I, like many avid runners, suffer from recurring injuries. Mine happens to be my iliotibial band (or ITB). By most estimates, more than half of all runners become injured every year. Some blame, particularly for ITB injuries, running on the one side of the road, a tight butt (not the good kind), o[...]
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February 19th, 2012 - 10:00 am § in Wellness
Sleep Rehab
I go through spurts where sleep just doesn’t come easy for me. Lately it has been when I am in NYC in the hotel and when I am there for a week, it completely wrecks me. A full 2/3 of Americans say they have trouble getting enough sleep at least once a week. It used to be [...][...]
February 15th, 2012 - 10:00 am § in Exercise
When You Just Need More Hours In the Day
It’s a common wish. More hours in the day to get everything you could possibly need to do. Experts tell us to make time for exercise, which is nearly impossible. As a busy working professional, it is really hard to make time. I already have things I must do in a day such as sleep, [...][...]
What if a machine dictated your menu?
What if you walked up to your fridge and it didn’t open because it knew you wanted ice cream? Instead it recommends that you grab an apple. As part of its LiVe public service program, Intermountain Healthcare has installed a fake, talking vending machine at Rose Park Elementary School in Salt [...]
February 8th, 2012 - 10:00 am § in Exercise
Back to Winter Training and a Giveaway
We have a winner! Using random.org the winner is Sara P. Please email me laney.cohen (at) gmail (dot) com. For whatever reason I thought it would be a great idea for my first half marathon in a year or so to be in March. Unfortunately, that means training in the dead of winter. When it [...][...]
February 1st, 2012 - 10:00 am § in Exercise, Workout Reviews
Revolve Cycle: Barre Ride
When I first moved to the Washington D.C. area I started searching for a cycle studio. The spin classes at my gym were great, but there was something special about walking into the a cycle studio. No one could recommend a good one or even knew of one to try. Luckily, a a little more [...][...]
January 25th, 2012 - 10:00 am § in Exercise, Workout Reviews
Yoga for a Cause: Lululemon’s Children’s Tumor Foundation Fundraiser
Last Sunday, my local Lululemon (Clarendon) hosted an in-store yoga session in support of the Children’s Tumor Foundation. The foundation is dedicated to improving the health and well being of individuals and families affected by the neurofibromatoses (NF). Neurofibromatosis encompasses a set[...]
Is Your Job Making You Fat?
If you’ve ever sat at your desk, eating left over pizza from the day’s earlier meeting for dinner, then you’d probably agree with the recent editorial in the journal PLoS Medicine that says, “Unhealthy eating could legitimately be considered a new form of occupational hazard[...]
January 11th, 2012 - 10:00 am § in Exercise, Workout Reviews
The Most Un-Yogi Yoga Instructor
Tara Stiles has been called the most un-yogi yoga instructor. I read in a NYT article last July that people in the inner yoga circles criticize her emphasis on yoga for weight loss rather than a lifestyle. For me though, her yoga practice makes me feel better and more centered than some of the other[...]
Exercise for how long to burn that?
Johns Hopkins recently conducted a very interesting study: displaying the amount of time you’d need to jog in order to burn off sugary drink calories may be the key to curbing intake. After introducing signs displaying either calorie counts, calorie counts as a percent of recommended daily ca[...]
