Practical Fitness
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...
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Tara the Fierce Spin Instructor’s Fitness Story
Tara Busch combines musicality and HIIT for incredible spin results. Here’s the story of her fitness journey.
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Feel The Afterburn: HIIT and Tabata
HIIT and Tabata: burn more calories in less time (but not with less effort).
read moreHype Silver Lake: Finally, a True Neighborhood Spin Studio!
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...
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A Shot At Weight Loss
This site may say Fem 40 Fitness, but in reality I’m pushing 50. 50 feels markedly different from 40. It’s not just the little aches and pains; I’m lucky that I have very few of those. It’s more the damned weight gain. It started sneaking on a couple of years ago. Is...
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Do Athletes Feel Pain Differently?
In circus, we get pretty beat up and don’t seem to care much. Turns out, most other hardcore athletes do, too.
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Is the Gym Giving Me Pestilence and Disease?
In an attempt to save some money on more expensive spin and aerial classes, I joined my cozy local gym about six months ago. I mostly use the gym for cardio and floor work, since I get plenty of upper bodywork doing aerial. Unfortunately, I’m not sure the gym is good...
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Fitness in the Time of Choleric Rhetoric
Like many of my fellow Americans, I was shocked and devastated by last week’s election results. Although I live in California, a very blue state, I am having a ton of anxiety over the future. I cannot and will not normalize the election results; Trump might end up...
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Extreme Exercise Can Mean Extreme Silliness
There’s nothing funny about the Ironman. We have a place in Kona, where the Ironman begins and ends every year. It’s an explosion of the greatest, toughest athletes on earth, all descending upon what is essentially a cozy small town. They reward Kona with revenue and...
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Fitness is Relative: How A Walk Kicked My Butt
Here’s an observation: fitness is totally relative. What seems like fit to me might not be fit to you. And vice versa. A true test of fitness is engaging in a new activity, not on the normal workout agenda. Did it kick your butt? I’ve been struggling with my workout...
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