Decoding Hand Signals in the Gym

Filed Under (Equipment Experiments) by Admin on 30-11-2009

This is the universal symbol for “your yoga teacher is a perv.”

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OMG, Why Did I Even Start????

Filed Under (Fitness Confessions) by Admin on 26-11-2009

This is one of those cases of "never shoulda bought it in the first place". What was I thinking??? I am now addicted to these tasty little things!Strawberry and cream cheese Toaster Strudel!! I’ve been passing my eyes right over this box and that cheeky little fellow Pop ‘n’ Fresh for years, and never felt the urge to buy it. But on a whim, I decided to pick them up after thinking how good it

My Unthankful Thanksgiving

Filed Under (Equipment Experiments) by Admin on 26-11-2009


I’ll admit I wasn’t feeling the gratitude today. (Which is okay, right? I mean I still have a few hours left to procrastinate my character improvement.) This morning found me walking the track at the gym, my baby in a front carrier and nothing to entertain me except my mp3 player… which was dead. So basically I spent an hour walking in small circles and muttering to myself like a crazy person, nary a Gym Buddy in sight. That last bit was the real problem. See, all the Gym Buddies were absent this morning because they were saving up their childcare hours so they could come to the big Turbo holiday sweatfest tonight. The one I can’t attend because a) my baby is too young to go in the childcare and the gym management frowns on babies in kickboxing classes and b) my body isn’t healed up enough yet to handle it.

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Trusting Your Hunger Vs. Exercising Willpower

Filed Under (Equipment Experiments) by Admin on 25-11-2009


These days, thanks to my transformation from walking womb to 24/7 milk bar, I am a girl with a hefty appetite. They say that nursing requires even more calories than pregnancy and I believe it. I’m not counting calories (yay!) but just guessing from the huge amounts of food I consume every few hours I’d say it’s a lot. Like NFL linebacker a lot.

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Why Have We Become So Violent?

Filed Under (Fitness Confessions) by Admin on 24-11-2009

So, I’m reading yesterday about how one man stabbed this other man on the train over a subway seat, and this is just one amongst the slew of stories detailing one form of human on human violence that we are informed of each week. Is it me, or are these stories becoming far more frequent and also more mind numbingly brutal as time goes on?Stories about people shooting up their old places of

The Cure for Exercise Headaches [Help a Reader Out]

Filed Under (Equipment Experiments) by Admin on 24-11-2009

If this is how you hydrate, then I think we found the problem…

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The Happiest Sadness: On having a baby after losing one

Filed Under (Equipment Experiments) by Admin on 23-11-2009


Have you ever been afraid that by loving someone so much you will lose them, simply because the universe hates a happy ending? It’s a disturbing, paranoid and not really rational thought but there’s a reason that the axiom, “It is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all” exists. Loving someone can be scary. Because losing that someone is even scarier.

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Another Cancer Scare

Filed Under (Fitness Confessions) by Admin on 20-11-2009

Hey, everyone. I had an emergency in my family, and haven’t had the time to be here.Yet another member of my family was struck with cancer, and this time it was my brother. I can’t tell you how distressing this has been.His wife kept telling him to go and get a checkup, and he finally did. Well, one finding led to another, and then he was advised to get a colonoscopy because they suspected

They Like Me! They Really Like Me!!

Filed Under (Mico Fitness) by Admin on 20-11-2009

I’m honored that my good blogger friend, Fred, has included me in such an auspicious list of his favorite blogs.

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Demi Moore: Did W Mag Photoshop Her or Not?

Filed Under (Equipment Experiments) by Admin on 20-11-2009

The laughter over the Ralph Lauren model debacle hadn’t even died down when it appeared earlier this week that the fashion industry had repeated its affront to anatomical correctness again but this time on the new cover of W magazine featuring Demi Moore.

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