Tag - motivation

November 5, 2016

Are your small clothes from college making you fat?

Anyone else keep a couple’ve those Barbie sized outfits around from college? Ever convince yourself it’s ’cause of nostalgia? That they take you back to the past, like some sartorial...

June 23, 2016

Why you should totally record your training sessions

It happens about halfway through my workout, usually. My shoulders begin to bow. My core clocks out of its cardio duties. And, before I know it, I’m just shuffling my...

June 16, 2016

How snapping selfies slimmed down this Instagram widow

We’re constantly hearing about how harmful selfies can be for our mental health. It distances us from authentic connection, they say. It isolates us from those we love, they say....

May 30, 2016

Why the secret to winning is getting high on your own supply.

When you’ve been working out for a while, it’s easy to forget what your motivation is. Especially when you get stuck in a rut. If I dig around a little,...

May 20, 2016

How to get it up for the sprint bits of your interval workout

The fat blasting effects of an minimalistic interval workout still boggle my mind. See, not terribly long ago, I injured my foot jogging (my wifey cardio) and had to take...

April 14, 2016

Wanna get paid to perspire? There’s an app for that.

“Health and wellness” is such an abstract idea. I mean, I think of that phrase and imagine a lithe dancing hippie, chewing a tuber she just pulled out of the...

March 14, 2016

Vino as cardio inspo? Wine not?

So, this cute video popped up in my feed today. It’s pretty much just half a minute of this chick who’s working out and improv-ing with bottles of her favorite...

October 15, 2015

5 pre-workout endorphin boosters

Some of us can get high off’a nice, long run. Exercise is so great that the mere thought of it’s enough to excite you alone. For some others of us,...

September 17, 2015

Is fitspo just as counterproductive as thinspo?

Back when the Beatles hired a hippie instructor (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi) to teach them some inner peace, homeboy showed ’em all this practice that’s kinda like fitness for your mind:...

July 26, 2015

How to survive laziness and cravings

Now that you’ve remembered why you want to stay on your fitness path, how do you? I mean, on those days (or series of them) where your former will to...