Category Archives: Fitness & Health

Olympian slams Piers Morgan’s trolling tweet about medals

“You win or you lose. Gold is all that matters,” he said.

His comment didn’t go well with some, notably English swimmer Chris Walker-Hebborn, who competed at the 2012 Olympics and in Rio this year.

Let’s just say he didn’t hold back any punches…

Source: Olympian slams Piers Morgan’s trolling tweet about medals

If you want to flame him, be my guest.

It’s true, ‘Pokémon Go’ is becoming a fitness craze

It turns out that there’s an amazing side effect to joining the ranks of the millions now addicted to Pokémon Go: better health.

Fitness tracker Jawbone UP claims that users of its fitness band who also mentioned that they used Pokémon Go logged a whopping 62.5 percent more steps this weekend compared to their steps taken during a normal weekend.

Source: It’s true, ‘Pokémon Go’ is becoming a fitness craze

As someone who is a runner, I can confirm this thing is like Ingress — encouraging you to go to new places or making you treat pokestops and gyms as milestones – which is great for interval training. I’m running circles around my local area, stopping by at three different pokestops each loop :)

Currently Level 12 with about 251 pokemon caught, 47 unique ones seen, and 47 active in my bag.

Check out my Back & Core session on FitStar!

I finished a 16 minute @FitStar Session and burned 169 calories with 105 seconds Jumping Jacks
http://fit.ly/1SCcbf8

Check out my Arms/Shoulders & Legs session on FitStar!

I finished a 13 minute @FitStar Session and burned 118 calories with 45 seconds Muay Thai Kicks
http://fit.ly/1rfqEXN

Check out my Chest & Core session on FitStar!

I finished a 14 minute @FitStar Session and burned 139 calories with 25 Half Pushups
http://fit.ly/1T3Ddf1

Marathon Records

How many marathons have you run? Could you do more than one in a year? How about a month? A week? This old article from The Telegraph (and recently showed up on Oddity Central at http://www.odditycentral.com/news/man-runs-370-marathons-in-one-year-proves-nothing-is-impossible.html) shows a guy running *370 marathons in a year.*
The most I’ve seen a woman run was 366, and that was Annette Fredskov (http://blog.endomondo.com/2013/08/09/how-annette-fredskov-ran-366-marathons-in-365-days/)
 
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/11561584/My-childhood-abuse-spurred-me-on-to-run-370-marathons-in-a-year.html
Source: http://blog.endomondo.com/2013/08/09/how-annette-fredskov-ran-366-marathons-in-365-days/

10 things no one tells women before they run the London Marathon

Source: 10 things no one tells women before they run the London Marathon

Surprisingly a couple of these made me laugh.

#5 you’ll get penis envy. Actually, it’s not a good thing – especially if you forget to wear tight pants. Trying to run around the park with your little friend trying his darnedest to distract you is definitely not fun. Funny, yes. Uncomfortable? Damned so.

#6 you will become a running bore – guilty.

#10 you will want to do another one – yes, but not yet. The atmosphere when I ran the RPHM was electric. I want to experience that again, but not yet.