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Looking cute while working out just got a little easier, girls! Remember the old days when your only choice for keeping your hair off your face and the sweat out of your eyes during a workout was a John Wayne-like bandana or the Olivia Newton John terry cloth number? (Let’s get physical, physical. Let me hear your body talk. Your body talk!) The good news is, I’m getting ready to share with you a little secret about how to also get your head to talk right along with your body during those workouts!
Headbands have gone through a revolution. They had an uprising against ugly and won big time! You can see evidence of their victory in my new discovery. They’re the latest recipient of my award for products that help us live my motto: play like a boy, but look like a girl while you’re doing it!
Even after I recommended that everyone buy a running skirt in my I’m Too Sexy For My Running skirt article, I was still not sure I wanted to take my love public by going for a “real run” in one. So when Runningskirts.com sent us a running skirt to review, and Michelle volunteered, (see her review soon) I thought, phew. I’m off the hook. Until I realized the running skirt was only one of their skirt offerings. There was still the athletic skirt to review!
So, not only did I have to go running in this thing, I had to do other forms of exercise, as that is what it is designed for. I wondered if I’d be embarrassed wearing it. I thought about waiting until dark to run so no one would see me in it. Not because it’s not cute. It is. But I’m still not used to the concept of a skirt for sport.
All you *f.a.t.tys (Fit After Thirty Hottys) have been asking our opinions on some products and apparel. What a *f.a.t. girl asks for, she gets! We’re giving you more product reviews, ladies! So I thought I’d start November by talking about one of the staples of every fitness wardrobe - workout pants!
Now that we are headed into colder weather and you’ll be working out in shorts less often, it’s time for you to get yourself a flattering pair of pants you can wear to the gym or for outdoor activities. I am addicted to my lululemon Groove Pant (straight leg style).
Before discovering this brand and style, it seemed like every pair of workout pants I owned was missing one of the key elements that make for a great set of pants. I could never seem to find an attractive pant that made my rear look good without blatantly displaying the opposite side of me in the form of the dreaded “camel toe”.
Michelle’s the big time runner around here, so how did I get relegated to do the running skirt review? Well, I assure you I did not volunteer. A coin flip and I lost. You would think that I would jubilantly embrace this assignment considering that I have a personal philosophy that women should proudly display and enjoy their femininity during sports, even while competing as fiercely as a man.
This belief is why I play soccer in my pink cleats and pink headband. This is why I buy lululemon fitness wear. This is why Florence Griffith Joyner, with her long, colorful fingernails was my hero after her performance in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Rest in peace, Flo Jo.
So why would I resist running around in a mini skirt? Hell, I’m even prone to thigh chafing on runs over four miles, so if anyone should welcome the running skirt with open legs, (so to speak), then it should be me!
However, as you know from reading my tech gadget posts, I tend to resist things I don’t understand and downright shun things that confuse me. And, well….the running skirt does both.But lucky for all of you, I also love learning, so although I was not yet willing to sport the skirt out on a run along the strand, I was ready and able to research it for you AND take a lap around Sport Chalet in the thing. (I know. I know. I’m very much a slow to commit, toe in the water to see if it’s cold, kind of girl! What can I say?)
Okay, f.a.t. sisters I have a couple new gadgets to tell you about that will aid you in your running and other workouts. And since I’m not quite as gadget-phobic as Suzy, I volunteered to do the research on these babies!
The Garmin 405 Forerunner is now on my Christmas list. A running friend of mine just got one so I was able to check it out a bit. With this watch, you can track your speed, pace, mileage, calories burned, and distance, and it weighs about as much as a handful of nickels. No more. No less.
My friend and I were having a debate the other day, about Self.com, but before I give you the details, let me set the stage a little. Remember the old Ally McBeal episodes where Elaine would accuse Ally of getting “snappish” with her? David E. Kelley invented the adjective that every woman could relate to, and applied it to scenarios when one character was being a little too bitchy in conversation. Snappishness was a fundamental part of Ally and Elaine’s relationship. The same is true for my friendship with this particular friend. We love each other, but snappishness is an accepted and appreciated component of how we relate to one another.
I think it stems from my inherent inability to verbally edit out unimportant details when I speak, thereby causing a hunger for the same amount of detail from others, and her natural desire to dole out information in small fragments, requiring a near cross examination to complete a story. In fact, remember that Navy admiral POW (Jeremiah Denton), in Vietnam who blinked with his eyes, in morse code, the word TORTURE in his forced television interview? (Neither do I, because I wasn’t born yet, but I have a vague recollection of the movie about it)
You know how sometimes you’ll hear a news story that you know must be a joke, and so you do a reality check in your mind on what day of the year it is to verify whether it’s April Fool’s Day?
And after said reality check, when you realize it’s nowhere near April 1st, you seek out the original source to see if it falls into the category of credible, or if instead, it came from one of those spoof web sites? (And you hope it did, because you hate the story so much that you don’t want it to be true)
Well, that happened to me last night. And after it happened, I had to chug a glass of wine and contemplate my increasing loss of faith in humanity, and my burgeoning suspicion that half of my own gender might be certifiably insane. Are you ready to hear the story? Get your wine and have a seat.
A few weeks ago, I talked to a friend who was explaining that her waning motivation to eat as healthfully as she probably should, stemmed from her genetics allowing her to stay fairly thin without really trying that hard. She also said that her love of comfort foods always seemed to override her desire to eat leafy greens.
“Unfortunately, macaroni and cheese and Hamburgers are more comforting than a plate of spinach.” She said.
Ever the smart ass, I said, “I wonder if cancer and heart disease will be more comforting than longevity and vitality.”
After giving me her best “Die, bitch!” look, she informed me that something that might happen far into the future wasn’t enough to motivate her, and I realized that this is probably the reason why most Americans still are not consuming the recommended daily intake of fruits and vegetables. It’s just too far off to impact most people’s daily decisions. But if you want to be a Fit After Thirty Hotty, consumption of your veggies is a necessity.
Have you heard of FitFlops? Oprah had them on her favorite things show, apparently, and many of my friends are debating whether to get a pair.
They are supposedly some high tech, fitness flip flops that sound too good to be true, because the structure of the shoe is supposed to tone legs just by walking in them. Call me a doubting Tomasa, but isn’t that what plain ol’ walking does for your legs, anyway?
I can imagine the board meeting strategy session behind the product: I got it! Let’s make people think the toned legs they get from walking around a lot is due to the magic powers we put in our shoes. They’ll forget the fact that walking a lot in any shoe will tone legs!! Genius.
When I was little and my grandma visited from out of town, my mom made a point of buying a special kind of milk for her. When my siblings and I would go to the refrigerator to get milk to pour on our cereal, my mom would say, “don’t drink grandma’s acidophilus milk.” My sister and I jokingly called it poisonous milk.
As a kid, not only could I not pronounce it, but it just sounded gross, so my siblings and I steered clear without ever truly understanding what acidophilus was.
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Looking cute while working out just got a little easier, girls! Remember the old days when your only choice for keeping your hair off your face and the sweat out of your eyes during a workout was a John Wayne-like bandana or the Olivia Newton John terry cloth number? (Let’s get physical, physical. Let me hear your body talk. Your body talk!) The good news is, I’m getting ready to share with you a little secret about how to also get your head to talk right along with your body during those workouts!
