If you read my blog, you know I love a good dance fitness workout. If you love them, too, you’ve gotta check out the ladies of and8 Fitness. Your instructors are twin sisters Danielle and Dominique Gillyard who, I just realized (as I’m writing and researching this post), are local to my area (they’re located…
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Workout of the Week: Podcast Walks
Recommendations for podcasts that will lift mind and spirit. These are great paired with a long walk.
Workout(s) of the Week: Pilates!
I love Pilates. In some ways, I feel that it’s my fitness spirit animal. Part stretch, part ballet and all core-focused, I’ve loved Pilates since I first tried it more than 15 years ago. I even became a certified Pilates instructor along the way (though I haven’t taught since having kids 4 years ago). Over…
Workout of the Week: 30-Minute Strength Training Workout with Ingrid Clay
I DID NOT want to work out on Friday. The struggle was real getting moving, but I’d intentionally slept in workout clothes the night before to give myself an extra push to exercise in the morning. I queued up this recently posted video on PopSugar since I was in the mood to do a workout…
Happy Birthday to Me: Five Days of Workouts during Birthday Week
“…this year, I did a pretty good job incorporating fitness all birthday-week long.” My birthday was a few days ago. If you believe what horoscopes say, I play pretty true to the definition of a Sagittarius: curious, energetic, philosophic and (mostly) extroverted with a tendency toward excess. Never is this more on display than my…
Favorite Workout of the Week: Super Tabata with Ranier Pollard
I managed to squeeze in a few PopSugar Fitness morning workouts this week. The one that was the most fun was this 30-minute “super Tabata” workout with Ranier Pollard. Tabata is a form of high intensity interval training – or HIIT – that revolves around bursts of all out hard work followed by a short…