Guys, look at this. It made me laugh, for sure.Yes, running can be pretty lonely and coming home to this kind of, ah, support, would be great 🙂
If you want to add to the conversation, submit what Ryan says to you here: heyrunnergirl@gmail.com xxooSteph
Ryan Gosling for the Running Girl.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: BodyGlide, Runner Girl, running, Ryan Gosling
Here’s a story from Yahoo! today that is pretty cool, The Top 6 Workout Recovery Foods. After a tough workout, I am usually not hungry…and then about 45 minutes later I am RAVENOUS. Must…eat…now. Instead of reaching for a salty snack, go for the healthy options below. One thing I’d add is a protein shake – I make a mean one that I totally recommend (yummmmm.)
xxoo Steph
Top 6 Workout Recovery Foods
1) Whole Grain Cereal: You may have heard that you should eat carbs before a workout, which is true, but you should also consume them after as well. Carbohydrates can help your body fight the fatigue that it feels after a workout by restoring your glycogen stores. When you exercise, you are using up all of your glycogen stores (or energy stores.) It’s really important to replenish them after a workout so that you do not experience that sleepy feeling. Any carbohydrate snack will do but whole grains are always the best choice.
2) Cherries: Cherries are kind of like a magical fruit. They have many anti-inflammatory properties, which are really important for relieving muscle soreness. The antioxidant that gives cherries this healing ability is called anthocyanins. Many athletes consume tart cherry juice prior to workouts for this reason. Instead of popping that ibuprofen or Advil, reach for some nice, fresh cherries or cherry juice instead.
3) Nuts:Walnuts, almonds, brazil nuts — whatever kind of nuts you want. All kinds of nuts are very high in Vitamin E. This vitamin has muscle strengthening powers which will ultimately help to fight muscle soreness. Once you begin to get stronger, you will notice that you are not as sore as you were were when you first began training. When you have been training for a while, your muscles are stronger and you don’t tear the muscle as much as you did in the beginning. Less tears equals less soreness. Vitamin E also helps repair the damage that was done to the muscle tissue. Eat foods high in Vitamin E, like nuts, to help build that muscle strength…and keep training.
4) Berries: Berries such as strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries all contain antioxidants called polyphenols. These antioxidants are what protect your cells against damage. Aside from their ability to reduce muscle pain, they also help protect against all the other damages that can be done to our cells that can cause cancer. Generally, the darker the berry, the more antioxidants it contains so try to eat dark berries such as blackberries and blueberries. They are a healthy and delicious snack. You can even throw them into your protein shake for an added bonus.
5) Salmon: Fish in general is loaded with protein and a ton of essential fatty acids. Fatty acids help to reduce inflammation which in turn fights muscle soreness. Not a fan of fish? Take a fish oil supplement.
6) Eggs: Particularly egg yolks. Ignore the cholesterol factor. Eggs are high in protein and Vitamin D. Both of these two things help fight muscle soreness and aid in muscle growth. Vitamin D has become one of the biggest deficiencies in the American diet. It is really important to consume foods high in this vitamin, especially to help reduce muscle pain. Many people tend to get rid of the yolk of the egg because of the added cholesterol and calories but those calories in the yolk are all really good calories. They provide vitamin D and protein. Eat the whole egg. If you do have high cholesterol, try to limit yourself to a couple whole eggs a week and consume Vitamin D fortified low fat milk.
Overview: All of these foods are high in many nutrients and vitamins that your body needs on a daily basis in order to sustain life. They all have the ability to reduce muscle soreness and inflammation so it’s important to include them in your diet. Now, they aren’t really “super” foods. If you have sore muscles and eat some eggs, you aren’t going to automatically feel better but they will aid in the healing process. Aside from getting the right nutrients, it’s important to allow yourself some rest. Taking one to two days a week off heavy training will be very beneficial for body. If you are an exercise freak and need to get to the gym, take it easy. Do some light cardio or lift lighter. You really only experience soreness when you push yourself to your limits.
Posted in Uncategorized
This video makes me smile because it really shows the shift that has happened with women, especially younger women, and their attitude towards sports/fitness: instead of living in the self-imposed box of behaving like delicate flowers, women are allowing themselves to STEP UP and go hard.
