Tag: fun

  • Joining the Circus As you think about ways to make exercise fun and engaging, how about running away and joining the circus? The circus once meant sideshows and animal acts — with perhaps indifferent safety and ethical considerations. Today’s circus productions are generally focused on dramatic and other performing arts, a movement that gathered steam…

  • YUKON DO IT This is also the name of an event that holds several road races, but I think this is just a charming one-off. There are a few other Yukons on the road with this addition, too, sometimes from a Nike “Just Do It” decal. Anyway, YUKON!

  • Clif and Luna The rest of the love story at “Rachel Lives Here Now,” by Rachel Lindsay

  • Conventional Wisdom and Its Discontents The fitness and weight-loss worlds are full to the brim of “do this! not that!” advice, “one true way"s, and weirdly counterintuitive claims. Here are some closer looks, a little math, and some ways to separate the general strategies (like "eat less, move more”) from the day-to-day tactics that make…

  • Give me a minute… Cartoon by Drew Dernavich, published by the New Yorker in April 2014.

  • Image from iguanamouth

  • Finding the Exercise That’s Right for You If you haven’t exercised regularly since physical-education class in high school, the idea of getting started can sound frankly awful. Fortunately, being active is a lot more fun — and can easily be far better personalized — than those grim tests and dodgeball sessions in the school gym.…

  • “Our tallest president was also our most shredded by far.”

  • Happy New Year! How did you start 2015?