Please to welcome MARCIA. After my experience with MOVING MEDITATION I grew curious about Chi Running. What is it? Would I like it? How would I ever know? The answer is *always* found in our tribe.... I didnât intentionally become a ChiRunner. I just ran. I heard things like âShe runs on her toesâ often enough to think something was âwrongâ with my stride. So I ... Continue Reading
Breath walking: misfit style.
Hello my name is MizFit (hi mizfit!) and Im a fast walker. It's not so much if we're ambling together but alone I tend to walk purposefully---with a destination in mind. A destination and, typically, said destination has a time associated with it. I stride purposefully, quickly, and exceedingly mindlessly. As a result, my recent trip to NYC was a tremendous gift. I had meetings ... Continue Reading
Miz meets the Street Strider Summit 8r (video).
Before we get started lets pause for a moment to bitch about address how busy we are. Deadlines, blogging, work, family, friends, LIFE yada yada DONE. Now that THAT'S out of the way---Id love to borrow one minute and fifty nine seconds of your day. Close to two minutes you'll never get back and yet less than two minutes to experience the Miz Becomes Phil Dunphy of the AMAZING ... Continue Reading
Im STREET STRIDING into spring!
If you listened closely on Saturday night you mightcould have heard a loud SCREAM of YEEEEEE HAW!!! From the moment we moved to Oakland I commenced a count down to March 10th when we'd spring forward and the days would get longer. I didnt rock the darker nights in the ATX, but when it was dark nights & still flip-flop warm outside I rocked them harder. Better. ... Continue Reading
Our bookstore workout.
No school for the child. Just did a BIGÂ move. This misfits *refusing* To lose her fit-GROOVE. No time for the GYM to get to and TRAIN. Im hitting up N.E.A.T. Again and again. Unpacking boxes. UNWRAPPING our stuff. Fitness is there. but it's awkward & rough. PLAYouts abound! Workouts at the desk. "TO THE BOOK STORE?" Was Tornado's ... Continue Reading
The secret to YOUR 2013 success.
Welcome to January. The month where the universe attempts to exploit our insecurities by promising it holds the (expensive) key to a healthier, happier and thinner us. Most proffer a quick-fix solution to goal achievement which, while not entirely ethical, actually makes some sense. Who wouldnât, if given the choice between fast and easy or arduous and sweaty, pick the former? (thats not ... Continue Reading
WORLD HOOP DAY.
It most likely comes as no surprise I love me some hula hoop. It's PLAY. It's childish. It's exercise without the *work* part of working out. You cant hoop incorrectly/wrong if youre laughing and enjoying. I dont talk much about my hoop-LOVE here because Im definitely no role-model/expert o'the hoop. Even after a few years, Im still an awkward hooper (translation: Ive ... Continue Reading
Roller Derby FITNESS…
Because nothing says GOOD LAWD I NEED TO BLOW ME OFF SOME MOVING-STRESS STEAM like skating around yer own garage. And no. Im *so* not going to get all "Top five health benefits of roller skating" on you today either. This experience was not about uber-serious health benefits (although if you seek that theres an article here which plainly states skating ... Continue Reading
Kickball: MizFit style.
New school years upon us. One FULL MONTH IS DONE! Our mornings? STILL CRAZY. Still JAM-PACKED with fun. We rise at the crack. Weâve much PLAYout time! We SKIP IT! Do the SPRINKLER! Take TRAMPOLINE time! We play bus stop BADMINTON. Shoot a marshmallow gun. These PLAYouts are fineâ but we needed *more* fun. Hopscotch didnt do ... Continue Reading
PLAYouts: Doing the sprinkler.
To know me is to be aware---especially in the summer---we try really, really, really hard never to WORKout. EVER. Life is too short (and the summer, to my chagrin, too too fleeting) to allow exercise to be yet another arena where we have to toil. Where we're forced to (fingerquote) work (unFQ). As a result, Ive chosen to morph the bulk of my fitness into fun. I've decided ... Continue Reading