Staying Fit When Sick

It happens to everyone: you’re eating well, exercising and feeling great.  Until you aren’t.  A cold, flu, or other illness way-lays for a few days.  The question is: when do you know if it’s OK to exercise and when should you simply rest and recover?
If you’re working in a public gym or taking a group [...]

Tale of the Scale: Losing Faith

I was working out yesterday – having another hard time – and I realized: I’ve lost faith in myself.
Months ago, I knew that parts of my workout were hard for me. There are things I don’t like to do (as there are in life, so there are in the gym).  I would do them anyway.  [...]

I Am What I Eat.

Food.
Michael Pollan’s oft-quoted line from In Defense of Food is a good place to start. I try to:
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
It wasn’t that long ago that I wouldn’t make this claim for myself. While I spurned “fast-food nation” except for the occasional visit to KFC, many of my meals [...]

Workout: The BOB

I usually do this workout late in the week, when I know I’ll have a full two days to recover.  It’s not one I’ve seen written up anywhere, and it really needs a companion workout The FOB.  The BOB is a workout that targets the entire Back of the Body.  It’s best if you can [...]

Tale of the Scale: 5/8 Comfortable

Guido and I repeated an old talk today. We haven’t played this game in a while; I rather missed it but welcomed it’s absence at the time. It was another round of “Do What I Say, Not What I Do..”
Remember the two of us are very much alike; we know how the other [...]

Finding Balance

Erin over at Lose the Buddha asked about finding balance in our workout obsessions. She’s working with a trainer, learning to love pushing weights, but wondering not that the weather is getting nice how she can balance her weight training and her running. Without losing either one.
She also doesn’t seem to have comments enabled, [...]

Bout Damn Time!

Finally.
Trainer Guido and I did the regular “weights and measures” thing today; I usually dread this because whatever success I’ve had on the weight loss side, I have never been able to get lean. The frustration and disappointment in Guido’s voice has always made me dislike the whole exercise. Still it’s valuable information [...]