Some of you moms have already emailed me to let me know you entered the fitness getaway/product launch contest, sponsored by Ammo Marketing, that I introduced yesterday. But in case you missed my article, I’m going to re-cap for you.

The opportunity will allow two lucky moms to try out a fitness video game similar to Wii Fit and report their experiences with it. I’m extremely excited about more fitness video games entering the space, but I’m especially excited that it has the involvement of Bob Greene, Oprah’s trainer!

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I am so excited to be able to deliver this information to all the Fit After Thirty Moms out there! I have found a truly great opportunity for two lucky moms to jump start their fitness goals with the help and inspiration of Bob Greene, Oprah’s trainer, while helping a video game company launch a fitness product!!!! This requires no purchase of anything, and is not a gimmick to get you to buy the product. I assure you of that!!!!

Moms must live in the Los Angeles area and be willing to communicate with the media about their experience, and if you are chosen, Fit After Thirty will provide you with the forum to do just that! 

Ammo Marketing, a San Francisco-based company, is currently working on a fitness-based product launch, and are conducting a search for two moms between the ages of 25-45 by Wednesday, February 11th, 2009. As of yet, they have still not found the right moms!

If you are a woman who does it all for everyone else, but might need a little help taking care of herself, this opportunity is for you!  

Click here for all the details and to enter. If you prefer reading the details on our site, keep reading:

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One of the reasons Fit After Thirty exists, is to help encourage positive and healthy attitudes in women, about their bodies. A healthy approach to body image starts in the mind.

Whether someone needs to lose weight, gain weight, or just improve health on the inside, she must do it with self-love and a positive attitude. Although a lot of women in America need to lose weight, a great many of women think they need to lose weight, even if they don’t. Some of this body dysmorphia stems from the unrealistic images that bombard women everyday in print media and on television.

Our culture’s fame-obsessed media machine spins women in a vicious cycle like lab rats on a wheel, one day feeding us photos of unattainable airbrushed perfection, and the next, blasting the airwaves with stories of a pop star’s weight gain which amount to nothing more than public ridicule, while purporting to be news. The message is clear: regardless of how beautiful or talented you are, if you look like this, you are accepted; but if you look like that, you are not. 

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Now that we’re one month into the new year, I thought it would be a great idea for everyone to take inventory of their progress toward their health and fitness New Year’s Resolutions. Some of you may feel like your motivation is waning, and your enthusiasm is wearing off.

So, over the next couple of weeks, I am going to be sharing a few book recommendations with you, that may help get you back on track toward your goals to achieve a new you, or just keep you informed on how best to achieve a healthy lifestyle. 

With Valentine’s Day approaching, let’s think books over chocolate when thinking of what to get your mom, sister, best friend, or even yourself! Okay, maybe a small box of chocolates, because we are women, and I certainly can’t preach what I am not willing to practice! A girl needs some chocolate now and then! (Especially after her team loses the Super Bowl, but I’ll save “Chocolate As An Antidepressant” for another article.)

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You may not have the time to dance three and a half hours per day, as professional cheerleaders do, but you can do some of the other fitness training that they do to increase stamina, endurance, and strength.

Here are some exercises taken from the boot camp fitness regimen that the Cowboys Cheerleaders do. These can be done at home. Each should be done for one minute without stopping. Do the circuit twice. Use 5-to-10-pound weight.

• Ab twists with weights


Sit on the floor with with knees bent. Slowly lean body back into a 45-degree angle and use abdominal muscles to bring feet off the ground. Hold a dumbbell with both hands in front of your chest.

Twist at the waist, bringing dumbbell to the left of bent knees. Smoothly twist back to the left, hands rotating weight to the opposite side.

Keep legs up off the ground throughout the exercise.

• 7-ups


Lie on back, cross hands behind head, extend right leg long and cross left foot over right knee.

Simultaneously bring right knee (with left foot still crossed over knee) toward chest and raise head and shoulders up and forward to meet bent knee. Contract abdominal muscles. Next, simultaneously lower the leg (left one is still crossed), and lower head and shoulders, keeping them an inch off ground. Repeat without resting, alternating sides.

More ab exercises

• Sky crunches with dumbbell


Lie on back, extend arms above head, holding a dumbbell with both hands. Place legs up in the air.

