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Getting Better One Step at a Time

  • Too Much, Too Soon This is the year! You’re going to get in shape, and you’re off to a running start! And the next day, ow, ow, you can hardly walk, and the stairs might as well be a fortress wall. It’s probably just benign soreness — common after doing a particularly tough workout or…

  • Fitness Motivationals There’s a lot of crazy messages out in the fitness world, welcoming pain and restriction, claiming that you can’t get better if you stay in your comfort zone. Sometimes it helps us reframe our assumptions if we deliberately do “something that scares us,” but that may not be the best way to begin.…

  • More Kettlebell Fun So you’ve got the kettlebell basics down, and you’re looking for more options. Check out this list from Greatist of 22 kettlebell moves. The list includes a mix of traditional kettlebell movements and other movements that are also familiar to dumbbell and barbell users. Kettlebells are versatile equipment — and easier to…

  • New Year, New Resolutions Or the same resolutions again, as the case may be! Here are a few articles from the past year about setting goals in a way that helps you succeed. I’ll be running a couple of more collections like this in the coming week. Set Good Short-term Goals — concrete, simple, accountable,…

  • “The Anti-Detox Diet” If you’re already comfortable in the kitchen and looking for something simple to start the year off with healthy eating, take a look at Julia Belluz’s Anti-Detox Diet. It combines a grocery list with meal-prep instructions to get you a week’s nourishing meals for a decent price. This plan works best for…

  • Happy New Year! How did you start 2015?

  • Merry Christmas! And to those who don’t celebrate Christmas, Happy Thursday!

  • How Is Gluten Trying To Kill You?

    Worth checking out! fakescience: Today we take a break from science fun for a serious quiz: How Is Gluten Trying To Kill You?

  • Holiday Vacation! I’ll be traveling for almost two weeks, so posting — if any — will be sporadic. Have a wonderful end of the year, and let’s meet back here in January! From the Go-Go’s “Vacation” video