When I was pregnant with all three of my children, strangers would come up to me at the gym and say things like “are you sure you should be using those cattle balls? Looks dangerous” or “wow! Your doctor say it’s okay to workout like that?” Ahhh yes the advice of a stranger…oy. But I […]
Five Nuggets to Light Your Primal Fire: Revisiting “Paleo Workouts for Dummies”
Nothing screams “beach read” like Pat Flynn’s (& Dr. Kellyann Petrucci’s) Paleo Workouts for Dummies. Actually, don’t tell Pat, but I was scrounging at the last minute to pack a book or two for my OCNJ vacation, and that one was readily available. I read it nearly cover to cover about 3 years ago; what […]
Loving Yourself Is Not Letting Yourself Go
There’s a whole subset of the body positive crowd I’m just not into. I get you should love yourself no matter what. I believe it wholeheartedly. Because at some point, no matter how hard you work, some things are just never going to change. For me, I have dandruff. So you accept that. You […]
Simple Tricks to Up Your Fitness Game NOW
There are two types of people in this world: those who replace the roll of toilet paper and those who do not. I can’t be sure if this is true. And, if it is true, I’m not sure what kind of generalizations can be made regarding either group. All I know is that, on three […]
How to Overcome Rationalization
What’s tricky about rationalization is what we say to ourselves is often true. We are short on time; we do have other bills to pay. The point, however, is even if something is technically true it can still be totally wrong. Yes, we are short on time, but that is no reason to not workout. (You’d be utterly amazed […]