Giving New Meaning to Parenting

This is a silly post. I generally don’t discuss exercise or health issues here, but I found something that is a must share.
Magazines tout “Flat abs in less than 15 minutes” all the time. For the past 5 years I have been searching for the abs workout that would touch my love handles and the [...]

I am about to begin my second season of triathlons. I’ve been seriously training for them for the last couple of months, but even in my off time I am proud to say that I was still going into the gym. The other part of the training not surprisingly is watching what I [...]

My husband is from NYC. He moved there when he was 13 and lived there throughout high school, college, grad school and the first part of his working career. When I met his MIL she told me that she really liked that I was getting him to enjoy the outdoors. No, [...]

When I was in high school, I had to take step aerobics. While I did varsity swimming and fencing as well as synchronized swimming, there was just something about step aerobics that was hard for me to grasp. Perhaps I should say there was something about step that was hard for me to [...]

Don’t get me wrong, in years past I’ve done the whole New Year’s resolution of starting at the gym. I can hardly cast the first stone. That being said, I’ve been so caught up between the holidays and my son’s upcoming surgery that somehow New Year’s resolutions didn’t even make it on my [...]

About 4 years ago, I decided that a treadmill would be the answer to all my problems. Instead of wasting time commuting back and forth to the gym, I would simply go to the basement when my son was napping and workout. I would be healthy, lose weight, and leave the basement to attend to [...]

This past week, my triathlon training buddy and I were discussing how exercise was just not as much fun and exciting as it was this time last year.  We think it’s because this time last year, exercise was new to us!  Alright, we had worked out before, but since having kids the intensity of our [...]

My husband and I have been married for 7 years.  We dated for three years before we got married.  We each owned one stationary bike that we brought with us when we got married causing various people to wonder if we race each other on our stationary bikes in the basement.
My husband loved his stationary [...]

This past week I’ve read numerous posts describing bloggers’ feelings on fall.  Personally, I love it.  I love the cool crisp air.  I love wearing jeans and a fleece.  I love being able to run outside and not worry about the dreaded Runner’s Gut.  However, there are a couple of drawbacks.  The first is that [...]

When I decided to really focus on getting into shape about a year ago, I had a hard time finding media support.  Perhaps that sounds weird.  Surely there are more fitness magazines and exercise blogs out there than one person could read in a lifetime.  That’s not the problem I had.  It seemed like people [...]