Warm Up

Warm up. Yes, I am talking to mother nature. At LEAST warm up to 40 -- please?? But really I'm talking about warming up before you workout. I went to a class the other day my coworkers hear me lovingly (and sometimes not so lovingly) refer to as the Kick Your Butt Workout Class. Really it's called Total Conditioning, an advanced strength training class offered at Lifetime Fitness. (More to come on my intense love of Lifetime Fitness. LT is my gym...

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Shower...I mean bake...I mean shower

Who knew you could literally shower with all the ingredients coming straight from your kitchen. I'm on a kick recently of being more....simple. I don't want to call it organic per say, because if I could buy something at the store that I could actually read the ingredients, I would do that. Why...

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There always seem to be themes in my life...a couple of unrelated instances popping up all around one subject in a short time frame. Recently it's been about the Paleo diet. I know it's a fad -- just like Atkins, just like the South Beach Diet -- but this one has some history behind it. I haven't read anything scholarly about it yet, only a couple of articles online. One book recommended to me by a coworker is "The Primal Blueprint" by Mark Sisson....

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Confessions

I have to confess...I've been eating chocolate without exercise. I've been out of commission this week since the 1/2. Every step I take I feel my knee. I'm starting to reconsider if it was all worth it.....nah, it totally was. I limped for two days and am now walking reasonably normal, but it still...

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Yesterday morning my alarm clock rang at 5:00am. And yes, I willingly got up at 5:00am....willingly in the sense that if I didn't get up, the only person that would be disappointed would have been me...and maybe my running buddy....not willingly in the sense that I felt perky. No....

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ITBS

ITBS....Iowa Test of Basic Skills Just joking. More like, Ilio-Tibial Band Syndrome. I am a self-diagnosed ITBS victim. It was only 2 weeks ago that on a long run I had some pain around mile 8. I pushed through the next 2 miles okay, but at the end of my 10 mile run, I was having pain just walking....

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This weekend I downloaded some new songs I think will be great workout songs. You know when you hear a song and it makes you want to dance? That to me is a good workout song. Here are the four songs I downloaded: 1. Call Me Maybe -- Carly Rae Jepsen. I love this one. The orchestra in the chorus makes my heart leap...and hopefully will have the same effect on my legs. 2. All I Do is Win -- DJ Khaled. Yes, all I do is win (yeah right!). I like...

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