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How's this for TMI? A friend sent me a text last week saying she was skipping out on our regular yoga date. She was a little embarrassed but admitted that she was feeling, "well, uh, gassy." For those of you who practice yoga, it's easy to understand why she felt like staying home. Passing gas during yoga class is not the most comfortable subject to talk about - or experience firsthand! Fitted yoga clothes, a quiet room, and poses that twist around your digestive area? It can be the perfect recipe for passing along an unwelcome gift to the people around you. I mean, yoga is all about letting go, right? But what do you do in this sort of situation: accept that your innards might get a workout too or stay home and avoid possible embarrassment?

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It's early in the morning, and Jeff Galloway is pumped to go running, but before hitting the pavement with his wife of 30-plus years, the running coach takes a bit of time to talk training with me. It's no surprise that runDisney asked Jeff, veteran of 153 marathons and counting, to be the official training consultant for its race series. Galloway wants to get America onto the streets and he has a plan to make it happen: the run walk philosophy. Walking breaks are inserted into every training run to prevent overtiring; this not only means you can run for longer, but walk breaks should also help keep injuries at bay.

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The gym rat is arguably the greatest rat of all. She's goal-oriented, strong, fast as a bullet, and knows the best order and time of day for working a room full of complicated machinery, pumping serious iron, and zapping calories. Has all your time sweating it out indoors turned you into a serious rat? Here are 10 signs you might be part gym rodent and a full on workout wonder.

1. You map out your daily workouts on your Google calendar and set it to send you a text reminder but never actually need the reminder. You're on the routine like a rat on cheese.
2. You know the gym staff's schedule. They know your middle name, job, and birth date.
3. You have a favorite set of dumbbells, favorite treadmill, favorite place to stretch, and so on.
4. You notice when a fellow rat wears the same shorts or tee in one week.
5. You've made up life stories for the other regular characters.
6. You regularly shun or reschedule social activities to work around your scheduled gym time. Your

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Dreya is currently playing Cleopatra at Teatro ZinZanni in San Francisco, a dinner cabaret show that combines live music, improv, and circus arts. On a recent Friday, I was invited to see the show for myself; I didn't know what to expect, but the whole production blew me away. Quite literally between a costume change, I had a few minutes to ask Dreya what she does to stay in such amazing shape. As an aside, these pictures are a far cry from how amazing she looks in person; Dreya is clearly one fit woman who takes

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• Plan a hike during the cooler hours of the day that will land you in one of your favorite spots. An hour of hiking could burn up to 371 calories - so indulge a little in a romantic and healthy picnic when you reach your destination.
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• Hoola hoop: Get the hips working and the quads engaged with a little hoola activity.
• Tetherball: If you can find a tetherball post, you'll remember how much fun it is while working out some arm muscles.
• Hopscotch: Break out the chalk and whip up a pattern on the driveway for a fun, heart-pumping workout.

Check out the rest and add your favorite to my list in the comments!

• Jump rope: Grab a rope and get jumping. The old rhymes may help you power through your intense cardio.
• Jumping jacks: Get ready to feel the burn when you jump into action with some jumping jacks.
• Dodgeball: Fire up a game of dodgeball with your

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First, think of your vices. Next, give one up. Don't worry, the challenge is only for two weeks! That's long enough for you to imagine your life without this thing, but not go too crazy. I'll be giving up meat - goodbye tuna nigiri, turkey burgers, and, gulp, bacon. But in the process, I hope to learn more about eating a plant based diet, cooking fantastic vegetarian meals, and letting my body "detox" from all that Summer grilling I did.

I challenge you, FitSugar readers, to Give It Up with me and shake an unhealthy habit of your own for two weeks. And there is no shame in what your vice is - or isn't. For some, it's smoking or that chocolate bar that they have to have every day. For

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