This morning’s paper had a wire story about a study showing that kids get less exercise as they get older. Obviously it’s full of the nonsense you’ve come to expect; the headline I read talked about “lazy” kids, the article says that teenagers are “sluggish.” There’s no mention made of the piles of [...]
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So, the headline of this AP article is okay: “Europe plans free fruit, veggies for school kids.” Nothing wrong with that — in fact, I think it’s a swell idea. But you do know what’s coming next, right?
An estimated 22 million children in the 27-nation bloc of nearly 500 million people are overweight because of [...]
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Remember how back in January, I said I was going to try a bunch of exercise classes and report back here? And how, after five months, I’ve only written up belly dancing and Pilates? (Still haven’t gotten around to writing up water aerobics, but who better than an otter to tell you about that?) [...]
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I had my first belly dance performance last weekend. Let me tell you, nothing tests your body-positivity more than having your belly out on stage alongside 14 identically-dressed women, all of whom are smaller than you. I wanted to come through that with flying colors and then post right afterwards about how size [...]
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Since I know some of you out there are current or aspiring yoga or pilates teachers, I’m gonna give you a tip for free. (I would imagine this tip would also apply to tai chi instructors, and anyone else teaching a mind/body discipline.)
Here’s the tip: SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UUUUUUUUUUP. Especially when working with [...]
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Hey, remember my new year’s pledge to try a bunch of different exercise classes for the first time and report back? Well, I haven’t forgotten, even if I haven’t written one up since January. One of these days, I’m going to write up water aerobics (short answer: LOVE IT), but right now, my first experience [...]
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Go look at the awesome, awesome thing Michelle (a.k.a. Peggy Nature) made.
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So, I was just reading up on swimming, because I am the kind of nerd who cannot go to an open swim at a Park District pool without doing research first. And in the course of that research, I found this article, which attempts to define a “fitness swimmer” as opposed to a competitive one. [...]
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All right, I’ve just returned from my first ever belly dancing class. Yippee!
I’m trying to figure out what sort of format I want to use for writing up my exercise experiments. Let’s start with a simple 1-5 rating system.
Fun quotient: 3.5. Probably would have been 4.5, but the class was packed. I really liked it, [...]
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All right, y’all have inspired me with the 220-comment Exercise Smorgasbord thread! I stopped my private yoga lessons a couple of months ago (long story), and even though I’ve been mostly keeping up with my home practice, I feel like I’ve lost a lot of momentum. So I really want to try finding other [...]
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Notes from the Fatosphere
