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February 1st, 2010

Fitness, fun, and roller skates

This weekend, I went to a Texas Roller Derby bout.  If you have never seen a roller derby, you have to check it out!  It’s a little hard to explain how the game works.  The bout takes place on a banked track and the girls wear the old time 4-wheeled skates.  Basically, one girl from [...]

October 5th, 2009

Play Bingo, Get Fit!

Today at boot camp we started the 4-week Boot Camp BINGO Challenge. I designed this challenge to be a fun way to set and hit some fitness goals over the month of October.
If you’d like to play along, I’m posting the BINGO card and rules. You can also use our card as a [...]

September 2nd, 2009

Is P90X Crap?

It’s good to be back home from visiting my family.  I had a great time, but it’s always nice to be home.
Right before I left, I had a chance to review the P90X program.  A lot of you have probably heard of it.  It is one of Tony Horton’s fitness programs which are under the [...]

July 31st, 2009

Ralphers VS Grease Lightning

5 Exercises, 1 Cool, Kick-Ass Game.
Grab a friend and try it!!
Fun 5 on Friday!!!
Here’s a quick description of the game.
-Divide into teams of 1-3 people
-List of exercises for each number on die
-1 person from each team runs up, rolls the die, and then runs out to do the exercise (stations are spread way out across [...]

July 10th, 2009

Lose weight, get toned, without working out!

For today’s workout at the Austin Rock Gym boot camp, we ventured outside for the Car Push workout. Here’s how it works…while one person pushes my car a designated distance, everyone else is doing a body weight exercise that I call out (burpees, mountain climbers, lunges, etc). A different exercise is called out [...]