This past weekend, I stayed home just as much as the previous weekend, and I was still just as alone at home. (Well, alone with Sesame!) But my attitude was so different this weekend… and it was a good one. I started the day by jumping right into my workout before anything else: a 60 minute yacht rock spin class with Jenn Sherman. These days, I’m used to doing an ab workout and walk with Sesame before my real workout, so I {Read More}
Weekend Recap: Filling the Time
April 4, 2020 by 2 Comments
On Tuesday, I hosted a virtual happy hour for one of my teams at work. I had everyone fill out a survey of silly / interesting questions ahead of time, then we guessed who gave which answer. It was a lot of fun! One of the questions was, “If you could have any superpower, what would it be?” Whenever I’ve been asked this question in the past, my answer has always been, “the ability to freeze time.” In the last {Read More}
Class Review: Pound Fitness
March 1, 2017 by 2 Comments
The last few Saturdays, I’ve been going to a trendy new workout class that’s a ton of fun: Pound Fitness. I first heard about Pound Fitness several years ago, but never had a studio offering it near me… until now. Two months ago, I saw it on Classpass and immediately knew I wanted to check it out. I assumed it would be primarily a cardio class, so scheduled it after a 5K morning race – figuring it would be good to burn {Read More}
October Goal Check In: Week 2
October 25, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Week 2 of my (delayed) October challenge is now in the books, and I did pretty well sticking to my workout a day plan! (And my butt is feeling pretty sore to boot.) Here are the ClassPass studios I tried in the last week: Brendle at TruFit: I didn’t really know what this class was, which was why I was excited to try it. Basically, a simple bootcamp that was to-the-point but unimpressive. We rotated through six different stations with {Read More}
Why is hiking so different from stair climbing?
October 7, 2015 by 4 Comments
Not sure if I’ve posted about this before, but I bought a Fitbit Charge HR about a month ago, thanks to my new team in Dallas. They pretty much all wear Fitbits, and they have “Work Week Hustle” challenges every week to see who can get the most steps in Monday through Friday. I have to admit, I haven’t paid much attention to the leaderboard (last week I won and didn’t even realize it till after the fact?) – though I think {Read More}
The Perfect Fall Weekend
November 3, 2014 by 8 Comments
Wow, this weekend could pretty much have not been more perfect. What an awesome Halloween – and two fabulous days after! As I mentioned in my Friday post, I had a lot of different costumes for Friday. The one you did not get to see before, though, was my eveningwear: as a zombie flight attendant! Unfortunately, I did my makeup in my (very bright) bathroom… and while it looked pretty green and black and sickly to me in that mirror, {Read More}
Reconnecting With My Childhood Passion
September 3, 2014 by 13 Comments
Lately, I feel like I’ve been hearing the same advice over and over about discovering what you’re “meant to do”: think back to when you were a kid, and rely on the instincts you had then. In fact, on Lewis Howes’ School of Greatness podcast (which I love and you should start listening to), he gets even more specific: think back to when you were 14-16 years old. That’s the time of your life when you’re mature enough to make good decisions, and {Read More}
Review: Flybarre Texas
October 14, 2013 by 12 Comments
The last week has been a very strange one for me. I traded in my office in Dallas for a courtroom in NYC (jury duty!) followed by conference calls and videochats from my living room. I was selected for Grand Jury and therefore had to defer for a few months, since Grand Jury requires three hours of service every day for four weeks, and that won’t work for my current client, where I need to be on site to prepare {Read More}
Studio Review: Bodybar Dallas
October 2, 2013 by 5 Comments
About a month ago, my friend Blake told me about a great trial offer at a Pilates/barre studio in the Dallas area – Bodybar. New clients would get a week of unlimited classes for free! A free week would be the perfect way for me to try everything they had to offer (with different classes, instructors, etc to get a good feel for it), so I jumped on the offer. However, I also wanted to pick a week when I {Read More}
Workout/Review: Leap Like a Puma! (Puma Formlite XT Ultra Fluo and Performance Bodywear Tech ACTV Long Tights)
August 12, 2013 by 2 Comments
The following post is sponsored by FitFluential LLC on behalf of Puma. As a marathon runner who goes for long distance and needs support, before this summer, I haven’t had much occasion to try out lightweight racing shoes. But after reviewing the Mizuno Wave Sayonaras a few weeks ago, I was excited when Puma offered to have me try out their new shoes, the Formlite XT Ultra Fluo Women’s Training Shoes. Just as with the Wave Sayonaras, the Formlites stunned me {Read More}
