Day: March 30, 2010

  • 8 Core Workouts for Full-Body Fitness | Active.com

    Spending time targeting the muscles in your abdominals, lower back, and glutes translates into quicker acceleration, better form, and fewer injuries. “When the core is stronger, everything else is stronger, via 8 Core Workouts for Full-Body Fitness | Active.com.

  • Getting Kids to Eat More Fruit and Veggies

    There are some schools of thought (my Mom) that believe that teenagers should be self-sufficient and be able to prepare their own food. Well, anyone who actually has a teenager knows that is highly unlikely. So, I suck it up and do the 2 minutes of work for them knowing I feel better when they…

  • You can have Breakfast for Dinner!

    These days going out as a family is so friggin expensive. Even matinee movies are 9 bucks for an adult/7 for kids in the NoVa area. I also heard that they may go up even higher in the near future. That will surely break your bank. Any kind of freebie can help.   During the…

  • Zooma Women’s Race Series

    I read about this new series of races called Zoom from Mel’s blog – The Clothes Make the Girl and it sounds really interesting. Zooma Women’s Race Series is an exciting new concept in women’s running that celebrates the power and beauty of all women. From their website: Purpose is to promote women’s and girls’…

  • Deep Thoughts by Me

    I am actually warming up to the idea of the 5 minute stations — but in perspective, it’s week 3 so they tend to be a bit more of a reasonable ask than it was the first week. The Plumbline group was small again today but a lot of the regulars were there – so…