I was in the 6th grade when the winter olympics were held in Norway. I’d been too young to really appreciate previous olympics (I was pretty sure Calgary was the place where Jesus was killed so I wondered why they’d picked it for the olympics). But the olympics in Lillehammer really stuck with me. I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘fitness’
Let It Snow!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fitness, norway, olympics, winter, winter sports on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Chronicles of Narnia: the Soldier, the Snake, and the State Park
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged christmas, fitness, narnia on December 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My workout buddy called me yesterday as I was beginning my descent into the post-sugar-rush holiday torpor. I’ve been bad, he said. Me too, I said.
Chinese food. Biscotti. Baklava. Sugar plums. The list goes on.
Today, fearing the wrath of the sugar plum fairy upon our mortal frames, we met at an ungodly hour in the [...]
Internet Roundup #1: Fun with sledgehammers
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fitness, pushups, sledgehammers, strength training on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here are two websites I’ve recently come across in my travels on the internet:
one hundred pushups and shovelglove
One Hundred Pushups is a six week training program designed to take anyone from 0 to 100 consecutive pushups in six weeks. The progression from week to week seems a bit ambitious at times; I’m currently repeating the [...]
Relationships, Fitness, and Cold Pizza at 2 a.m.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abs, boston, Capoeira, cold pizza, fitness, heavy bag, Relationships, running on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Independence Day. It’s July already! A quick look at the fridge and I can still remember buying this Collector’s Edition Sports Illustrated Swim suit calender. I clearly remember removing the protective plastic wrapping from it. I sat for several minutes lost in a daydream, praising whoever created the camera. Back to reality and a great day [...]
Training for War on the Roads in Mass
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged commuting, fitness, motivation on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Congratulations to Coral And Sandy!! Great Race and awesome Superbuffness to you both for waking up on a cloudy Sunday morning and running!
On a good day I am awake between 5 and 530 am. I roll out of bed and the first thing I do after visiting Mr. potty, is to weigh myself and do [...]
Class Pix-Capoeira the Ultimate Workout!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged artes das gerais, Capoeira, fitness on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Coral in the middle of an intense capoeira movement. Hot-Yes! Single-Yes! Superbuff-Definitely
My soon to be patented glute workout helped make this possible LOL!
From left to right front row
Superbuff Soldado, Instructor Tarzan, Probationary Superbuff-MacGyver
Running in a Thunderstorm and Other Things That Serve You Right For Being a Lazy Jerk
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fitness, motivation, running, thunderstorms on June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Lately I’ve gotten into a habit that goes something like this:
I’m setting my alarm before I go to bed. I think to myself, I’ll set my alarm for 7am, get up and go running. Yeah!
7am arrives. My alarm goes off and I think to myself, Oh, hell no. And then I sleep for another hour.
Today [...]
In Which Coral Bites Off More Than She Can Chew
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged charles river run, fitness, running on June 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday I agreed to do something which may or may not turn out to be a bad idea. I’m not going to say I was talked into it, but the idea was brought up and there was some chatting and curiosity got the better of me and here I am with a $25 dollar charge [...]
Hyannis Beach and Spider Boy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abs, beach, Capoeira, fitness, hyannis on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
* First things first. Our trip to the beach this past weekend was a blast. Our capoeira group invited us there to tan and train. We took some cool pix of Ze flipping and us baking in the sun. We should have the pictures up today or tomorrow. Capoeira is the BOMB DIGGITY!!!
Last [...]
Putting Down the Ducky, or Things Sesame Street Taught Me
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fitness, motivation on June 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
photo by longhorndave (flickr)
There’s an episode of Sesame Street where Ernie really wants to learn the saxophone. But he has a problem. Ernie has a rubber ducky that he really likes and he’s very reluctant to put it down. The problem is that both of Ernie’s hands are needed to play the saxophone.
This leads [...]
