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 today called it naptime yoga, and it’s true that it’s almost entirely done seated or [...]
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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 anyway. One day I was doing squats. I really want to be able to squat [...]
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 my Nerdy Little Workout Notebook’s one-year anniversary. Now I ain’t tryin to turn this into [...]
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 [...]
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.
