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September 22nd, 2008 — , Working Out, functional fitness, push-ups, upper body strength from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
Like many married couples, my husband and I have an agreed-upon division of labor. He (usually) takes out the trash and I (usually) do the grocery shopping. We mix and match tasks now and then, but for the most part,…
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Continue reading → Functional Fitness (Or, Why My Shoulders Are Sore Today)
September 18th, 2008 — , Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna, MizFit, Oprah Show, Tracy Anderson, Working Out, heavy weights, ligth weights from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
I happened to turn on the TV yesterday afternoon while I was prepping chicken for dinner and I caught Gwyneth Paltrow on the Oprah Show, talking about how hard she worked — and still does work — to get herself…
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September 16th, 2008 — , Mark Patinkin, Working Out, consistency., effort, fitness, improvement from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
I’m always looking for ways to boost my workout and this morning, while reading my newspaper, I came across this great observation from local columnist Mark Patinkin. He wrote, “If I’ve learned anything about sports, it’s that there’s a direct…
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September 15th, 2008 — , Dr. Michael Snyder, FullBar, Working Out, fitness, weight loss from none @
Hi, Everyone –
There are so many new and interesting ways to workout out there. Whether it’s working it on the Wii, yoga, videos or the gym, everyone seems to have a preferred way to pump iron. The most important thing is that you enjoy what you are doing so you will follow through and see [...]
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September 11th, 2008 — , ALS, Lori Hall Steele, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Lyme Disease, Motivation, Musings, Save Lori's House, Working Out, friendship from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
During this morning’s walk, as I pushed my body hard up a good-sized hill, my mind didn’t run its usual litany of complaints about pain or feeling tired or even “Why am I doing this to myself?” thoughts. All I…
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Continue reading → Appreciating Good Health…and Friendship
September 8th, 2008 — , Coffee, Exercise, Pavlovian respone, Science Daily, Working Out, calorie burning from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
Conventional wisdom says that water is the best post-workout drink, but it’s no secret that I don’t love it. My drink of choice after getting sweaty? Coffee. During my entire year as Shape magazine’s Weight-Loss Diary columnist, I’d drive directly…
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September 8th, 2008 — , Coffee, Exercise, Pavlovian respone, Science Daily, Working Out, calorie burning from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
Conventional wisdom says that water is the best post-workout drink, but it’s no secret that I don’t love it. My drink of choice after getting sweaty? Coffee. During my entire year as Shape magazine’s Weight-Loss Diary columnist, I’d drive directly…
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September 5th, 2008 — , Working Out, bicycling, fitness contradictions, smoking, workout mistakes from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
Every once in a while, you see something — or someone — at the gym who makes you want to run over and say, “What are you thinking?” You know what I’m talking about…bad form with too-heavy weights, slumping over…
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Continue reading → Fitness Oddities
August 28th, 2008 — , Working Out, cycling, double workout sessions, heavy weight, legs, momentum, mommy guilt, slow and heavy workout from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
Yesterday, I decided to go slow and heavy for my leg workout during my strength-training session. I haven’t done that for a while and I’d forgotten how hard it is (If you’ve never tried slow and heavy, it’s pretty much…
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Continue reading → A (Painful) Promise Kept
August 26th, 2008 — , Body Image, Softball, Working Out, baseball, fast pitch, pitching, throwing from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
A heated debate has been raging in our house this week about the use of the term T-LAG. As we sat down to a post-baseball practice dinner of pizza, my husband launched into an explanation of the mechanics of throwing,…
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August 20th, 2008 — , Staples, Working Out, connecting with kids, mothers and daughters, walking from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
Yesterday, I wrote about my frustration and disappointment when Monday’s evening workout plans fell through. But because I’m all about the yin and yang, I have to share what happened last night. My husband and son were off at football…
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August 19th, 2008 — , Cardio, Working Out, exercise plans, schedule interruptions from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
Don’t you hate it when your exercise plans don’t work out? Mondays are my dance class day and I was feeling pretty crummy yesterday, so I decided to strength train in the morning and skip cardio, knowing that I had…
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Continue reading → Foiled!
August 18th, 2008 — , Challenge, Dara Torres, Working Out, comfort zone, exercise intensity, fear from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
Watching the Olympics this week — and seeing all these athletes push themselves to the absolute limit — has got me thinking about the quality of my own workouts. My goal for August was to up the intensity on all…
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August 11th, 2008 — , Musings, Working Out, breakfast, calorie count, healthy snacks, outlet shopping, protein from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
This’ll be a short post today; my husband and I both have the day off from work so we’re taking off for what’s become an annual ritual — back-to-school outlet shopping. We make a day of it: We enjoy the…
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August 8th, 2008 — , Beijing, Nadia Comaneci, Olga Korbut, Olympic games, Working Out, gymnastics, uneven bars, vault from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
I am a geek of Olympic proportions. I admit it. Friends roll their eyes and clench their teeth, knowing they’ll have to endure me in the coming days. My children will start off enthusiastic, then quickly resort to whines of…
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August 6th, 2008 — , Working Out, building endurance, circuit training, hip pain, intervals, knee pain, running from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
It’s day three of my August campaign to kick my workout up a notch and this morning, I’ve already done an hour-long full-body weight and cardio circuit workout. My knees are quite sore from yesterday’s walk with running intervals, which…
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August 6th, 2008 — , HUT, Over -Training, Working Out, cutting back, viewer mail from MizFit @ mizfitonline.com
I’m a newbie at the miz fit blog, but I must say i’m definitely a fan. Thanx for all the tips and info.
Now, the question goes a bit like this (plus the added extra info so that you can see where I’m coming from and I can whine a bit).
