Category: Exercise
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Some new reading to bookmark about alignment and fitness.
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3 comments on Some new reading to bookmark about alignment and fitness.I don’t read a lot of fitness and outdoor activity blogs regularly, but I do follow a couple. One of my favorites is Mama Sweat by Kara Douglass Thom, who writes about living an active life “in the chaos of motherhood.” She has four children, including a pair of twins; she lives in my area,…
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No bonk this time.
I just got back from a late-evening trip to the gym. I never fail to be amazed by the transformative effect of a little bit of vigorous exercise on my mood. I've been sick, so I haven't been to the gym much lately. Last Tuesday I tried to run for the first time in…
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Woenails.
A pall has been cast over the general feeling of well-being with which I started out this pregnancy. Yesterday, I took my daughter into the Y for her swimming lesson and then, unable to get the 3-year-old to feel happy about staying in the child care for me, skipped my own workout and instead ambled…
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You don’t have to overdo it.
Article in the NYT Well Blog: Why 4 Workouts a Week May Be Better Than Six. And how about just two workouts a week? Really — almost as good. A common concern about exercise is that if you don’t do it almost every day, you won’t achieve much health benefit. But a commendable new study…
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The semi-annual retrospective.
Well, it's that time of year again. In May and November of every year — yeah, I'm a little late this holiday season, but at least I made it to the crucial "between Thanksgiving and Christmas" metric — I write a few posts about the maintenance of my 2008 weight loss. I do this…
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Adult swim, part II.
Jamie asked me to write about taking adult swim lessons. Here’s where I wrote about the year of lessons I took from my local YMCA. After a while, I figured it was time to start learning and improving on my own. Continuing… + + + All along, while I had been taking lessons from the…
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Adult swim.
I wonder if the reason I'm having trouble writing blog posts lately is that my two older sons have started setting an alarm so they can be downstairs playing Minecraft before I wake up. Even though, as the parent, I technically have the right to say "Begone, wretches!" and shoo them away so I can…
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A little middle-aged motivation for you.
The NYT "Well Blog" describes a study that's good news for those of us who are committed to staying fit in middle age — or who have time to practice better habits between now and then. [W]e are spending more years living with chronic disease and ill health — not the outcome that most of…
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The secret to living a balanced life.
Every once in a while someone, perhaps a fellow parishioner, or another mother in our preschool music class, or someone who reads my blog, will say to me: "Aren't you the one who is some kind of fitness fanatic? Who runs and swims all the time?" No, no, I'm not. It's really kind of funny.…
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The invisible hand.
Some time ago I quit the treadmill and started running around the indoor track that circles the upper half of the basketball court at the Y. I’m not sure why I suddenly got so tired of the treadmill. Maybe because it is impossible to escape the television completely. Maybe it was the demoralizing effect of…
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A different image of women’s fitness.
Pausing on my long drive back from Ohio to Minneapolis to share a link: Check out this inspiring and interesting article on Olympic powerlifter Holly Mangold.
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Exercise can make you fat. So what?
This Daily Mail article has been getting around — it’s a popular-press take on the theme “exercise can make you fat.” I am always kind of interested in how this particular idea gets reported in the popular press, because it strikes me that the tone is very important. Too much emphasis on the difficulty of…
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