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 than simply a dude who happens to be in the gym. A Gym Dude is [...]
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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. How many times do you have to LEARN before it sinks in? Seriously, AGAIN you’re [...]
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 with the instructor I wrote about in “They carry parasites,” and the dynamic is very [...]
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 the question of why I choose those folks to measure myself against.) So sometimes, I [...]
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, my knees got so sore. So I beat myself up: God, I must be totally [...]
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 me tell you about my dumb problem. No, really, it is a dumb problem. I [...]
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 irregular bursts of static.
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 aerobics plus weights class you have ever taken in your life, you should pick the [...]
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, but I have a couple of snippets: Dude on treadmill, breathing heavily, to his trainer: [...]
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. Now, lots of people, including me, find that some kind of forceful exhaling when you’re [...]
