Fitness

13.1 Miles: Part I

February 17, 2011

Disclaimer: This will be a two parter with part one, this right here, being all about how I am sure I am mildly insane for planning on running 13.1 miles. Part II will be about whether or not I survived the ordeal. Total cliffhanger. The first thing you should know is that I am a [...]

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Rocking Out. My Must Listen Gym Playlist.

January 19, 2011

For the majority of people, exercise isn’t something we look forward to. I personally despise it, even though I know I will feel good about myself after I’m done. Unfortunately, I am pre-diabetic, so I have to stay active so I can keep diabetes at bay. I’m not someone who can just go to the [...]

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The Gym. The Scariest Place on Earth. Or is it?

January 18, 2011

“I need to go to the gym. But I need to lose x-amount of weight first.” Have you ever said those words out loud or to yourself?  Do you feel that way now? Do you want to go to the gym or for a run, but think you’re too heavy/thin/weak/clumsy? If you answered yes to [...]

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109 Miles of Friction

November 23, 2010

Different points in my life have found me at varying levels of fitness, but the past few years I have been in a decline.  A slump. An extra ten pounds that weigh on my mind and my frame, and tennis shoes that go neglected for embarrassing periods of time. The last time I went to [...]

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Watch Your Back, Madonna

November 23, 2010

Exercising is not my favorite thing to do. For the last few years I’ve been getting by on a combination of being blessed with an ectomorph body type and parenting two danger-seeking continual motion machines. At almost eight-years-old, my kids aren’t providing me with the high intensity cardio they used to, at least not in [...]

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The Worst Workout Buddy Ever is My 60-year-old Mother

November 8, 2010

I need to get more exercise. I think I hate running. So I made the decision that I would take a spinning class because I loved riding my bike as a child. And I thought that my best friend, who teaches the darn class, would go easy on me. This is how it went… oh, [...]

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C25K and Me

November 3, 2010

Every year, in high school, I dreaded the time when we would have those horrendous physical fitness tests. We’d have to do push ups, sit ups, climb a knotted rope to the top, sprints, and we’d have to run a mile. I did o.k. on the sit ups, but that was it. The rest were [...]

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