kind, definitely look for that one). But she was too angry to listen as I tried to point out …
