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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 to fourteen whole minutes at the 10 minute/mile pace, and then I try to run [...]
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, and if I did a shorter distance, I might be able to increase my speed. [...]
