Time to Update Your Gym Outfit?Has a fair amount of time passed since you’ve bought new exercise clothes? It happens to the best of us.Photo credit: No idea. Hollywood, please don’t sue us!Where are the Weird Workout Wear War Stories?Many of you have …

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So alert readers may notice that the word “Giveaway” does not appear in the title of this post. WTF? It’s Friday, isn’t there supposed to be one?Grrr….Uh oh!Yikes, sorry!We do have some nifty giveaways in the pipeline, we think, but alas, not this …

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Contest* Our guest this week Judith Lederman is the author of Joining the Thin Club: Tips for Toning Your Mind After You’ve Trimmed Your Body (Three Rivers Press). The book contains tips for losing weight and keeping it off for good.
If ever there has been a time to get emotional, it’s been these past [...]

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Continue reading → Stock Market’s Down–So’s My Scale! Yessss!

Feeling’ a little restless and need to burn off some energy? Wouldn’t it be nice to have this waiting for you in your basement? Or, heh-heh-heh, your spare bedroom?Yeah, okay, we don’t actually mean Mr. Meaty here. We mean the Perfect Pull-Up, which…

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So congratulations, Azusmom, you are the winner in the MBT shoe giveaway!Please contact us before Friday night, Sept 26th (midnight EST) by emailing crabbymcslacker @ gmail dot com. If you happen to have your shoe choice, shoe size, and mailing info t…

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[By Crabby]We are big fans of walking here at Cranky Fitness. What’s not to like about walking? It’s cheap, relatively easy, entertaining, and very healthy.In fact, even though I’m generally a cranky ol’ crab, I seem to get unusually cheerful when bl…

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[By Crabby]First off, here’s the call for help part. (I’ll make it quick, ’cause I know what you really want to know is WHO WON THE SHOES??)Is there a reader out there who uses Windows Vista who would be willing to help us test out the new template we…

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[By Crabby]Cool, huh? These awesome Aetrex High Performance running shoes are up for grabs! Check ‘em out!By now, you know the drill. Details on why the shoes are so nifty and how you can win a pair can be found below, so Giveaway Skimmers, feel free…

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The hula hoop burst onto the scene in the 1950’s and it’s been a national pastime since. Most of us remember playing with them as kids, but by the time we get to be adults, we leave them behind. Little do most of us know that hula-hooping is actually very good exercise, and a whole [...]

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[By Crabby]First off, my apologies for a reduced web presence this week–yet again I am away from home, as I had a chance to join the Lobster on a business trip to New York. I love Manhattan! If anyone spies a confused crab jogging slowly around the …

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[By Crabby]Yes, this is indeed another Friday Giveaway Post–which will have three winners this week. So, Giveaway Skimmers, feel free to skip the Crab’s tedious snack food musings and head straight down to the nitty gritty instructions on how to ente…

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[By Crabby]And the winner of the Surfer Workout DVD is…Alice!(She totally predicted she was going to win, too. How’s that for positive thinking?)Please email us at crabbymcslacker @ gmail dot com with your mailing address.And thanks, dudes, for all …

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[By Merry] It’s Friday! And there’s a giveaway! What more do you need?Well yes, a surfboard and a good tan would be nice too…And it’s a holiday weekend, which is a definite bonus. All the more reason to celebrate!So what are you giving away?1 core tr…

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[By Crabby]Want some Tight Curves?Now before you skip down and find out what the heck we’re actually giving away, I’d be curious what comes to mind when you think about “tight curves.”Hmm…Or maybe…photo: Stefan TellOr lets see…Photo: sean dreilin…

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The Random Number Generator has spoken, and the winner of the Stability Ball giveaway is:Praying Horse!Please email Crabby McSlacker @ gmail dot com with your mailing address (and perhaps a name, unless your postal carrier can find you just fine with …

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[By Crabby]Yes, we have a big plastic bouncy thing to give away this week! Thanks, Sportsmith!Plus a little pump to go with it–because, alas, the balls aren’t nearly as useful when there’s no air in them. I know this first hand, because when our lit…

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So the two random winners of the “Why Diets Don’t Work Club” membership giveaway are:Claudia and… The Bag Lady!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(Note: I’m always excited for all our winners. But sometimes the Random Number Generator seems reluctant to land on some of…

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[By Crabby]For those of you who are trying to lose weight, especially those of you who have had a frustrating time of it, we have a cool giveaway this week:Two Six Month Memberships to the “Why Diets Don’t Work Club”.(And there’s also a free 75 minute …

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[By Crabby]So the two random winners of the Gym Soap giveaway are… (drum roll…)Jade and Caro!And the competition was tough for the most amusing and/or compelling plea for GymSoap. For some reason, Linteater’s tale of the stolen Kahlua sandals just…

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I have to confess I’ve always tended to be somewhat of a slacker in the “kill all the nasty germs” department.For example, I practice my own customized version of “the five second rule.” And when they show those shocking reports on tv about all the nas…

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As a reminder, my Soap & Water Giveaway Contest ends tomorrow night - I’m not exactly sure when I’ll have the time to close it off so get your entries in early if you can. So far I think I have about 20 contenstants each with a varying amount of entries.
In this contest I [...]

