Chris, a fellow FitFluential Ambassador and gifted videographer, was in town last week. He invited me to a gym where he was filming. Though it wasn’t far away, I’d never heard of it before.He told me many NFL and NBA stars train there and dropped names like Devin Hester and Luol Dang. Being a fair-weather [Read More]
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Does This Toast Your Oats?
After this morning’s spin class (endurance intervals in case you were wondering) I hit up my local Super Tarjay, which you may know by now, is one of my regular haunts. What was unusual, in fact I think it’s the first time ever, is I managed to purchase only one item: a container of organic [Read More]
Aspaeris Pivot Shorts Review/Giveaway
Because I tend to be a smidge injury prone, RICE (rest, ice, COMPRESSION, elevation) is pretty much a daily ritual for me. When the opportunity arose to try Aspaeris Pivot Shorts, I was all over it. I was a tad leery when they arrived, because they looked tiny. Would they really stretch enough to accommodate the [Read More]
Stress Less/Weigh-In Wednesday: Late Edition
I never quite got this post up yesterday. It was one of those insane days–you know the kind. I have so much to tell you about Notorious and the angry ham but I won’t bore you with that….yet. Stress Less: The Homestretch I vowed this year would be different. For once, I wouldn’t be the [Read More]
Birthday Week This and That and a Winner
Yep, smack in the middle of holiday chaos, yours truly is getting…even…Older! Actually I never minded as a kid because things were so festive and fun and my birthday often fell on class party day. But now? Well it beats the alternative I guess. Thing 2: “Mom who do you want on your birthday cake: [Read More]
Thoughts from Injured Reserve
There’s a mind-clearing technique for meditation where you imagine setting any thoughts that pop into your head on a leaf and let it float away from you. While I am not nearly as adept at meditation as I would like to be, I often use that leaf-in-the-water technique as a way of releasing negativity, worries [Read More]
Weekly Rewind: Injured Reserve
google images This week I just let everything rest. I jumped to no conclusions, made no judgements or plans pertaining to running and my current plight–if I can even call it that. The Chicago Bears, namely Jay Cutler, now there is plight. My coaching gig made it easy to shift the focus from me onto [Read More]
Channeling 22
Google Images After Monday’s yoga incident, I unwisely got out bright and early Tuesday morning to test the hamstring and assess the damage. I managed five leaden, pathetic miles, which, save for a few jolts from the hamstring when I stepped ‘wrong’, were painfree. However I may or may not have been gimping the last mile or [Read More]
Address the Stress
I swear those plates are glued on! Thank you all for your calming words of wisdom yesterday regarding the back-to-school onslaught of time demands. I think what wigged me out the most was the prospect of dropping the ball and forgetting something or someone somewhere and getting that dreaded phone call. I spent lots of [Read More]
Injured Week in Review
It’s been 11 days now since I had to ease up on a run due to my complaining hip. I’ve rested, I’ve iced, I’ve heated, I’ve tested it. Pretty much its still the same: a dull ache that I’m hesitant to run through. I’ve had to get a little creative to try to approximate marathon [Read More]
