by Jenny Heitz | Apr 17, 2018 | TRAINING
There’s a lot of talk about different types of fitness. You can, for instance, be aerobically fit but not particularly strong. Or, vice versa, you can be muscle bound though massive weight training gains but not be able to run around the block. So what, really, does...
by Jenny Heitz | Apr 3, 2018 | TRAINING
Tara Busch is that rare spin instructor who definitely marches to her own drummer. Her class, taught at Hype Silver Lake, is a thrash fest of HIIT and Tabata training. She is one of the few instructors I’ve encountered who crafts a training class for maximum cardio...
by Jenny Heitz | Mar 31, 2018 | TRAINING
Recently, I started taking spin classes that incorporate HIIT and Tabata methods. It’s been fun to have the extra challenge, plus, once over 40, anything new equals some sort of result. And we like results, right? The premise behind HIIT (high intensity interval...
by Jenny Heitz | Mar 3, 2018 | FUEL, RANT
I’ll just say it up front: I’m not a fan of woo. You know what I mean. Woo as in Goop bullshit about steaming vaginas and then stuffing them full of stones. Woo like detox tea, which causes a feeling of lightness only because you’ve pooped out half your body weight;...
by Jenny Heitz | Jan 27, 2018 | TRAINING
I’ve written in the past about my love for spinning and my constant attendance at the spin studio just down the hill, YAS. YAS, however, went belly up and closed just before Thanksgiving. It was a loss. I’m friends with many of the instructors. I took spin and the...
