Diets are over! We’re not doing them anymore! SochAnam/Getty Images Yesterday Huffington Post‘s Highline dropped a beautifully researched long form piece by Seattle journalist Michael Hobbes explaining the grand misconceptions we—but more importantly our m-f-ing doctors—have about the health risks associated with obesity. From the article: About 40 years ago, Americans started getting much larger. […]
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The Wonders of Working Out with Weed
What Do Fitness Experts Say? What Does the Science Say?
What do fitness experts say? What does the science say?
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Free Self-Defense Classes at Bridgetown Aikido
Free self-defense classes for teens and adults
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A Food Critic Finds Fitness
It’s All About Hedonism in Moderation
Andrea Damewood learns about hedonism in moderation.
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Food Critic Fitness Update: The Human Slingshot
It finally happened. I finally crawled off the floor of StudioX Fitness and marched right next door to Baby Doll Pizza, in my pink and sweaty glory, and had myself a slice. Granted, it was in the line of duty: I was trying their upcoming super slice for Pizza Week. But despite such transgressions, I […]
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Food Critic Fitness Update: I Can Do a Push Up!
It’s not a good sign when you walk in for your personal training session to be greeted with the question: “Ribeye steak AND wine?! Where’s my whip?” However, it is a sign that you are in for a rough workout, and that steak and wine will be rattling around while you try and row 250 […]
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Food Critic Fitness Update: Send New Pants!
In the next few days, I’m going to have a very fit human orbiting my midsection with a measuring tape. Happy Valentine’s, Damewood. Here’s an update on how things have gone since I launched my quest for fitness glory. It turns out, I am always hungry. Even when I’m not, there’s a certain “I could […]
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Kegels: Maybe Only Do ‘Em if You Want! (Or Never!)
Or, I Asked a Nurse Practitioner a Bunch of Weird Questions About Pelvic Floor Physical Fitness
Or, I asked a nurse practitioner a bunch of weird questions about pelvic floor physical fitness.
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Exercise Is Not Going to Fix Your Body
But Biomechanist Katy Bowman Says Movement Might
But biomechanist Katy Bowman says movement might.
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Tips for Winter Hiking In and Around Portland
Just Because It’s Winter Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Go for a Hike
Just because it’s winter doesn’t mean you can’t go for a hike.
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Sweat, Rewind, Repeat
Getting Fit on the Cheap with Classic VHS Workouts
Getting fit on the cheap with classic VHS workouts.
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A Food Critic’s Quest for Fitness Glory
It’s Time for Hedonism in Moderation
It’s time for hedonism in moderation.