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Von Hottie On Physique 57, Pre-Natal Yoga, and Her Trainer's Girlfriend

Yesterday was an epic fitness day, in three parts. Get cozy, it's a big story...

I took a morning Physique 57 class with a lady friend. I've always been curious about just what kind of workout Kelly Ripa is doing! It was a pretty intense toning workout, lots of jiggling, squatting, and thrusting of things while on your tippy toes. I was in an intermediate class, so I felt like an impostor floppy fish floundering in a sea of lithe Lululemon dolphins.

New York Companies Use Social Media and Corporate Rivalry to Lose Weight

Move over corporate softball league! New York City companies are using Social Workout to boost corporate wellness in the first-ever public, inter-company, virtual fitness challenge.

Goals

Social Workout-ers Are So Responsible And Yet So Daring

Success comes from the regular practice of good habits. Recently, Social Workout users wanted to trapeze occasionally, correspond the old-fashioned way, and make time for a classic constitutional. Such admirable aspirations!

Wake Up Call

On Progress

Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone. ~ Donny Osmond 

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Pity party of one still made it to Ride the Zone

In the hierarchy of my female friendships, Sass is my mistress but we both have pre-existing long-term relationships with our "wives." Went for a fun, gosspy lunch with my wife yesterday, only she breaks the news that she and her husband are moving back to San Francisco, and this time they are definitely not returning to New York. Heartbreak. After Yoga Vida class, go for dinner with two friends. They tell me they're moving to Indiana. I drink too much wine and stay up too late (but when have I ever drunk just enough wine and come home early when I hang out with them?). Reserve Ride the Zone bike at 1:30 am. Inappropriately update every social network status I have. In bed, throw a pity party of one. Sleep four terrible and tipsy hours. Wake up an hour and fifteen minutes before my alarm goes off. Hate life, hate life, hate life. Resolve to still go to Ride the Zone class because sometimes Kaitlyn has too much wine and she still makes it to RTZ to "honor her commitment to herself." Decide Grown-Ass Women go to the Church of Marion and pray she'll save them from themselves.

Class(es) Taken:
CYKO ZONE - Marion Roaman
Place:
Ride the Zone-Upper East Side
Date:
Tue, 08/24/2010 (All day)

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Character Building & Circuit Training

According to my August horoscope (Hi, Taurus, how you doin'?!), the cardinal cross of the planets will be task-mastering me into focusing on work projects and my physical and mental health. Decisions will be made. clarity will be achieved and bad habits will be broken. Since the universe seems to have a whole lot of character building in mind for me, I thought I would work on one of my bad habits: wussing out on exercise that sounds like it might hurt. I took msh's circuit, picked the exercise in each category that sounded the least appealing, and made myself do it. It looked like this, 3 times:

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All this family time means getting creative about exercise

Took my nephew to a water park today. Spending two hours tossing a 5 year old around a wave pool is hard work. My favorite was doing bicep curls by picking him up by the collar of his lifevest. Got a leg workout by pretending to be a mama duck & duck walking through the pool for 20 mins. And when he threw his little arms around me for a big hug while yelling, "I'm a zombie!

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i beat my my siblings up the big hill!

Greetings from Oregon! Got off the plane and went with my sister and her boyfriend straight to my great-grandmother's old estate, which she left to the State of Oregon upon her death and is now a state park. We met my brother and my nephew, ate watermelon, played tag and then hiked around the trails of the park.