I’m a 21 yr old female [...]
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August 5th, 2008 — , Biceps, Working Out, adding weight, chest flies, exercise intensity, intervals, lunges, running, shoulder press, squats, triceps from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
It’s camp week here and for a few blissful hours each day, the camp schedules of my children overlap, leaving me with time to not only work quietly, but to think, too! Yesterday, I got caught up on some straggling…
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Continue reading → Solitude and Soreness
August 4th, 2008 — , Emeril Lagasse, Shape magazine, Weight-Loss Diary column, Working Out, calorie deficit, healthy eating, intensity intervals, lean protein, maintaining weight loss from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
With the start of summer’s last month, I’ve set a new health and fitness goal for myself: In the now-famous words of Chef Emeril Lagasse, my goal is to kick everything up a notch. It’s not a response to the…
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July 30th, 2008 — , Resources, Working Out, almost fit, almostfit, fitday, fitness blog, health and fitness, high fructose corn syrup, links from Metroknow @ AlmostFit.com
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July 29th, 2008 — , Working Out, aging, balance, dance, dizziness, spins, spotting, turns from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
I’d love to write a witty, thought-provoking post today, but my head is spinning. No, I’m not hung over. I’m just feeling the after-effects of last night’s dance class. See, we worked on turns. And in my younger dance days,…
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July 29th, 2008 — , Working Out, aging, balance, dance, dizziness, spins, spotting, turns from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
I’d love to write a witty, thought-provoking post today, but my head is spinning. No, I’m not hung over. I’m just feeling the after-effects of last night’s dance class. See, we worked on turns. And in my younger dance days,…
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Continue reading → Stop the Room, I Want to Get Off
July 29th, 2008 — , Working Out, aging, balance, dance, dizziness, spins, spotting, turns from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
I’d love to write a witty, thought-provoking post today, but my head is spinning. No, I’m not hung over. I’m just feeling the after-effects of last night’s dance class. See, we worked on turns. And in my younger dance days,…
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Continue reading → Stop the Room, I Want to Get Off
July 29th, 2008 — , Working Out, aging, balance, dance, dizziness, spins, spotting, turns from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
I’d love to write a witty, thought-provoking post today, but my head is spinning. No, I’m not hung over. I’m just feeling the after-effects of last night’s dance class. See, we worked on turns. And in my younger dance days,…
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Continue reading → Stop the Room, I Want to Get Off
July 29th, 2008 — , Working Out, aging, balance, dance, dizziness, spins, spotting, turns from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
I’d love to write a witty, thought-provoking post today, but my head is spinning. No, I’m not hung over. I’m just feeling the after-effects of last night’s dance class. See, we worked on turns. And in my younger dance days,…
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Continue reading → Stop the Room, I Want to Get Off
July 28th, 2008 — , Champion of My Heart, Doga, Working Out, Yoga, dog training, dogs, emotional eating from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
It’s no secret that I adore my golden retriever, Colby, but I have to admit that I’m still amazed at what some dog owners will do. This morning, my local paper carried a front-page story about a new class called…
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July 23rd, 2008 — , Family Exercise, Shape magazine, Stress, Working Out, marital bonding, walking from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
When my husband reported — yet again — that he wanted to start exercising a couple of weeks ago, I did what any self-respecting wife who’s heard it all before would do…I nodded, smiled and said, “Mmm hmm.” It’s not…
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Continue reading → Stressed Man Walking!
July 17th, 2008 — , Working Out, heat, hot weather, intensity, interval training, sweating from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
I am so hot…and I don’t even mean that in a good way (I bet you thought this was going to be a body love post). It’s going to be 95 degrees here today — again! — and the mere…
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July 9th, 2008 — , Body Image, Dara Torres, Elizabeth Beisel, Motivation, Olympics, Working Out, fitness routines, middle-aged athletes, stretching, swimming from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
When I need a little fitness inspiration — and proof positive that aging doesn’t spell the end of athleticism — I look no further than to Olympic swimmer Dara Torres. The whole name thing aside (there just aren’t a whole…
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July 8th, 2008 — , Mental Fitness, Working Out, adult dance class, battement, fun fitness, jazz, pas de bourree from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
Last night, I finally gave in to one of my innermost desires. Now, I know what you’re thinking. But I’m talking about returning to my childhood love: Dance class. I’ll admit I was a little nervous as I walked through…
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Continue reading → That Dancin’ Feeling
July 2nd, 2008 — , Bosu, MizFit, Motivation, Working Out, beach workouts, leg lifts, playground workouts, push-ups, resistance training, running from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
Do you ever just not feel like working out? I know it’s essential for my body and my mood, but honestly, when it’s hot and humid and the sun is shining, I’d rather be here. This is where the kids…
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June 30th, 2008 — , American Gladiators, Ann Wertz Garvin, Beijing, Body Image, Fitness role models, Jet, U.S. Olympic team, University of Wisconsin, Working Out, swimming from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
I’ve talked before about my fitness role models (Check out the ripped form of Jet, one of my favorite American Gladiators. Yeah, I watch it…I’ve got a 10-year-old son) and how they inspire me to work harder. But according to…
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Continue reading → Inspired? Or Just Tired?
June 24th, 2008 — , 100 Push Ups challenge, Sagan, Working Out, full body push ups, muscle definition, upper body strength from Dara Chadwick @ Fit In Real Life
I ended yesterday’s post with a smart-alecky comment about how I love a good challenge. Sure enough, before the sun set, I’d learned about a special challenge opportunity, thanks to fellow healthy-living blogger Sagan. It’s called the 100 Push Ups…
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Continue reading → The Road to 100