Just a Gen X girl in the world
Monday February 6th 2012

Posts Tagged ‘exercise’

Good morning, good morning

Good morning, good morning

I'm one of those annoyingly chirpy morning walkers. I bounce out of bed, down my three espressos, lace on my shoes and I'm off--all bouncy, smiley for my walk. (I am fully aware that the three espressos may be a contributing factor to my upbeat [...]

Yoga isn’t really that hard

Yoga isn’t really that hard

Oops my secret is out. Celebrity personal trainer Matt Roberts believes that the rise and rise of yoga as exercise is because it's not very hard. Dearie me that's going to upset a lot of yoga types. Not me, because I've known that all along. Yoga [...]

Fat hair

Fat hair

I know why the weight has been slowly creeping up on me. It's my bloody hair's fault. Now before you think I'm just going all blame happy here, someone who has important initials after their name put the idea in my head. US Surgeon General Regina [...]

7 things you may be doing every day that are making you positively ancient

7 things you may be doing every day that are making you positively ancient

Quite recently I've taken up running. On the treadmill. My knees are too dodgy to handle the road. Old sporting injury I'd like to say but mostly it's cause I've got weak ankles and spend my whole time wearing totally unsupportive shoes. Anyway [...]

Ommm, did someone fart?

Ommm, did someone fart?

Someone let go a fart at yoga the other day. In an everyday situation it would probably have gone unnoticed, because it was a discreet, very lady-like fart, except this was a yoga class and we were all very, very quiet, concentrating on our [...]

Get Real Yoga

Get Real Yoga

Yoga and pilates are the trendy kids on the exercise block. What's not to like. They calm, relax, do killer stuff for your abs and you don't even need to wear gym shoes. I love yoga. Have been doing it on and off for 20 years. I like how it [...]

Jane Fonda’s abs porno

When I was a mere slip of a thing, back in the 80s, me and every other Gen X girl had a copy of Jane Fonda's workout video--and it was a video, no DVDs back then. I spent hours playing that thing hoping for Jane's awesome body and a whole lot less [...]