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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A Food Critic’s Quest for Fitness Glory
It’s Time for Hedonism in Moderation
It’s time for hedonism in moderation.
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Air Guitar: The Dumbest Workout You Should Be Doing
Put Down the Kettlebells, and Pick Up Your Air Ax
Forget CrossFit—the air guitar workout WORKS!
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The World of Alterna-Fitness!
Workouts and Regimens Designed
for the Easily Bored
Workouts and regimens designed for the easily bored.
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The Purrrfection of Cat Yoga
(Insert Joke Here About Downward Dog)
(Insert joke here about downward dog.)
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How to Run a Marathon Without Becoming a Fitness Bro
Can It Be Done? A Recovering Cross-Country Runner Investigates
Can it be done? A recovering cross-country runner investigates.