Category: Exercise
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Why we don’t do soccer.
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26 comments on Why we don’t do soccer.Jamie needs an auxiliary brain: A few years ago I remember thinking, "If I have three kids in Scouts and three in soccer my head is going to pop off." …My plan was to catch the last few minutes of Marty's game and warm him up with a cup of tea at the nearby Panera.…
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“Training for Motherhood.”
Here's a ten-minute "functional fitness" strength-training workout for moms, designed to keep you strong enough to pick up your heavy kids, from Kara at Mama Sweat (and Ryan McDowell and Darcy Franklin of Crossfit Minnesota). When Darcy demonstrates picking up an item like a medicine ball or a car seat and using its weight as…
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Taking a step back.
I can't for the life of me remember what temporary insanity induced me to get on a pair of downhill skis for the first time. It was sixteen years ago. I must have been bored. I was in college, working an internship in Kentucky of all places, and some of the other interns and…
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Cutting back the recipe.
Kara at Mama Sweat posts her favorite one-hour gym workout, involving 30 minutes on the stationary bike, 20 minutes on the treadmill, and 10 minutes in the pool: a mini-triathlon. It sounds pretty good, and has the advantage of being simple and easy to remember. I was pretty fixated on the idea that because of…
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Sore.
Monday night I dropped the kids off at the YMCA play area and headed up to the indoor track with a page of scrawled workout notes from my running clinic last Saturday. The instructor had provided us with four weeks' worth of drills. "It'll probably drive you crazy to take this time off getting almost no…
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Comfort zone, smashed.
A while ago I subscribed to a local women's running list, but I never got around to going to any of the weekly workouts held at a high school outdoor track. So the week before Thanksgiving when an announcement went out for a four-hour running clinic to work on form and prevent injury, I thought,…
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Recovery.
About four weeks ago I came down with an awful cold, and then one day I had a terrible migraine, and then we went out of town for the weekend, and then I contracted an eye infection at LensCrafters, and then my in-laws came to visit this weekend, and what do you know: I hadn't…
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30 variations on the push-up.
I haven't started yet, but I'm pondering adding push-ups to my exercise routine. This video may help me get in the mood. As for me, an old wrist injury makes "normal" pushups pretty hard to do, so I think I might try the trick with the barbells or possibly the bosu half-ball thingy.
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The answer depends on the question.
A friend of mine asked me a week ago, "So, how important do you really think exercise is for weight loss?" I gave a rambly off-the-cuff answer, but I wasn't satisfied with it. Let me try again. Research data does exist about the subject. But the kind of data that's out there is not the…
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Building muscle with light weights.
I've always been sort of dismissive of the idea of "light weight, many reps," but maybe it's not so useless after all: Current gym dogma holds that to build muscle size you need to lift heavy weights. However, a new study conducted at McMaster University has shown that a similar degree of muscle building can…
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Results.
If I could only learn to live in the moment, I'd have a much easier time running races. I spent the first two miles of my 5k worrying about the big hill that I was going to have to climb in the third mile. I'd seen it as soon as I rounded the first bend…
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Off to the races.
Pre-race breakfast: coffee, broccoli-onion omelet, part of a bagel with butter. Wish me luck!
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