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TeleYoga Wants You and Your Friends to Do All the Minutes of Yoga You Can Muster
In a mere week, the Million Minute Month begins! To cheer us all along, we've gathered powerful forces for good in the form of Spirit Guides. Today, a big welcome to Spirit Guide Christine Miller, Founder of TeleYoga, whose sweaty minute encouragement begins...now. On the line: A free private TeleYoga session. All you have to do is rally a few friends as fellow challengers. Here's how it works:
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Skyr Vs. Fage: Yogurt Deathmatch
All yogurts are not created equal. Some are champion snacks or even meals, and others are sugar-soaked goop. One serving of my childhood favorite, Western Family lowfat blueberry yogurt, contains 44g of sugar, versus 9g in an equally if not more delicious serving of Total Fage. So no more Western Family for me. Which brings us to the topic at hand: yogurts' nutritional content, specifically high-end, thick-style yogurts.
More...Celebrity Fitness
Sara Rue's Half Marathon Hurts My Lady Parts
I tweet, I admit it, but you know what I don't tweet about? My underpants. I personally prefer to keep the public underpants updates to a minimum. You know who doesn't? Sara Rue, Jenny Craig Spokesperson du jour. Yes, I am now imagining Sara Rue's vagina, and it's not my fault, she totally brought it up.
Her new skinny self ran a half-marathon over the weekend, along with her personal trainer. After the race she tweeted about having forgotten her undies at home, and how running commando is the only way to go.
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Yoga Trends
Nude Yoga Hits...Salt Lake City?
Nude yoga is old news in New York. (There's still time to sign up for Hot Nude Yoga's summer retreat!) But it's brand new to the fair state of Utah (last seen hosting the squeaky cleanest pole dancing competition in the lower 48). The AP reports today that thanks to pioneering Utah yoga instructor John Cottrell, SLC yoga enthusiasts can now enjoy twice monthly nude classes (a reasonable start, though a far cry from NYC's daily offerings). While the classes are supposed to be all about fitness, the AP reporter who attended noted "an undeniable sexual charge...in the room, making the exercise at times painfully weird and embarrassing." Having never been, I can't comment. Though I can certainly think of something even more painfully weird and embarrasing: Hot Nude Yoga Private Yoga Lessons. Awk-ward!
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Jill Miller Yoga Tune Up® Intensive
People* swear by Jill Miller and her Yoga Tune Up® method. It's restorative yoga designed to relieve injuries and promote healthy movement using traditional restorative yoga asanas, plus therapy balls and calisthenics.
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Gratuitous Video
Clean Momma Recklessly Combines Dusting and Pliés
Let's say you're a mom with no time, but you still want to get fit. Stop trying to carve out special exercise time, says Carolyn Barnes, a.k.a. cLean Momma. (Her strange capitalization.) Instead, she suggests working fitness into your household chores: Push-ups while you do the dishes, or lunges while vacuuming. Really?
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Motherhood, E. coli, and Britney — Oh My!
And in today’s news...The Center for Disease Control tells us that women in America are having their babies later. Apparently, the average age of a new American mother is now 25. That still seems pretty young, but teen pregnancies must more than offset the fertility clinic effect. In any event, American moms are spring chickens compared to the Swiss and Japanese who are 29 on average when they become mothers. Meanwhile, attention you moms, The Guardian declares that a potentially dangerous strain of E coli struck two girls at a dance festival in Wales. (Reminder: Go see Food, Inc. for context on this one.) And, finally, everyone take heart: Britney mother-of-two Spears’ body is hot again. So how was your weekend?
Turning a negative into a positive. Day 日本語. "7" in Japanese
Day 日本語. "7" in Japanese
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Goal Time
D.I.Y. Feats—You Decide, We Support
Haven't settled on your D.I.Y. Feat for the New Year's Edition Challenge yet? Here's a little inspiration from a few of your fellow challengers:
- Sparklerhawk's DIY Feat is an hour of "by yourself" time three times a week before going to bed. No computer, not TV, just her.
- Joba is taking a latin dance class.
- Butwhatifido is determined to finally go to a Bikram yoga studio.
- Syrupandhoney is eating all her meals at a table.
- Kahliah is saying no to restaurants.
- Sandyliz is zapping TV from her life.
- Hktexan is getting out of bed the first time the alarm rings, no snooze.
- CakeOrDeath is recording every penny she spends.
- 100Pounds is doing Pilates and Bollywood Dancing.
- Lhlady517 is taking out the trash, doing the dishes, and sweeping the floor every night.
- Marsadrian is sitting on her exercise ball at work everyday.
- Snowpeach is taking showers of five minutes or less all challenge long.
Put yours out there, and we'll hold you to it.
Poet Laureate
Mohawk’s Got the Rants
Maybe I’m channeling msh258 here, but something about today seems like it deserves a rant or two. Lo and behold, I refresh my Yahoo news page and read this lovely article about new Wisconsin legislation that’ll slap a 10k fine and some jail time on health teachers if they teach kids about contraceptives because a) it’s illegal to have sex if you’re a minor in Wisconsin (HA!) and b) knowing how to have safe sex will “contribute to the delinquency of a minor.”
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A Healthy St. Patrick’s Day
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!! It is officially that time of the year, the final stretch before winter vaults into spring, when everyone has to green it up, get sloshed on Jameson, and wear patently sexy shirts like the one I have that reads: “Kiss me I’m (1/3) Irish.” In a similar fashion to my widely revered and respected Healthy Super Bowl post, I am offering, to you, a Healthy St. Patrick’s Day menu of alternatives. BLASPHEMER, you say? I’M BLOGGING FOR A FITNESS WEBSITE YOU JACKASS, I slur, before decking your boyfriend and ripping my shirt off so you can admire my dead sexy freckles. Check out the list after the jump.
More...Vent About “Easy Tone” Shoes
I’ve been meaning to write about this for awhile now, but after seeing another one of the infuriating commercials this morning while I was on the treadmill, it just had to be done.
Has anyone else seen the Reebok commercials for these shoes? If not: http://www.reebok.com/microsites/easytone_reebok/
More...Home Stretch
Two Workouts a Day — You Must Be Crazy!
"Yup, I am crazy. I did a pilates class and right afterwards my normally scheduled yoga class....Crazy is the name and working out is the addiction." — D.A., today, 3:42 P.M.
Yoga Retreats
Yoga High’s Liz Buehler Walker and Mel Russo Take On Kripalu
Liz Buehler Walker and Mel Russo of the hip, Lower East Side Yoga High center are leading their very first six-day retreat in the Berkshires this Fall. Mel, formerly of East Yoga, is getting rave reviews from the tattooed hipster crowd down on Clinton Street. See for yourself: Learn to backbend in the mountains while receiving spa treatments and eating delicious food.
- Where: Kripalu
- When: September 20-25th
- What: Two classes a day. Morning class focuses on inversions, backbends, jump-backs and balancing. Afternoon class focuses on teaching together.
- How much: Costs Range from $745 to $1,930
- Link: Yoga High Kripalu Retreat
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I'm in, courtesy of zuzupetals.
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