FunFirstFitness! : )
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 [...]

January 22nd, 2010

Another expert, another gimmick

In my last post, I talked about fitness industry lies and how even some of the most reliable sources of information can often be misleading.  In that instance, I was referring to an article which stated that training with kettlebells will give you “twice the results in half the time”.  Part of that is true, [...]

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 [...]

October 1st, 2009

The Fat Burning Zone

Ever get on a treadmill, elliptical, or bike at the gym and notice the display indicating that you are now in your “fat burning zone”? Or what about when you choose one of the predetermined programs on a piece of cardio equipment and again several of the programs are depicted as working you out [...]

September 28th, 2009

Seek Out the Pain

I like to workout. Even if I don’t have a specific fitness goal like leaning down or sculpting my arms, I still workout regularly.
But some days it’s harder than others to pick up those weights. Especially if I’m working on a project and it is going well, then I don’t want to lose [...]