In my lifetime, this change has been really pronounced. As a little girl, I was among the first females to be allowed to play baseball in my local Little League. I was the only girl on my team and the only girl to work her way up to the part of the system called the “majors.” It was tough and I was literally heckled by some DADS (“get that girl off the field!”) I was under serious pressure – girls were supposed to be cheerleaders not players – and swimming upstream was hard, but I hung on because I wanted to play. I can’t imagine the women in this video having any comprehension of this. It’s not of their world, and that’s progress. These women are doing their thing and are as strong as they want to be. They are way beyond being apologetic about it as they answer to no one but themselves. Love it.
They – or rather, we – don’t glow when we work out, we sweat. We don’t giggle and defer, we charge. We don’t hold back, we BRING IT.
And so, to the fella in the gym who recently told me I work out like a man, you got it wrong. I work out like an athlete. xxoo Steph
Posted in Inspiration | Tags: Little League, Under Armour
Concierge.com has thrown down the gauntlet and developed a list of World’s Sexiest Fitness Retreats.
I don’t know if these places are necessarily “sexy” (though you’ll feel so good in your own skin, and so happy with your body after a visit, perhaps the word “sexy” does apply.) For me, I’d call the list “Steph’s favorite places and more spots she is dying to visit.” Check out Number 4, for example, The Island Experience (pictured here. I think it’s Daniel, one of the yogis who works there, in the image. Lordy. I’ve climbed to that peak a few times, and just getting to the top a butt-kicker, let alone doing a “say what?!” Cirque Du Soleil move.) I like it so much I’ve been, um, 4 times! (Hello, my name is Stephanie and I am an Island Experience addict…) I’ve also been to Rancho La Puerta (slide 7 in the Concierge.com slideshow) and I can’t give it as rousing an endorsement – more like an “eh.” I much prefer Green Valley for great hiking. But, hey, folks love it and perhaps it is your dream spot.
For me, any healthy vacation is pretty much a fab vacation. Just taking the time to quiet your mind and to let your muscles do their thing is such a relief and a delight. I always come back from a fitness week away with bright eyes, glowing skin, a big smile and a better attitude. If happy is sexy, Concierge.com is right on. So what’s your next feel-good adventure? Any great ideas? I’m thinking Tulum or Machu Picchu, though Utah sure has a gorgeous spots, too. Gimme a holler – let’s go! xxxooo Steph
Posted in Adventure Travel | Tags: concierge.com, Green Valley, Rancho La Puerta, spas, The Island Experience
It's my perogative (to tell you): this Bobbi Brown stuff works
As I’ve mentioned before, I was a Beauty Editor at InStyle for years and it has taken me a while to rediscover any kind of girlie fascination with makeup after being buried in creams, potions and lipsticks so long (You’re soaking in it!, I’d laugh to myself…) I pretty much said goodbye to all that and moved over to Men’s Health to focus on abs and power foods and thought I’d never look back. That said, every so often – and these moments are few and far between – I stumble upon a beauty product that makes me a believer again, and when I do I want to tell you about it (sorry male readers – this post is probably not for you.) Here goes: Bobbi Brown Moisture Rich Foundation SPF 15 rocks. I just got it and I’m impressed. It doesn’t look like war paint when I put it on, and it gives my skin a dewy and smooth super-even look. (I wear Natural Tan, in case you’re wondering.) I’m not at all into heavy makeup and this is the first foundation I’ve used that does not feel or look like a mask. In fact, I feel downright fresh-faced when I wear it. And those crazy circles under my eyes that appear when stress and deadlines come together to create a perfect storm of puffy redness? It tackles ’em! So here’s to you, Bobbi. You’ve brought me around. In fact, I think I’m in love.
What do you love? What really works for you? There’s a lot of snake oil out there so if you’ve found something that rises above, tell tell tell. Thanks guys! xxoo Steph
Posted in Great Gear | Tags: beauty editor, Bobbi Brown, Bobbie Brown Moisture Rich Foundation, InStyle
Wow, check out this message attributed to Nike Women, though perhaps the product of someone’s fertile imagination. Either way, it is so, so, so right on! Love this, and one reason it really strikes me is it illustrates a sea change in the pressure imposed on women to conform to an unrealistic, skinny standard. This gal looks great; she is strong, her body fat is low, and yes, she has a bubble booty. Um, duh, that’s because she’s a woman and she’s built that way.
