Hooters made news today by admitting what most of us already know: Despite claims that it is best known for its wings it turns out it is really selling breasts. And the rest of the well-shaped bodies of their famous scantily clad waitstaff. A Hooters in Detroit – does this city really need any more bad publicity? – recently put 20-year-old Cassandra Smith on probation for gaining weight.
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Filed Under (Mico Fitness) by Admin on 18-05-2010
My neighborhood New York Sports Club has gone heavy on the Smith Machines, while providing only 1 full power rack – something that quite honestly has peeved me off.
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…just in case you aren’t in the know…. 
Among all the other goals I initiated this year, I also, out of the clear blue, decided to go to school to pursue my first college degree in Information Technology. So, among everything else that’s going on, I now have classes, assignments and a GPA to worry about. Luckily for me, I feel ready to take it all on.This is my first time attending college
Bloody rampages can really get the blood pumping – in more ways than one. The hottest new fitness trend coming out of Japan (where else do all slightly demented yet meteoric trends come from these days?) is Samurai Training. The aerobics class, which is open to both genders but is almost exclusively dominated by women – and if that doesn’t tell you something about modern Japanese culture then I don’t know what does – promises to give you a good sweat while you cut a swath through the bad guys with your katana, the traditional weapon of choice for Japanese Samurai. Including Tom Cruise. I mean, he’s even got one in the movie poster and everyone knows movie posters are 100% historically accurate. (We’ll discuss later how I learned all my important historical facts from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and thereby humiliated myself during a family game of Trivial Pursuit by mispronouncing the famous philosopher as “So-crates.”)
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Suicide is in the air. Kazakh model Ruslana Korshunova dove to her death from her New York balcony. Canadian model Hayley Kohle leapt to a similar fate from a balcony in Milan. On the same day as Kohle, model Randy Johnston died of a drug overdose. Columbian model Lina Marulinda also chose a free fall from a balcony. But there are other ways to die in the air besides jumping. Models Lucy Gordon, Daul Kim and Ambrose Olsen all recently hanged themselves, Olsen just last month. And of course, the inimitable designer Alexander McQueen ended his fashion juggernaut along with himself by hanging last February. Death is not yet in the ground. Just a few days ago model Noemie Lenoir was found in a forest, nearly succumbed to an intentional drug overdose. Mercifully she is recovering. [Source]
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Think food is just for eating?? Not if you’re the hilarious MizFit!
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Filed Under (Mico Fitness) by Admin on 13-05-2010
CFB reader Anne M. sent in a question a couple of weeks ago concerning probiotics and belly fat.
Question: A co-worker mentioned to me that probiotics cuts belly fat. Is this true? I carry excess weight around my mid-section and was wondering if adding probiotic supplementation would help to get rid of the bulge. Anne M., San Francisco, CA
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Ok, none of us are angels, of course. Well, MOST of us are not angels, so I’m not judging the act perpetrated here. I’m remarking on the sheer and absolute stupidity of the act. And while I do know a bit about his history, I can’t begin to say that I have a clue what’s going on in LT’s life these days.However, I must say, how can he be THIS stupid?? First of all, I’m not sure why he’s having
The first thing you notice about The Anna Westin House in rural Minnesota, named for one of the saddest stories in eating disorder lore, is that you don’t notice it at all. Two light brick townhouses joined at the kitchen, it blends seamlessly in with the surrounding upper middle class neighborhood. From the green and white porch chairs to the single car in the driveway, nothing sets it apart. There is nothing to tell you that this is where girls who are actively courting death come to live. For many it is their last grab at life.
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Addiction. It’s a strong word but then I’m a strong girl – did about 500 reps of arm exercises (with humiliating 2-lb dumbbells) just today thanks to the ongoing Pilates Experiment – and I have an addictive personality. When I love something, I really really love it. Chocolate. My children. The movie Empire Records (remember when Renee Zellwegger was adorable?). Jelly Beans. Swing dancing. Exercise. Artichokes (which is a genetically inherited predilection, according to NPR some people are born with a gene that make artichokes taste delicious while everyone else only tastes bitter stabby vegetation. Yay, I finally won the genetic lottery in something!)
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