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  • On Tracy Anderson and Michelle Obama's arms

    Oh, we live in a wacky, wacky world. Didja know Tracy Anderson is opening up a gym in NYC? It only costs an initiation fee of $1500 for a year plus, um, $900 a month.Oooh, wait, hold on: Bllleeeuuughhhhh. Spit. Wipe.

  • User Post: Just in time for some holiday or another: Presents for active people

    Whoa, are the holidays over? Well, then it's time for the "FF Top 5 Fitness Gifts gift-giving guide to things you could give to the exercisers in your life" aka the FFTFFGGGTTYCGTTEIYL. (If you say that acronym out loud, you will incidentally be making the noise I make when I do experience muscle fa

  • Wassup with the Pink Patch?

    I was thinking to myself the other day (I occasionally do have actual thoughts, you know) that we don't do enough for our young girls.I mean, yes, we rear them on a steady stream of unusually thin actresses, musicians, and models, with hardly any size diversity in evidence (and the thin-only aesthet

  • Dear Gwyneth Paltrow's trainer...

    Omigawd! I saw Gwyneth was on Oprah, talking about you, Tracy Anderson, her very own personal trainer. And you train Madonna too. That's so awesome. You know, I'm a personal trainer as well. We should totally get together and braid each other's hair and share exercise tips, doncha think? It would be

  • Skinny is soooo last year, healthy is now

    Skinny was bad back then too. From Modern Mechanix. Last week on my blog I kind of railed against 'healthy' for a bit, and my sister asked me about it afterwards. "I just had the feeling there was something else going on there," she said. "I mean, is healthy all that bad?" She's very astute, and ri

  • The best parenting advice EVER

    A while back I went to a baby shower, and the host had everyone write down their best advice on parenting for the expectant couple in an album. When it was my turn to come up with some pearls, I paused. The truth was that the very best pieces of advice were rarely about whether or not to co-sleep or

  • Five things you thought you'd never do to your kids

    Pre-child, I was righteous. I believed that while parenting was hard, I was going to manage to conduct myself well at least the majority of the time. Ha. Ha. Ha. Now I know that I'm more likely to high-five myself on very rare occasions of almost accidental successful parenting, than to reflect ever

  • Kim Kardashian can't lose the booty weight

    Dearest Kim,Heya, just browsing through US magazine, my go-to source for fair and balanced coverage of your hiney. And I read this:

  • The new "good mother"

    In the olden days of long, long ago, when our dinosaurs roamed the land and our mothers were having babies, there was a certain amount of pressure on moms. Mothers were supposed to raise the children with patience and a cheerful air of total domestic fulfillment. In the fantasy, the house was spotle

  • Why you may never have a six-pack

    Okay, I feel very truth-y today, and I need to tell you something. You may never have a six-pack.Or maybe more accurately, a visible six-pack. And I mean you could work your booty off, eat a real healthy diet, and still never get one. I mean, you might, but again, you might not. Are you mad now? Is

  • Five exercises to tackle the Mom-Flap Challenge

    You know of this mom-flap? A.k.a. the spare tire, the c-section remnant roll, the muffin top. Crabmommy, who coined the term, is tired of hers and she has issued a challenge. Five minutes of abdominal exercises daily to banish the flap for good. She put out a call to her readers, and is now on week

  • Food for kids is mostly junk

    With all the talk about childhood obesity, there's been a push towards trying to get children to eat healthy foods and become more active. I doubt most parents would assume a box of cereal with a picture of SpongeBob on the front was necessarily health food. But what if the box also had a label sayi

  • Put those guns away before you get us all killed

    The whole idea that girls may not be strengthening their legs because they are torn between wanting to play a sport and yet look like they don't (i.e. be un-muscled and not "thick") made me totally sad. How lame that girls have to feel the pressure to have bodies that are skinny instead of functiona

  • When Girls Get Hurt, People Get Stupid

    Nature intended her for team sports, yo.So recently lots of people talked to me about the NY Times magazine thang on girls and sports injuries. I wrote about it already, but there's oh so much more to be said, especially when you start to delve into the controversial responses to the article. One of

  • Girls Getting Hurt

    Show of hands who read the article on girl injuries in sports in the New York Times magazine? This alone is yikes-worthy: Some experts believe that in sports that both sexes play, girls rupture their A.C.L.s (i.e. blow out their knees) at rates as high as five times that of boys. Girls are also more

  • Everything I needed to know I learned from kickboxing

    Today stupid stuff interfered with my workouts, never a happy thing. This meant I had to miss my kickboxing class. I have to tell you it made me sadder than I expected it would, and I expected to be sad. This is kinda funny, since the first time I did kickboxing, I experienced a special kind of frus