I remember when I was an editor at InStyle 10 years ago and had a startling conversation with one of the fashion editors there. She was saying she often hoped for a stomach bug as they are an excellent way to get extra skinny. Pardon me? I told her that sounded really unhealthy and…and she waved me off, saying “There is no such thing as too skinny. It’s fabulous.” Period. End of conversation.
Ralph Lauren ad from 2009. Lord above.
The fashion industry continues to support this thinking. Check out the infamous ad from Ralph Lauren (right) from 2009. The model was airbrushed so much she went from slim to anatomically impossible, and THIS was the image they placed in magazines and on billboards. Didn’t someone inside Ralph Lauren look at it before it was approved and say it looked a little funny (as in strange, not humorous)? No. To their fashion and marketing team, she looked GOOD. She looked ASPIRATIONAL. It took an outpouring of disapproval from bloggers and other writers – and a lawsuit from the model! – to get Ralph Lauren to take down the ad. Victory. Let’s keep images like this out of the mainstream media.
Okay, gotta go – off to Equinox to work out with Mez Alexandre, my killer trainer. I think Ralph Lauren Skeletor would last about ten seconds with him. I work out to get and stay strong, to feel alive. And yeah, if you happen to see me walk away, and if I happen to be wearing jeans, what can I say…bubble for days. And I’m fine with that 🙂 xxoo Steph
Posted in Inspiration | Tags: equinox, InStyle, Mez Alexandre, nike, Nike Women, Ralph Lauren skinny ad
The Minimus Crosstrainer from New Balance. J'adore!
I am kind of in love with my new sneakers. They are my new favorite toy. The freakishly light (and very cute) Minimus CrossTrainer, $85, from New Balance has changed my workouts. Wearing them is like being barefoot in the gym without any of the grossness that would involve, which means that when you do kettle bell swings or balance exercises or even burpies and leaps, you really feel your feet connect with the floor. This makes balancing easier – it makes everything more connected – than perching on top of a pound or two of the numb-you-out marshmallow padding that is the basis traditional running shoes. And isn’t losing extra padding one of the aims of working out?
Bottom line: these shoes are a wake up call for your feet. You suddenly remember you have arches, you have toes. Your calves activate, your quads activate. The best way to describe it is it brings an element of YOGA to weight training. You know that great feeling when you do a tree pose and feel your whole body act as one unit? That’s what you get. You feel light. You feel unfettered. You feel like you’re skinny dipping. And Zumba? Fuggetaboutit. LOVE LOVE LOVE.
Maybe these shoes are the gateway sneaker of the whole barefoot craze. I’m not ready to buy those kooky Vibram FiveFingers shoes for running, but the notion is not as out-there as it once seemed. Guess I’m hopping on the barefoot bandwagon. What can I say? If the shoe fits… xxooSteph
Posted in Great Gear | Tags: Great Gear Award, Kettlebells, Minimus, Minimus CrossTrainer, naked, New Balance, weight training, Zumba!
The coldest day of my life - and one of the happiest - on top of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Oh baby, it’s cold outside, but that’s not an excuse for bailing on exercising. That said, you do need to make adjustments for lower temperatures if you venture out. Below is a great story about exercising outside in winter , posted on active.com. Here are a few pointers from the piece:
So enjoy but button up! And when you’re done, have some hot chocolate – with all the calories you’ll be burning, you can afford it. xxoo Steph
WINTER AND EXERCISE By Nancy Clark, MS, RD
Some athletes embrace winter’s chill as a welcome change from exercising in summer’s heat. But others complain about hating cold weather.
If that’s your stance, remember that exercising with proper nutrition (and layers of dry clothing) offers the opportunity to chase away the chills.
After all, an aerobic workout can increase your metabolism by seven to 10 times above the resting level.
This means that if you were to exercise hard for an hour and dissipate no heat, you could raise your body temperature from 98.6 to 140 degrees F. (You’d cook yourself in the process!)
In the summer, your body sweats heavily to dissipate this heat. But in the winter, the warmth helps you survive in a cold environment. Runners can enjoy a tropical environment in their running suit within minutes of starting exercise.
Because food provides the fuel needed to generate this heat, the right sports diet is particularly important for skiers, skaters, runners and other athletes who are exposed to extreme cold.
This article addresses some common questions and concerns about winter and nutrition and offers tips to help you enjoy the season.
