So much of the fitness and health writing out there is so dry you practically have to hydrate after you read it. I think it’s time we injected some humor into the genre.
I often like to mock the latest and lamest fitness crazes (underwater spin bike yoga!) but when you read about fitness, you can kinda see why people are looking for something new. Basically, there are a few things that are pretty much tried and true and known and effective, and we see this information again [...]
Nice, um, shoulder.On Tuesdays I teach four bootcamp classes, then go to boxing class. I have started to suspect that somehow the boxing is serving as penance for my sins in bootcamp, or maybe just some fast-acting fitness karma. How so? Well, take today for example. Some of my folks in classes reported that I [...]
Ooops. I, um, went on vacation last weekend up until yesterday and forgot to post that I was going. Sorry to have the tumbleweeds blow through FF for a full week, but hey, maybe I can make it up to you somehow? Think on it.
So I went to Joshua Tree, where the lizards roam free [...]
The whole idea from yesterday that girls may not be strengthening their legs because they are torn between wanting to play a sport and yet look like they don’t (i.e. be un-muscled and not “thick”) made me totally sad. How lame that girls have to feel the pressure to have bodies that are skinny [...]
Nature intended her for team sports, yo.
So all day yesterday people talked to me about the NY Times magazine thang on girls and sports injuries. I wrote about it last night, but there’s oh so much more to be said, especially when you start to delve into the controversial responses to the article. One of [...]
Show of hands who read the article on girl injuries in sports in the Sunday New York Times magazine? This alone is yikes-worthy: Some experts believe that in sports that both sexes play, girls rupture their A.C.L.s (i.e. blow out their knees) at rates as high as five times that of boys. Girls are also [...]
Just yesterday I was thinking, “What in the hell should I write about for FF?” And then, lo and behold, today I hurt my foot. Only twenty minutes into my kickboxing workout. Lucky, lucky me, I have material now!
Apparently I kicked something hard, like an elbow or what-have-you, with my foot. Again. You are supposed [...]
After my pull ups tonight, I really needed these pull ups.This one will be a shorty because I can barely type. “Why?” you ask? Oh, I dunno, maybe it’s because my forearms are rocks and my hands are barely functional because the workout tonight included A MILLION PULL-UPS. Or 48. In sets of 12. In [...]
Occasionally someone will ask me if I am learning kickboxing for self-defense purposes. The best answer I can think of is that it’s the same as me practicing weightlifting in case I have to help someone move a couch. In other words, it is possible I’ll someday use it for that, but it’s not what [...]
Here’s a very typical conversation between me and many of the lovely people in my life. Me: “Aw fuck, my shins hurt/ I have a cold/ my head is pounding/ my ass is sore from god-knows-what…no, not like that, I mean the glute muscles.” People in my life: (stifling a yawn) “Did you take anything [...]
