At the risk of resembling the spring bloom on the bottom right in the excellent botanical guide by Dylan Meconis pictured above, I want to talk a little about how yoga is helping my writing. I take yin yoga classes. Someone … Keep reading
Category Archives: Fitness
Gym wisdom
One of the guys at the gym has Clarke Peters-level gravitas. So for purposes of this post, I’m gonna just call him Lester. Lester’s a trainer. And although I am not officially being trained by him, he sometimes trains me … Keep reading
In praise of the nerdy little workout notebook
I have mentioned my Nerdy Little Workout Notebook before, more than once. It coexists constantly in my bag with my journal and my writing ideas notebook. Yes, that is a lot of notebooks to lug around. But they help. Today is … Keep reading
Encounters with Gym Dudes
A side effect of going to the gym more often with an actual workout that I track in a Nerdy Little Notebook ™: more frequent run-ins with Gym Dudes. Do I need to define the Gym Dude? It signifies more … Keep reading
Frustration into inspiration
I’ve been rereading old journals. If you have old journals (or old blog entries!) yourself, you probably know that rereading them can be an excellent way to identify recurring behavior patterns. I often react by getting frustrated: Oh come on, Self. … Keep reading
One hundred degrees of perspiration
During the hottest part of the summer, I decided to take up hot yoga, because, you know, it was hot anyway. For those of you following along at home, the hot yoga occurs at a different place than the classes … Keep reading
Gym philosophy
When I do the elliptical trainer, my pace is generally about 5 miles an hour. Often, I feel bad about this. It seems so slow in comparison to the people I know who do marathons and triathlons. (We’ll leave aside … Keep reading
Conclusions and the avoidance of leaping to them
For a little while, I’ve been getting to the gym…intermittently, let’s say. I’ve been going more often in the last couple of weeks, and feeling good about it. But I started noticing that every time I did a cardio workout, … Keep reading
Not a profound New Year entry
I may yet write something substantive with reflections re: the date ending in a different digit, but I have reason to suspect that if I do, it will be melancholy, and right now, I’d rather go for frivolity. So let … Keep reading
Lackluster
So when you drag yourself to the gym for the first time all week, your iPod is missing, and you’re feeling low-energy to begin with, it does not help when the music playing in the gym is smooth jazz, with … Keep reading
Note to self
Just because you think of yourself as something of a weightlifting badass, and just because every other woman in the class is twice your age and using one pound weights, it does not mean that for the very first step … Keep reading
Post #546
1. First I have to repost these great work-in-progress photos that Erika put up of the story we’re doing for the Snow Stories anthology. It’s about getting lost, and getting un-lost. 2. I don’t have a gym story this week, … Keep reading
Gym story
There was one of those guys at the gym this morning. One of those guys for whom every rep of every set must be accompanied by a long, high-volume groan. The sort that typically goes along with…other types of activities. … Keep reading
This, that
1. An item in support of that new career path I posted about. 2. Thanks, runners, for all your wise advice. I’ve been doing the “add a minute each time at the faster pace” and so far I am up … Keep reading
Paging the runners who read this
So yesterday I had the (not very earth-shattering) revelation that perhaps one of the reasons I run (more like jog) so slowly is that when I do it, I almost always do between 3 and 5 miles on the treadmill, … Keep reading