For safety’s sake, winter athletes should always carry with them some source of fuel in case of an unexpected slip on the ice or other incident that leaves them static in a frigid environment.
Winter campers, for example, commonly keep a supply of dried fruit, chocolate or cookies near by for fuel if they wake up cold in the middle of the night. You want to have an emergency energy bar tucked in your pocket, just in case.
Why do I feel hungrier in the winter than in the summer?
A drop in body temperature stimulates the appetite and you experience hunger. Hence, if you become chilled during winter exercise (or when swimming at any time of year, for that matter), you’ll likely find yourself searching for food.
Eating “stokes the furnace,” generates heat, and helps warm your body.
Food’s overall warming effect is known as thermogenesis (that is, “heat making”). Thirty to 60 minutes after you eat, your body generates about 10 percent more heat than when you have an empty stomach.
This increased metabolism stems primarily from energy released during digestion. Hence, eating not only provides fuel but also increases heat production (warmth).
Do I burn more calories when I exercise in the cold?
Cold weather itself does not increase calorie needs. You don’t burn extra calories unless your body temperature drops and you start to shiver. (And remember: The weather can actually be tropical inside your exercise outfit.)
Your body does use a considerable amount of energy to warm and humidify the air you breathe when you exercise in the cold.
For example, if you were to burn 600 calories while cross-country skiing for an hour in 0-degree F weather, you may use about 23 percent of those calories to warm the inspired air.
In summer, you would have dissipated this heat via sweat. In winter, you sweat less.
If you are wearing a lot of winter gear, you will burn a few more calories to carry the extra weight of layers of clothes, or skis, boots, heavy parka, snow shoes, etc. The Army allows 10 percent more calories for the heavily clad troops who exercise in the cold.
But the weight of extra clothing on, let’s say, winter runners, is generally minimal.
Why do I find myself shivering when I get cold?
Shivering is involuntary muscle tensing that generates heat and offers a warming effect. When you first become slightly chilled (such as when watching a football game outdoors), you’ll find yourself doing an isometric type of muscle tensing that can increase your metabolic rate two to four times.
As you get further chilled, you’ll find yourself hopping from foot to foot and jumping around. This is Nature’s way to get you to generate heat and warm your body.
If you become so cold that you start to shiver, these vigorous muscular contractions generate lots of heat–perhaps 400 calories per hour.
Such intense shivering quickly depletes your muscle glycogen stores and drains your energy. This is when you’ll be glad you have some emergency food in your pocket!
What’s a big nutritional mistake winter athletes make?
Failing to drink enough fluids is a major problem among winter athletes–hockey players, skiers, runners and winter hikers alike. Cold blunts the thirst mechanism; you’ll feel less thirsty despite significant sweat loss (if you overdress), to say nothing of respiratory fluid loss.
That is, winter athletes need to consciously consume fluids to replace the water that gets lost via breathing. When you breathe in cold, dry air, your body warms and humidifies that air. As you exhale, you lose significant amounts of water.
Some winter athletes purposefully skimp on fluids because urinating can be problematic–too much hassle to shed layers of clothing (ski suit, hockey gear, snow pants, etc.) Yet, dehydration hurts performance and is one cause of failed mountaineering adventures.
What’s best to eat to warm myself up?
If you become chilled by the winter weather, as can easily happen if you:
… the best way to warm yourself up is to consume warm carbohydrates–hot cocoa, mulled cider, steaming soup, as well as oatmeal, chili, or pasta. The warm food, added to the thermogenic effect of eating, contributes to rapid recovery.
In comparison, cold foods and fluids chill your body. Research subjects who ate a big bowl of ice cream in five minutes experienced a drop in fingertip temperature of 2 degrees F in the first five minutes, 5 degrees in 15 minutes.
In summer, this cooling effect is desirable, but in winter, hot foods are the better way to warm yourself. Bring out the thermos of soup!
Why do I gain weight in the winter?
Some people eat more because they are bored and less active. Instead of playing tennis, they are eating mindlessly in front of the TV.
For others, the change of seasons has a marked affect upon their mood (known as seasonal affective disorder, or SAD). Changes in brain chemicals increase carbohydrate cravings and the desire to eat more.
Holiday temptations also contribute to weight gain. A study of 195 people indicates they gained on average 0.8 pounds in the six weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s.
Overweight and obese people gained even more, with about 14 percent of the group gaining more than 5 pounds. The problem is, very few of the subjects lost those holiday pounds.