Reach arms straight up, while lifting shoulder and head approximately 3 inches off the ground, exhale as you contract abdominal muscles. Relax shoulders down, keep arms with weight still reaching upward. Head is still off the ground with abdominal muscles engaged. Repeat without resting.

• Butterfly crunches


Lie on back with hands behind the head. Bend knees and cross ankles keeping knees out wide, engaging abdominal muscles, chin to chest.

Crunch forward, bringing elbows to knees. Slowly, lower head and legs to starting position but don’t let either knees or head touch the ground.

• “Rocky” sit-ups


Lie on back with knees bent. Hands are in fist position, resting on your chest.

Raise your upper body forward to a vertical position. Punch arms across body in a one-two combination from right to left before lowering body back down to the ground.

• Scissor crunches


Lie on back with arms extended behind head and hands touching, forming a point. Lift straight legs two inches off the ground.

Kick right leg straight up toward the ceiling while bringing both hands together to touch your foot. (Legs are in a scissors position — hence the name.)

Slowly lower your right leg back down two inches from the ground and lower arms behind head. Repeat on other side.

Super Bowl Sunday is tomorrow, and I’ve noticed that when it comes to the big game day, women seem to be divided into two camps: those who do, and those who don’t. (Watch it, that is). 

I fall into the watcher camp, because not only do I like football, but this year, my hometown team, Arizona, is actually in it! But even if you are a gal who doesn’t like football, there are some great reasons for you to love the Super Bowl, and tune in tomorrow. Here are my top 10 reasons for chicks to dig the Super Bowl:

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In light of Jeremy Piven’s recent hospitalization for mercury poisoning, I thought I’d dish on fish today. The health benefits of fish are widely recognized, but it is important to understand the dangers as well.

What we know about Jeremy’s situation is that he was eating sushi twice a day, which undoubtedly contributed to the excess mercury levels in his system.

According to the FDA and EPA, it is safe for the average adult to consume 12 oz. (2 meals) of low mercury fish, and 6 oz. (1 meal) of high mercury fish per week. If the fish is locally caught by friends or family (non-inspected, non-regulated) then it is even more important to stick to these weekly quantity limits. 

The fish that are most likely to contain high levels of mercury are Shark, Swordfish, King Mackerel, Tilefish, and Albacore tuna. For pregnant women, women trying to conceive, nursing women, and children, it is best to avoid high mercury fish all together. Fish that are low in mercury are salmon, pollock, shrimp, and catfish.

Back in January, in New York, (where Piven has been acting on Broadway) reports exposed a serious problem with tuna sushi found in both stores and restaurants. The reports indicate that even just six pieces would put a person’s levels above what is considered safe. Other reports have surfaced in the last few years about other cities’ mercury levels in tuna. Moral of the story: no matter what city you live in, eat wisely.

For a list of symptoms of mercury poisoning, go to Buzzle.com

For information on detoxifying your body when mercury poisoning in suspected, go here.

For more cartoons like the mercury fish, go to Culture Life News.

I would be remiss if I didn’t give a plug to the new book by my favorite *f.a.t.ty (Fit After Thirty Hotty), Alec Baldwin. (You may remember my September article in which I professed my immense respect and lust for the man). For those of you who missed today’s interview on Larry King (with Joy Behar of the View, filling in for Larry), I have your update here!

And to those of you who are still on your high horse and wanting to crucify Mr. Baldwin for his angry voicemail that hit TMZ a year or two ago, then go do some abdominal crunches while I talk to the rest of my *f.a.t. sisters. No, on second thought, be a tad open minded and keep reading, so I can enlighten you on how Fit After Thirty and Alec Baldwin are related. 

If you don’t like Alec, it’s worth watching for no other reason, but to confirm once and for all that if Joy Behar can get paid to interview people, then any of us can! She tops some of  her out in left field statements on The View with more idiotic responses and veers so far off track at times, that she makes a drunk truck driver look like the damn Welcome Wagon in comparison. (My favorite: bringing up lesbian couple-parents to argue a point Alec made about girls with no paternal presence in their lives relative to the heterosexual divorce and parental alientation issue being discussed). 

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I hear there are some amazing transformations of some contestants that have gone from fat to *f.a.t.!!!! You may want to tune in for some inspiration, gals!