Tag: Exercise
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Aerial Yoga: Whut?!
5 things to know before you goI found myself one Saturday morning walking briskly over to Fly Freak Yoga for an introductory course in aerial yoga. It was a chance to spend some quality time with my old friend Renee, and also get some much needed exercise while visiting family back in Minnesota. When she upped the ante to my yoga…
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Pro-Tip Tuesday:
Alt Uses for a Water Bottle While on the Road 2Here’s one from my significant other’s mountaineering class. I froze my ass off camping in in Bryce Canyon so you don’t have to. While camping, you can fill a large nalgene (or other water) bottle with hot water before bed, and put it in your sleeping bag for extra warmth all night! If you find the…
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Pro-tip Tuesday: a Remedy for Sore Muscles Apres-Board/Ski
Food the Wong Way has involved a healthy dose of outdoor activity this winter, including a fair bit of snowboarding and snowshoeing, which historically has been hard on my knees and back. My friend Katherine recently talked me into going with my local German pub Prost on a ski bus, so despite appearing to have…
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Mountain Monday: Snowshoe On Mount Rainier
Happy Lunar New Year! Any additional comments on lunar new year from me will be in some other post. I spent all my energy cleaning the house and hosting hot pot Saturday for it, no more juice left for an obligatory entry here for now. Instead, here’s one that started as a video and grew into…
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The problem with competing against yourself..
Wellness Wednesday: Week 2 Recap of Sleep Goals First, let’s make that previous target more specific:* average 8 hrs’ sleep Second, methods: Getting off my phone a bit beforehand, switching to reading a book or staring blankly at the roku tv. Rescheduled watching Vikings to dinnertime. Start reading a book on sleep for more ideas based…
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Pro-Tip Tuesday:
How to Fit More Gym Clothes in Your BagDid you make a resolution to get active and work out more this month? Are you feeling frazzled trying to stuff all your exercise clothes in a gym bag so you can work out before your commute home, but kind of favoring that “Old Bag Lady” (or Old Bag Gentleman) look in the process,…
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Tricking Yourself into Exercise:
Recipe for an Active Day on Two Wheels with City FruitI really wanted you to know this: Apples most likely originated in Kazakhstan from the Malus sieversii and brought over to America with European colonists then became a part of American culture with a little help from Mr. Appleseed himself, John Chapman. Around the turn of the 19th century, Johnny Appleseed bought some apple seeds…
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Exercise vs Food: which one wins?
Per the poll a while ago, random musings on exercise vs. food was one of the high-ranking elected topics. Honestly, folks, I got a little stuck on this one.* Apparently, I felt two ways about this enough that when I went back to try and finish this post, I discovered my Past Self (she’s more…
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Cranksgiving Seattle 2013
In the last few years, through a dramatic health-related life event, I have (a)become a little more acutely grateful of being alive at all, and (b)felt a more urgent need to put in the time investments now to ensure a longer and healthier life. So in that vein, after the unhappy consequences of Reduced Sugar…