Hence, yearly holiday weight gain–that’s 8 pounds in 10 years–becomes a major contributor to America’s obesity problem.
One weight-management solution is to stay active in the winter. By investing in proper clothing, you’ll be able to stay warm from head to toe. You’ll benefit from not only being able to enjoy exercise but also from sunlight–a good way to battle winter depression (and attempts to cheer yourself up with food).
Winter exercise is an asset for managing health, weight and the winter blues. The tricks are to dress right, fuel well, prevent dehydration–and you’ll stay warm!
Copyright Nancy Clark, MS, RD
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: Active.com, CamelPak, Clarence Fahnestock State Park, cross country skiing, kilimanjaro, Nancy Clark, outdoor sports, winter sports
![[SP_GAY]](https://i0.wp.com/si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/PJ-BE605_SP_GAY_G_20120104193024.jpg)
Sweating is a good way to begin 2012. Exercise, like dark chocolate and office meetings that suddenly get canceled, is a proven pathway to nirvana. But if you’re going to join a gym—or returning to the gym after a long hibernation—consider the following:
1. A gym is not designed to make you feel instantly better about yourself. If a gym wanted to make you feel instantly better about yourself, it would be a bar.
2. Give yourself a goal. Maybe you want to lose 10 pounds. Maybe you want to quarterback the New York Jets into the playoffs. But be warned: Losing 10 pounds is hard.
The New Year’s push to lose weight is bringing crowds to gyms. Jason Gay offers tips to conquering the gym. Photo: Getty Images.
3. Develop a gym routine. Try to go at least three times a week. Do a mix of strength training and cardiovascular conditioning. After the third week, stop carrying around that satchel of fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies.
4. No one in the history of gyms has ever lost a pound while reading “The New Yorker” and slowly pedaling a recumbent bicycle. No one.
5. Bring your iPod. Don’t borrow the disgusting gym headphones, or use the sad plastic radio attachment on the treadmill, which always sounds like it’s playing Kenny Loggins from a sewer.
6. Don’t fall for gimmicks. The only tried-and-true method to lose 10 pounds in 48 hours is food poisoning.
7. Yes, every gym has an overenthusiastic spinning instructor who hasn’t bought a record since “Walking on Sunshine.”
8. There’s also the Strange Guy Who is Always at the Gym. Just when you think he isn’t here today…there he is, lurking by the barbells.
9. “Great job!” is trainer-speak for “It’s not polite for me to laugh at you.”
10. Beware a hip gym with a Wilco step class.
11. Gyms have two types of members: Members who wipe down the machines after using them, and the worst people in the universe.
12. Nope, that’s not a “recovery energy bar with antioxidant dark chocolate.” That’s a chocolate bar.
13. Avoid Unsolicited Advice Guy, who, for the small fee of boring you to death, will explain the proper method for any exercise in 45 minutes or longer.
14. You can take 10 Minute Abs, 20 Minute Abs, and 30 Minute Abs. There is also Stop Eating Pizza and Eating Sheet Cake Abs—but that’s super tough!
15. If you’re motivated to buy an expensive home exercise machine, consider a “wooden coat rack.” It costs $40, uses no electricity and does the exact same thing.
16. There’s the yoga instructor everyone loves, and the yoga instructor everyone hates. Memorize who they are.
17. If you see an indoor rock climbing wall, you’re either in a really cool gym or a romantic comedy starring Kate Hudson.
18. Be cautious about any class with the words “sunrise,” “hell,” or “Moby.”
19. If a gym class is going to be effective, it’s hard. If you’re relaxed and enjoying yourself, you’re at brunch.
20. If you need to bring your children, just let them loose in the silent meditation class. Nobody minds, and kids love candles.
21. Don’t buy $150 sneakers, $100 yoga pants, and $4 water. Muscle shirts are for people with muscles, and rhythm guitarists.
22. Fancy gyms can be seductive, but once you get past the modern couches and fresh flowers and the water with lemon slices, you’re basically paying for a boutique hotel with B.O.
23. Everyone sees you secretly racing the old people in the pool.
24. If you’re at the point where you’ve bought biking shoes for the spinning class, you may as well go ahead and buy an actual bike. It’s way more fun and it doesn’t make you listen to C+C Music Factory.
