Looking Good (for a mom)

There are a few things I’ve learned NOT to do over the past year. These are common fitness mistakes that either waste your time, or cause your workout to be less efficient. Some of these are mistakes I made, others I was fortunate enough to learn not do before I made them. But they are all thing I see other people doing in the gym, just about every time I’m there. So here’s a quick list of things I’ve learned to avoid — and now you can too... Read More

I have to admit, I’ve been on a bit of a tirade lately about “conventional wisdom.” There are so many times I’ve heard people give health and fitness advice to others, and the advice is either either completely false, possibly true but there’s no research to support it, or the research that supports it is under debate. Yet, thanks to news articles that share the interesting conclusions of scientists, but hold back the boring details (whether the conclusions are based on research or conjecture, how the study – if any – was conducted, what peer reviewers of the study thought about the conclusions), everyone from my 10 year-old neighbor to a Personal Trainer at one of the local gyms will repeat the “sound bytes” from the article ad naseum... Read More

Just about everyone I see at the gym spends at least some of their workout doing some type of sit-up or crunch. Now I’ve been going to this gym for five months, and I see the same people regularly. What I can tell you is that the same people I see doing sit-ups every week still have the same flabby midsections they had five months ago. Maybe you’ve experienced the same thing – sit-up after sit-up, crunch after crunch, and still you don’t have a toned midsection... Read More