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Gosh, it was really hard to pick a winner with so many fine poems and haikus to choose from. And like in a horserace (albeit one involving very slow horses) there was even some last minute drama! Because I went ahead and picked a tentative winner yes…

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Continue reading → Cookbook Winners

[By Crabby]This week, we got cookbooks to give away! Two copies of Eat, Shrink, and be Merry to be precise, written by sisters Janet and Greta Podleski.(Note: I think they mean “Merry” in terms of “happy.” But who knows, perhaps if you make enough of…

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Continue reading → Giveaway & Poetry (?!) Contest

Jenn (of the tiny hula hoop/gym bunny ring toss). Sorry, other Jenns–of which there were several. As always, we love our commenters and wish everyone could win!So Jenn, please email at: Crabby McSlacker at gmail dot com to claim your Sportstep! (Not…

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I’m always looking for ways to give back to my readers, which is why I occasionally hold free giveaway contests. Being able to send a free bike valued at $400 to Mama Bear June was one of the high points on my blog this year.
This time, I’ve take a little different approach. I’ve [...]

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[By Crabby]You know how I’m always griping about going to the gym? Well, as many of you have discovered, if you have stuff at home, you don’t have to. Voila, no more sweltering temperatures or frustrating equipment or old people kicking your ass!So in…

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And the winner is…MJ!(Sorry, to all the not-MJ’s. But do not despair! We’ve got another cool give-away coming up Fri.)So MJ, please email Crabby McSlacker at gmail dot com and send us your mailing address by midnight EST July 17th and we’ll tell t…

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Continue reading → Hypnosis CD Winner

[By Crabby](Stare at the center… C’mon, we dare ya!)(Flickr photo credit)So, you wanna get hypnotized?We’ve got another Friday give-away, and this one’s pretty cool: your choice of one of 3 hypnosis CD’s by the folks at Performance Hypnosis.(And we …

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We sure wish we could give you all prizes every week–we love Cranky Fitness commenters! But we will keep trying to rustle up Friday give-aways whenever we can. We’ve got quite a few lined up, and hopefully the offers will keep rolling in, ’cause we’…

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• Fitness Equipment Gym, Workout Yoga Exercise Fitness

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[Posted by Crabby]Yes, it’s Fourth of July and if you’re an American you’re probably not here. You’re off at a picnic or a barbecue or a parade, risking sunburn, eating junky holiday food and waiting for it to get dark so you can watch the Ceremonial …

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Continue reading → Fitness DVD Giveaway and Gratuitious Explosions

So sorry we couldn’t give razors to everyone, especially after those awesome comments. But keep trying! There will be another give-away contest this next coming Friday July 4th (which we’ll run a little longer because of the holiday), and you will NOT …

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Continue reading → Give-Away Winners, and More Coming Up

[By Crabby]Cranky Fitness is always looking for new ideas to steal from other blogs mix things up a little. And we can’t help noticing that there are some other bloggers that are far ahead of us in the give-away department.As we understand it, our pal…

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Congratulations Zoe, it’s yours!Please email Crabby at crabby mcslacker @ gmail .com (all one word) with your mailing address and we’ll have the 24 hour fitness people send you your 90 day gift certificate.And if it turns out there’s anything funky …

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This one is pretty cool, because it appears to be a no-strings-attached gift certificate for 90 days at a 24-Hour Fitness gym.If there turn out to be Secret Strings? Let us know! We don’t want to be giving away Stringy Things. But the offer looks ve…

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• Fitness Equipment Gym, Workout Yoga Exercise Fitness

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There were 6 official entries in my first Twitter Running Story Contest. The rules were simple: Post a link to a Twitter page that told a story about running or walking in exactly 140 characters.
Here are the official entries in the order in which they were received:

Nick Cross wrote: It was -34 windchill and [...]

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The contest to win a free copy of my book ends on Friday at 6:00 EDT. That is also the deadline for the parent contest over at Copyblogger. The prizes over there have expanded quite a bit, so be sure to submit your story to both places. First prize has been bumped [...]

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If you were allotted 140 characters, including punctuation and spaces, could you tell an interesting story?
That’s the challenge that was thrown down by Brian Clark at CopyBlogger, a website devoted to improving your writing.
Can you tell a story in exactly 140 characters?
That’s the idea behind the first ever @copyblogger Twitter writing contest.
It should be a [...]

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Continue reading → Win my book or an iPod - A story in 140 characters

My Fuji Bike Giveaway contest had more entrants than I expected, a total of 29 entrants with 13 of you getting an extra entry for giving the post a Stumble. Thank you to all the entrants! The total value of the prize package was almost $500, which is nothing to sneeze at. [...]

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This past weekend, I held a contest to win 180 music downloads from the eMusic.com website.
The contest is now officially over, and if you entered then you had between a 5% and 10% chance of winning (depending upon whether you were one of the few people to both comment and link to the contest). [...]

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Continue reading → Patrick has won 180 free mp3 downloads!

There is less than a day left before I hold a drawing for the eMusic.com gift card…If you are interested in entering the contest, be sure to leave a comment on the contest article: http://news.runtowin.com/2007/10/05/180-free-music-downloads.html

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Continue reading → Less than a day left to win 180 free mp3 downloads…

It has been a while since I have given anything away, so this weekend I am going to give away a gift card for 180 music downloads at eMusic.com. I bought the gift card with the intention of giving it to my brother, but he got a job on a cruise ship and does [...]

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