25. Fact: Thinking about going to the gym burns between 0 and 0 calories.
26. A successful gym membership is like a marriage: If it’s good, you show up committed and ready for hard work. If it’s not good, you show up in sweatpants and watch a lot of bad TV.
27. There is no secret. Exercise and lay off the fries. The end.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: DailyBurn, Jason Gay, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Real Housewives, The Bachelor, treadmill workouts, Wall Street Journal
Hally Berry, not slowing down at 44. Lordy. She does strength training and kickboxing.
I was in Equinox the other day, doing push-ups and kettlebell swings with my trainer, Ian, (he is also my frisbee guru, pictured in this post) when he happened to casually mention, “You know that what we’re doing is the Fountain of Youth, right Steph?” Ah, pardon me, what? Sorry, I don’t believe in Santa or the Tooth Fairy, or Ponce de Leon’s magical elixir, for that matter.
Turns out, though, Ian’s claim is not hocus pocus. He may be a jock, but he is also secretly a science geek. He’s working on his Master’s of Applied Sports Physiology at Columbia (stats, labs, research…) and he has hard medical research to back up his statement. Lots of research, in fact. As wild as it sounds, exercise, especially circuit training and weight training, slows down the body’s aging process.
I’ll break it down for you. I got these facts from the Tufts Health and Nutrition newsletter, an excellent resource. Here’s some of what exercise does in relation to age. The benefits are almost shocking they are so amazing.
Jennifer Lopez, 40, does circuit training. Abs!
But you already knew all of this, right? What you may not know is that when women reach their mid-30’s and early 40’s, we naturally begin to lose a quarter pound of muscle a year. That slows our metabolism and weakens us. But evidence indicates that if we do strength and resistance training, just once or twice a week, we can stop or reverse this loss. This is important to understand so I’ll repeat it: working out stops the body’s tendency to fall apart. Awesome!
Pro triathlete Joanna Zeiger won an Ironman at 40...and keeps getting better.
In fact, muscle builds on itself over time – you keep ramping up and getting stronger. As my friend (and incredible athlete), Jeanne Meyer, likes to tell me, the hardest age division for female triathletes when they race is the 40’s – they have the best time overall (fastatfourty). Take that, nubile 20 year olds! Again, awesome.
Here’s more: exercise slows aging on the chromosomal level. As we age, our DNA strands start to get ragged and frayed at the ends and this means our skin wrinkles, eyesight and hearing start to fail, our brains slow, organs crash – OY! – I am getting dry mouth just writing this. The great news is that exercise has been found to slow this breaking down process: twins were compared, and the one who did three hours of activity a week was found to be 9 years younger biologically than his/her sedentary sibling. Read this story for more: Exercise – aging, Washington Post
-We need to rethink aging: A lot of our perception of aging has to do with inactivity. We think we need to stop moving as we age and this leads to, well, more inactivity. This couch potato behavior builds on itself and muscles weaken, tendons tighten, flexibility goes and the day comes when you pick up a tennis racquet or go for a brisk walk and your body fights you and YOU FEEL OLD. An inert body will slow down, and this rate quickens as you age. The lean muscle you lose will naturally be replaced by fat (my dry mouth is coming back…). “Move it or lose it” really does apply – do nothing and the downward slope of the graph is not pretty. We take ourselves out of the game…and we shouldn’t and don’t have to.
The great news – and I do mean great news – is that it is never too late to get your groove back. An oft-quoted study shows that inert 90 year olds who BEGAN resistance training in their nursing home showed an average improvement of 30% more muscle mass in 8 weeks. WOW. A number were able to ditch their walkers and walk unassisted for the first time in years. If immobile 90 year olds can get the spring in their step back, imagine what that means for the rest of the population?
What does this mean for you?
A lot of women can’t find their strength. They think they never had it or they lost it or it’s just too hard to reconnect with what was once inside them. Well ladies, it’s there, waiting for you. So take yourself out for a spin. You’ll enjoy the ride. xoxSteph
Posted in Fitness & Health, My Favorite Posts: Deeper Water | Tags: abs, aging, circuit training, equinox, halle berry, health, Ironman, jeanne meyer, jennifer lopez, Jennifer Lopez abs, joanna zeiger, muscle, research, science, sports, the fountain of youth, triathlon, Tufts Health and Nutrition Letter, Washington Post, youth
Tuck Takes Off 
Comments: Let’s talk!