We’ve been working on putting up my new fitness website: Freal Fitness. Actually the webiste is about more than just exercise, looking hot on the beach, and having muscles galore. It’s about helping people have the best, happiest, healthiest lives possible. Therefore it’s FREAL. We’ve come to the point where it was time to move the [...]
Archive for August, 2010
20 Aug
A Mushy Run
I went to this fabulous concert the other night – Rodrigo y Gabriela at the Greek Theater in LA. I was introduced to them by John and Liz, two people that used to attend my outdoor fitness classes. We were using great guitar music in one of our workouts, they suggested I give these two a listen. [...]
20 Aug
Life-Saving Sports-Bra
Okay, take a look at that picture! Yeah, that one of me doing my best imitation of a Jillian Michaels’ pose.What driver would not see that loud, colorful sports-bra coming down the road?? I wore that thing on purpose – so I would be noticeable and finish my run alive, in one piece, and untraumatized. [...]
19 Aug
A Dog’s Point of View
Please welcome my guest-blogger, and first-time blogger, Romero. He insisted he needed to tell Tuesday’s story. Keep in mind, he is a dog. A very cute, very adorable, but not so smart, dog. I knew it was time . . . my favorite time. My mom, Rachel, started putting her hair up in a ponytail. [...]
17 Aug
Pushed by the Hill Runner
That was one tough workout. My friend, Laura, I really pushed ourselves with the All the Way Arounds and the Countdowns. Of course, I had to tweak the Countdowns a bit to make them different from last week’s workout. So instead of DB Bear Crawls we did Man-Makers. We did 10, then 9, then 8 [...]
16 Aug
A Day Without a Cellphone – On Purpose
Ahhh, Sunday morning. This was a different sort of Sunday for Shauna and I. See, we have been on this journey to live more simply, more peacefully, less hurry-hurry, bizzy-bizzy (yes, I do know how to spell), less multi-tasked and ultra-productive. To that end, we made two big decisions in the last 24 hours. Turn [...]
15 Aug
Cement Running Shoes
Had a crappy night’s sleep last night. I knew I had to get up ridiculously early this morning so I went to bed early like a good girl. Then, just after I’d fallen asleep, the phone rings. Ugh! I hate that. It wasn’t even anything important. The call lasted maybe one minute, but it woke [...]
13 Aug
Day of the Feet
I woke up yesterday morning, staggered into the bathroom, and did my morning ritual. The last part of that ritual is to step onto the scale. “Shit!” What the hell? How did that happen? I give myself a 5 pound window of acceptable weight. The numbers that appeared on the scale showed the highest number [...]
12 Aug
Pinche Rachel
It was a soccer workout day yesterday. After doing a bunch of fun bodyweight exercises, it was time to play. Since it was just 3 of us, it was time for Rotating 1v1s. Whooo-hoooo! One my favorite ways to play. Laura, one of our expressive workout buddies, is a newbie to soccer, but she’s loving [...]
11 Aug
Looking Down on a Bowl of Cotton Balls
Well, I did it again – just bigger and better this time. I was back running Gibralter Road this morning – that gorgeously, torturous and challenging uphill climb. I don’t know how you call what we did a “Hill Run” when we gained more than 3,000 feet in elevation. That sounds (and felt) more like [...]
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