Fitness Fixation on Shine

On Tracy Anderson and Michelle Obama's arms

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Oh, we live in a wacky, wacky world. Didja know Tracy Anderson is opening up a gym in NYC? It only costs an initiation fee of $1500 for a year plus, um, $900 a month. Oooh, wait, hold on: Bllleeeuuughhhhh. Spit. Wipe. Yes,…

Class reunion countdown: I admit it, I want to look hot

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I got the first email about my 20th year high school class reunion on the same day that I saw that this website, Hot By BlogHer, launched. Coincidence? I think not.

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User Post: Just in time for some holiday or another: Presents for active people

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Whoa, are the holidays over? Well, then it's time for the "FF Top 5 Fitness Gifts gift-giving guide to things you could give to the exercisers in your life" aka the FFTFFGGGTTYCGTTEIYL. (If you say that acronym out loud, you will incidentally be making the noise I make when I do experience muscle fatigue and fall down into the fetal position and just rock.)

Yes, this comes direct to you on your computer or other web-surfing gadget, culled from other people's timely holiday gift guides, just days too late to be any good to anyone! But if you must know, it's really just an excuse to riff on some stuff, and anyway, if you see anything you like you could buy it for yourself or return the Baywatch Beach workout tapes you got in exchange for some of these beauties. So here we go! Let's count down backwards, just like we did for last seconds of the New Year.

Wassup with the Pink Patch?

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I was thinking to myself the other day (I occasionally do have actual thoughts, you know) that we don't do enough for our young girls. I mean, yes, we rear them on a steady stream of unusually thin actresses, musicians, and models, with hardly any size diversity in evidence (and the thin-only...

Skinny is soooo last year, healthy is now

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Skinny was bad back then too. From

Kim Kardashian can't lose the booty weight

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Dearest Kim, Heya, just browsing through US magazine, my go-to source for fair and balanced coverage of your hiney. And I read this: "I love that I'm curvy, but I'm on this...

Why you may never have a six-pack

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Okay, I feel very truth-y today, and I need to tell you something. You may never have a six-pack. Or maybe more accurately, a visible six-pack. And I mean you could work your booty off, eat a real healthy diet, and still never get one. I mean, you might, but again, you might not. Are you mad now? Is...

Five exercises to tackle the Mom-Flap Challenge

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You know of this mom-flap? A.k.a. the spare tire, the c-section remnant roll, the muffin top. Crabmommy, who coined the term, is tired of hers and she has issued a challenge. Five minutes of abdominal exercises daily to banish the flap for good. She put out a call to her readers, and is now on week...

Put those guns away before you get us all killed

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The whole idea that girls may not be strengthening their legs because they are torn between wanting to play a sport and yet look like they don't (i.e. be un-muscled and not "thick") made me totally sad. How lame that girls have to feel the pressure to have bodies that are skinny...