All Entries in the "Workin’ Out" Category
Finding and caring for the right yoga mat
A Yoga mat has two basic purposes. It needs to keep you from slipping and sliding while you go through your Asanas postures. It also needs to provide padding between you and the floor if you are very thin and/or do hard fast workouts like Ashtanga Yoga. There are so many different yoga mats available [...]
Kacy Duke’s Top Tips for Summer Fitness
Disclaimer: The GGS Media was not paid for this advertisement. We decided to run this for Dove because we do like their Campaign for Real Beauty. We were given samples of Dove Ultimate Visibly Smooth anti-perspirant/deodorant. Kacy Duke, fitness expert to celebrities including Gwen Stefani and Mary J. Blige, knows that feeling physically fit and [...]
Small Town, Big Winners
I fell in love with this story. A tiny town in Oregon has started their own “Biggest Loser” campaign. Every Tuesday a lime cardboard sheet goes up in the only grocery store in the town with the name of the town’s biggest loser of the week. 20% of the town’s population is involved and together [...]
Top 10 excuses I use NOT to exercise
Ahhhhhh…..we tell ourselves daily why we SHOULDN’T exercise. Here are some excuses that have been (too) effective for me over the last few years:
11 Steps to Create Powerful Goals
Craig is a 21-year-old student currently studying psychology at Bournemouth University. He runs a self-improvement site filled with free summaries and articles created from his own self improvement path. He has worked extensively in areas such as dating, health and fitness, social interaction, psychology and computer skills to improve himself, as well as to spread [...]
What are your most embarrassing workout moments?
I went for my run the other day and it took me past the spot my kids have gleefully dubbed “Mom’s Puke Tree” (yes, it is still alive despite what I did to it that day). Anyway, I’m happy to report the incident did not repeat itself! Although I have to say I was REALLY [...]
How Stopping my Cardio Classes changed my Life
Perhaps I shouldn’t be admitting this as the co-owner of this fitness blog, but I have lost my motivation to get to the gym since the kids have been out of school. I used to drop them off at school for 830am and than I would go straight to the gym. I didn’t even think [...]
10 Tips to Sneak a Workout into your Busy Day
Here are 10 great tips to sneak a little more workout time into a busy schedule. 1. Swap your chair for a balance ball. If this one won’t go over well at work, at least try it while watching TV or paying the bills at the kitchen table. Sitting on a balance ball with two [...]
2 Blondes in a Pink Kayak…Our First Experience
Kayaking. Always wanted to try it, never really got around to it. Part of the reason is just plain apprehension about tipping over! But when I signed on to participate in the a super-worthy Innovative Fitness Canuck Place Adventure Challenge which raises money to benefit the sick kids and their families that visit Canuck Place, [...]
Grinding Up The Grouse Grind
I don’t know what possessed me to check my phone the other night when my good friend Lori texted me. I was minding my own business reading and enjoying my second glass of wine of the evening. All was calm and peaceful and lazy… …and then my phone beeped and there was Lori’s text beckoning [...]
Taking Our Bodies Back: How to Break Free from the Comparison Trap
Kristen Moeller, Author of Waiting for Jack: Confessions of a Self-Help Junkie: How to Stop Waiting and Start Living Your Life Summer is officially here. For many women, that means bathing suit anxiety. That means more focus on those “troubling” body parts. That means a last minute purchase of a gym membership that you won’t use. [...]
How to Lose Weight the Frugal Way
Dieting is big business! Watch only a few moments of late night television and you’ll be barraged with ads for fat burning creams, diet pills and the latest craze in exercise gimmickry. Don’t be fooled! You can successfully slim down this summer without spending money on needless items with our 5 savings tips for weight [...]
The Yoga Body Diet Author Interview
The Yoga Body Diet is a four-week plan that inspires you to eat, move, and think according to your natural rhythms. It was written by Kristen Schultz Dollard who is also the digital director of Self Magazine, the former editor of iyogalife.com and a yoga teacher in New York. She wrote The Yoga Body Diet with Dr. [...]
David Beckham Trades Soccer for Chocolate
The World Cup, one of the biggest sporting events worldwide, is just a few days away. But one very famous player will not be on the field: David Beckham. ( I heart him..sigh)Unfortunately, an injury is prohibiting Beckham from training and practicing, which means the British soccer player will not be representing his English team in [...]
Playgrounds: Not just for Kids!
Taking your kids to the playground doesn’t mean that you are relegated to sitting on a bench with a book. Join your kids by completing this workout and showing them that fitness, and fun, don’t stop when you grow up! Sprint to the edge of the playground and walk back. Repeat 10 times. Use the [...]
Working Out on the Go: Fitness in Tahoe
We recently took a family trip to South Lake Tahoe, California (and Nevada) for just over a week of fun, sun and rum. Well, fun and rum and not so much sun, since it is the worst spring weather the locals can remember: snowing every day, melting every afternoon. I did get in a run [...]
