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It’s TETHERBALL time!

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I shall let you in on my dirty little secret. A secret which becomes pretty readily apparent if you spend any time with me on ANY athletic endeavor. I'm completely, wholly and utterly uncoordinated. There's a reason I LOVE THE IRON as there's never a ball or birdie or ANYTHING flying at my face & requiring me to lob it back. I shall let you in on another dirty little secret. As much ... Continue Reading

Shedding good habits.

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This originally started as a blog post all about the health benefits of raking leaves. When the idea came to me I grew overly filled with zeal as, back in the ATX, I had no such leaf raking opportunities. It had been 20+ years  since I'd last scraped up the fall stuffs (LONG before I carved my healthy path) and it kinda rocked! I raked. I blogged in my head. It would have been an ... Continue Reading

Hopscotch with me.

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I know. I'm gonna stop & gaze lovingly at the photo above as well she types pridefully pretending the whole 'net is shocked how quickly the Tornado is growing, too. The Tornado was four and, more even than the fact I wanna eat her face off she's so little and sweet, the photo symbolizes for me the lost art of exercise as FUN. Necklace in hand. Hair flying. Chortles of joy I ... Continue Reading

Join me in exercising LESS?

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SWING SET fitness! I know. I say it all the time. The thing is, until I have the world on my band wagon (world wagon?!), I'm gonna say it again and again. In this day & age when everyone admonishes us to increase the exercise! I'm here waving the "sometimes less (time) is indeed more (results)!" flag loud & proud. (A flag which is, alas, not quite as fun as my freak flag. ... Continue Reading

Creative cardio #wycwyc style.

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(Doing what I can when I can. It's not a fad--it's my life.) The question I'm most frequently asked is whether I really practice what I preach on my blog. Emails. Tweets. Comments. Facebook messages. It seems the collective you wonder if my philosophy is something to which I actually adhere. move. daily. something. #wycwyc. day in & out. year in & out. until death. It ... Continue Reading

Four ways slacklining parallels my life.

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I blame this post on the fact I made a not-that-funny joke about teaching Charming to slackline. Afterward, in my inimitable way, I grew obsessed with the parallels between slacklining and my life.   I used to tell people--everyone. anyone who would listen.---what terrible balance I had. If you handed me a BOSU ball I'd mount, stand pridefully aloft for a fleeting few seconds----and ... Continue Reading

I’m running a half-marathon (AKA practicing what I long to preach).

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For the past few Saturday mornings the child and I have headed to Lake Merritt and met up with a group called Running for a Better Oakland  (RBO for short which lends itself fantastically to the oft shouted by 8 year old types & their annoying 44 year old compatriot LETS GO RBO!!!). It's been fun. Surprisingly fun. *Still* fun when we ran in pouring rain and did mountain climbers ... Continue Reading

Should we blog about our kids?

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I've blogged though the Tornado's entire life. I blogged before her (2001. We didn't have a name for what we were doing.) and, while I imagine it will be called something else, I'll blog long after she's moved out of the house. My first blogging gig was paid and had nary a reference to anything familial. I was hired by a website (Muscle Journal) to post solely about my workouts.  Type. ... Continue Reading

Accidental goal achievement.

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Years ago. Many. Perhaps around twenty? I had a conversation with my then-boyfriend/now-husband: I long to be the individual people look at and wonder: Does she own a car? I always see her on her bike! Seriously. Does she own a car?! I dont even know precisely why I longed for this (remnants of college Grateful Dead loving days? a sense of wanting the freedom I surmised a bike-only ... Continue Reading

I sleep like a toddler.

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  These days it seems the most common question I receive is about sleep. I get lots of what do you eat?! or will you share your workout routine? queries---but more than anything Im asked what time I plop my misfit-self in bed, how you can become an early riser & if I get enough rest (according to that test I *do*--you?!). I completely understand. Given the time of day I ... Continue Reading

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