The "Eff" Word …

Filed Under (Mico Fitness) by Admin on 29-01-2010

In case you’re wondering, “eff” is for “effort” and to those of you who like to moan and groan about how overweight and out of shape you may be, please take a gander at my friend Mike’s blog posting today and ask yourself …

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Putting the Person Back in Online Personal Training [Experiment Results]

Filed Under (Equipment Experiments) by Admin on 29-01-2010


In an effort to keep their large geriatric clientele happy, my YMCA has recently added a floor show for their morning entertainment. A show so gripping that it even tops Ellen. (Note: not really. Nobody can top Ellen. I just wanted to work that in here somehow to tell you to check out MizFit’s hilarious quest to get herself on The Ellen Show. If this doesn’t do the trick, I don’t know what will!) In a word: It’s us.

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Does Breast Feeding Help You Lose Weight?

Filed Under (Equipment Experiments) by Admin on 28-01-2010


Salma Hayek has an amazing rack – and I’m not talking about her ability to fill a sweater, er, movie role. They’re amazing because of their ability to feed a baby. It’s the real secret in Victoria’s Secret – breasts are not just fun bags. They also squirt milk. Which I suppose could also be considered fun in some circles. Hey, I don’t know what you do with your Friday nights.

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Keep On Truckin’

Filed Under (Mico Fitness) by Admin on 27-01-2010

Maybe I’m aging myself, but the phrase “keep on truckin’” was to my childhood what Nike’s iconic “just do it” was to the 1980s.

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The Haitian Earthquake, Kourtney Kardashian’s Baby Weight and Me

Filed Under (Equipment Experiments) by Admin on 27-01-2010

The little Haitian boy who greeted rescuers [after being trapped for 8 days] with a beaming grin as they freed him from a huge pile of rubble said yesterday, “I smiled because I was free — I smiled because I was alive.” Source.

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Special Notice: Managing Weight After Breast Cancer

Filed Under (Mico Fitness) by Admin on 26-01-2010

To any women living in the Philadelphia, PA area, join Living Beyond Breast Cancer for their next free networking meeting, Managing Weight After Breast Cancer at the Philadelphia Marriott West in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.

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Total Ab Burnout in 6 Moves (or less!) [Mini-Experiment]

Filed Under (Equipment Experiments) by Admin on 26-01-2010


When FitJerk posted his “Jerkdominal Blast” on Twitter, I might have just smiled remembering that my abs are only 2 months post baby expelling and not exactly up to anything involving blasts – or jerks for that matter – except that he said the magic word. No, not “please.” He said challenge. I cannot resist a challenge, a fault that has put me into more than one regrettable situation (cliff dancing anyone?). Thankfully many of you share the same flaw and quite a few of you jumped in too:

So this morning found two of my Gym Buddies – the long suffering Allison and Krista – and I ready to make our abs so sore we wouldn’t dare find anything humorous for at least a week. After doing Lindsey’s hour-long Killer Barf Circuits in just 45 minutes which is why we are so red-faced and smelly in the above pic (it’s a scratch-n-sniff!), we got down to work.

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Nicole’s Journey: Part 3

Filed Under (Mico Fitness) by Admin on 25-01-2010

Start date: 12/27/2009
Starting weight: 240 lbs
Current weight: 242 lbs

Hi everyone. I don’t have much to share this week. In all honesty, the results have been extremely frustrating but Susan is helping me work through that and shake things up a bit with my caloric intake and exercise in hopes to confuse my body into cooperation!

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Do You Have "Time Sickness"?

Filed Under (Equipment Experiments) by Admin on 25-01-2010

courtesy of the awesome Natalie Dee

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Join me for a Mini Experiment? Plus: Spam Spam Everywhere and Contest Winner!]

Filed Under (Equipment Experiments) by Admin on 23-01-2010

Those of you watching me stumble around like a newborn colt on Twitter – yeah, I’m that bad – will already know about this but FitJerk threw down an ab-tastic challenge that I couldn’t resist! He posted his most killer ab workout and the Gym Buddies and I are going to give it a whirl (after finishing Lindsey’s workout of course!) on Monday. (Surprise, Gym Buddies!!) Anyone want to join in the pain fest? If you do it, make sure and send me an e-mail or tweet letting me know how it goes for you!

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