Category Archives: Fitness

Parkour: No Obstacle is Too Big

July 30, 2009 – 8:44 am

(This is cross-posted at BlogHer.)
If I were outdoors and happened to see someone leaping over park benches, dangling from tree branches, and balancing precariously on things that most people wouldn’t think to bother with, I’d probably think they were a little bit crazy. Or at least I would have thought they were crazy before [...]

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Hypothyroidism: A Diagnosis and an Attempt to Get Rid of My Funk

July 22, 2009 – 7:02 am

(This is cross-posted at BlogHer.)
I don’t like to take pills if I don’t have to. Normally this aversion is fine; I haven’t had any ailments or deficiencies in quite some time that have required me to take any pills on a daily basis. I do take a daily multivitamin and other vitamin supplements [...]

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FitBloggin’: A Conference for Fitness Bloggers

July 15, 2009 – 6:27 am

(This is cross-posted at BlogHer.)
I have no idea what it takes to plan a conference. I’ve planned meetings and taken care of various types of logistics at my job, but that’s on a pretty small scale compared to organizing something of this magnitude. First you have to think about big-picture things, such as [...]

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Working Out While Traveling Away From Home

July 8, 2009 – 6:28 am

(This is cross-posted at BlogHer.)
The first time I went to a BlogHer conference in the summer of 2007, I did a lot of walking. The conference venue in Chicago wasn’t close to the location where I was staying (it was a friend’s apartment, which means it was free), so I used a variety of [...]

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