Month: September 2010

  • Award Your Own Genius Grants – Harvard Business Review

    via Award Your Own Genius Grants – Julia Kirby – Our Editors – Harvard Business Review. Love this idea. Especially creative departments and industries that really require innovation and forward thinking….need to incorporate time for their employees to be infused and ignited. They produce better ideas and can feel free to innovate.  So many companies…

  • Another Rainy Day Workout

    I love rain and all — but this is ridiculous! Although for boot camp — I am happy it was pouring. We can’t workout in the pouring rain because Mikey doesn’t want his equipment wet, oh and for our safety.  We can workout in a slight drizzle, mist and light rain but pouring is out…

  • Fit Families

    I gave a presentation today called ‘Creating Fit Families’ to help inspire and support parents as they do the same for their own families.  Someone asked me what are some exercises/fitness activities you can do if you don’t have a lot of money or you can’t really leave your house. Well — many of the…

  • Thanks, Tim Gunn

    This is a quote from Tim Gunn, of Project Runway Fame — And it rings true in my experience and I find that i need reminding of this from time to time — so thanks Tim! Take the high road. You will never regret it. No matter how much anger and strife you feel you’re…

  • Rainy workout

    Another rainy morning and I thought for sure we would be inside for today’s workout. It was pouring on and off — but oh no — As Nate has said before – ‘rain can’t stop the Hoaglunds’! So we did some modifications to the workout to accommodate – swapped in tabatas and push ups instead…

  • The where is Kanye when you need him workout

    Sometimes the rain isn’t such a welcome sight — especially at 5a when you know you will be doing your outdoor bootcamp in it!  So I woke up and headed to camp hoping it would POUR so that we would be forced to be inside, but no such luck. And it was more misting than…

  • Fitting in a workout

    Here are just a few of the pics from yesterday’s Plane Pull — our team raised more than $2500 for VA Special Olympics and although we didn’t win – we did great considering we were one of the only teams comprised mainly of women. We pulled a 1200lb plane in like 8.6 seconds.  It was…

  • Team Plumbline Dulles Plane Pull

    A few pics from today’s Team Plumbline Dulles Plane Pull — was a really fun event for a great cause  – VA Special Olympics.

  • Signs You’re a Gym Rat

    Signs You’re a Gym Rat. Although I am not a ‘gym rat’ per se — My boot camp group and I certainly know which dynamax balls are lighter than the stated weight, which jump ropes are easier to use than others, and which spot gets you out of the glare of the sun — oh…

  • Original Fitness Nut Jack LaLanne Approaches 96

    As the Original Fitness Nut Jack LaLanne Approaches 96, He Says He’s Still ‘A Nut’. How awesome is Jack LaLanne? 96 years old, still fit, still exercising…. (Sept. 23) — When you’re turning 96 and still as fit as a fiddle, people are invariably going to ask your secret. Ask fitness pioneer Jack LaLanne his…