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Amazing Race Training: HIIT Workout

If there was one thing I learned from our time on The Amazing Race, it was how to get out of my comfort zone. If you watched the show, you know this included all sorts of challenges for us like…

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How We Got In Shape for The Amazing Race

The Amazing Race is a famously grueling show in which teams of two travel the globe conquering physical (and sometimes mental and emotional) challenges. In our mid-40s, we knew we’d be some of the older competitors. We wanted to be as…

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Working Out With Household Items

I’m not going to pretend to be one of those people who lives in the gym, but I was going at least three or four days a week before the pandemic. I love to run outside, but I would force…

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5 Retro Workouts It’s Time to Bring Back

I was raised watching my mom and dad pop in a VHS and do a workout in front of the TV. Sometimes (okay… rarely) I would join in, but since it seems everything from the 90s is coming back, can’t…

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5 Mind Tricks To Get Moving

There was a time in my life I entered 5Ks, half-marathons, even a half Ironman triathlon! For the record, I was never fast. Finishing was my only goal. But I loved the structure of training and the community created around…

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100 Things to Do While Waiting For Election Results

The act of making a list helps ease my anxious mind. Let’s be honest, on any normal day my lists even have lists. But today is no normal day. So I’ve made a list of 100 things to do while…

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Wellness

Creating an Exercise Habit

In my twenties, I worked out to get a butt like JLo. (Hot take: She won the genetic lottery. I could do 1000 squats a day and could never get a booty like that.) I never enjoyed my trips to…

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Wellness

Will You Take the Three-Day Challenge?

It’s time to put down the Quarantini.  Listen, friends. If this sudden, drastic change to your schedule has you feeling out of whack, you’re not alone. Welcome to this weird new world. Pull up a chair, we may be here a…

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Wellness

How to Deal with Isolation Anxiety

On a good day, when the sun is shining and everyone is healthy, my baseline mental state can be described as “barely hanging on.”  Anxiety and depression are constant companions and I fight like a beast to keep them at…

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