Working Out: Solo Or Social?
I like to train alone. I don't care for classes or working out with others. I prefer to do my own thing and rely on the kindness of others if I need help with a spot.
I like to train alone. I don't care for classes or working out with others. I prefer to do my own thing and rely on the kindness of others if I need help with a spot.
Andy McDonald | Posted 04.24.2012
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Posted 02.05.2012
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goodmenproject.com | Posted 01.23.2012
Full disclosure: I'm 57 years old, and twenty pounds over weight - and that was fine with me, at least until I caught a glimpse of myself, ambushed by...
Jerry Zezima | Posted 03.19.2012
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Posted 01.06.2012
Exactly how far would you go for cast-iron pecs or the perfect six-pack? Indeed, gay men have been stereotypically cast as gym bunnies by popular ...
Blisstree | Posted 01.05.2012
Equinox, the upscale gym with locations in New York, Dallas, Chicago and other locations throughout the east and west coast, is causing quite an uproa...
The Huffington Post | Sarah Klein | Posted 01.05.2012
A line for the showers, no available locker (or parking spot!) in sight and a waitlist for the treadmill that's longer than the time you're allowed to...
Sam Sommers | Posted 02.29.2012
You've been lied to. Or, at the very least, misled. It's simply not true that everything you need to know about life you learned in Kindergarten.
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring | Posted 02.28.2012
You would think that, as an Iyengar-style yoga teacher of three (mere) years' standing, I might at least notice if a one-legged yogini (female yoga student) "walked" into my classroom. Reader, I did not notice.
Leslie Goldman | Posted 02.26.2012
Why is there an 11-year-old on the elliptical next to me?
Avital Binshtock | Posted 02.20.2012
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Elizabeth Boleman-Herring | Posted 02.11.2012
In the middle of my sixth decade (at age 54, Oh Best Belovéds), I abandoned the life of the mind, as I once conceived it, and gave myself over, quixo...
AP | GEORGE M. WALSH | Posted 12.31.2011
COLONIE, N.Y. — A burly, incoherent 32-year-old man who rampaged through an upstate New York gym died after going into cardiac arrest when he wa...
Michael Feigin, M.S., C.S.C.S. | Posted 12.24.2011
I wanted to know what you all thought were the most offensive breaches of gym etiquette. The answers came in fast and angry.
Small Kitchen College | Posted 12.11.2011
When I was about one week into my freshman year of college, I remember thinking that I had finally discovered the way to a Jessica Biel body. Six months and 40 pounds later, I was staring at my muffin top and wondering what had gone wrong.
Posted 10.22.2011
From CNN.com: The U.S. surgeon general stopped by the spectacle known as the Bronner Bros. International Hair Show on Sunday - and it wasn't for a new...
www.more.com | Posted 10.18.2011
Any mother who has ever nursed a child knows when a baby’s gotta eat, a baby’s gotta eat. But despite the declarations that “breast is best,” ...
Jennifer Ketcham | Posted 10.15.2011
Since the discovery of my hips, I've been trying to slim them down, and as a result have spent thousands of dollars on gym memberships where I get toned under bad fluorescent lighting.
Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 10.05.2011
Ditch those free weights, and grab a cast iron skillet instead! It's summertime, which means some of us are a little bit less worried about what topp...
Michael Olajide Jr. | Posted 10.01.2011
Basically, if you are not into professional athletics, you have two choices: It's the "boutique gym" or the "franchised gym."
Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 09.25.2011
A gym membership was out of the question; the price of a month-long membership to anywhere is INSANE, and I didn't have a way to get there anyway. So I came up with my own routines.
Julia Plevin | Posted 09.13.2011
Sometimes when people show up at the climbing gym on Harrison without a partner, the employees will announce over the P.A. system that someone is looking for a partner to belay. This is like putting yourself in a live date auction.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sara Gaynes | Posted 09.13.2011
Gym-goers everywhere have, at some point, encountered another member behaving badly. We spoke to Jon Baraglia, a regional fitness director for Bally T...
Natasha Hastings | Posted 07.17.2011
For workaholics, nutrition and fitness are the last things in mind when you still have to factor in rest, family and leisure activities. Well, who says you can't have it all?
Caroline Gick | Posted 04.29.2012