FunFitChicks: Fun, Effective Workouts 4 Women

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 [...]

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 [...]

I was struggling with what I should write about today.
But a friend of mine easily solved my dilemma with a Facebook post.
She posted about some trainer named Tracy Anderson whom I hadn’t heard of.  Turns out she supposedly trains Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow, and maybe some other celebrities.
So now she is opening a super-exclusive, super-expensive fitness [...]

Carpe Diem!
If you haven’t noticed, I post that phrase at the end of most of my emails, blog posts, and other forms of communication.
I’ve been asked numerous times what it means so I thought I’d take a minute to explain it today.
Carpe Diem is a Latin phrase that originates from a poem by Horace. [...]

A 20-year study published in the journal Science concluded that cutting calories by up to 30% can slow-down the aging process, improve brain function, and help you live longer.
The only catch in the study is that it was done on rhesus monkeys.
In the study, 76 adult rhesus monkeys were split into two groups.  One group [...]