Month: July 2010

  • Prostate-Cancer Screening Saves Lives

    Swedish Trial Finds Prostate-Cancer Screening Saves Lives But the 20,000-man study, published online by The Lancet Oncology, found that for every prostate-cancer death prevented, 293 men were invited to participate in the screening program and 12 were diagnosed with the disease. That circles back to the conundrum surrounding PSA tests — given that there’s no…

  • People always ask me what I do for a living…

    What does a community manager do? – Blog – The Intersection of Community, Communication and Content. Here is a good blog entry by another person who does Online Community Management for a living.  I am always given a hard time because I am on “Facebook” or about this blog. I do this for a living people.…

  • Finding the humor in the Big C

    A Friend’s Cancer: Good For Your Health?

  • Lunges rip me to the core…

    Today’s workout camp was not one of my best performances – The workout was just too hard – the combo of the heat and weights I lifted — let’s just say it was not good. Something about doing lunges just totally gets to my core — and almost brings me to tears. It mentally wears…

  • A Post to live by: Why I keep trying?

    Why I keep trying? — Roni’s Weigh. by roni I recently received a depressing email from an online friend. She amazingly ran her first 5k, started weight training and feels absolutely wonderful! However–and I’m thinking a lot of us can relate to this–She saw a picture of herself that set her back. She went on…

  • Starting it off right…

    Group training day – small group- 2 rounds of weight training and then a quick 2 station workout to end it.  I am sore from earlier this week boot camps which makes group that much harder — it’s a good sore but it’s sore nonetheless! warmup 200m run core x2 stability ball crunches stability ball…

  • It’s hot and humid!

    Let’s just say that today’s workout was not one of my favorites in that it was freakin’ hard. I think it seriously was one of the most challenging ones I have done in a very long time. Warmup side shuffle push-ups checkpoints skip jumps Core x2 partner ball toss 14lb dynamax ball hold and freeze…

  • Teaching Girls Programming

    Here’s a pic of Hannah and her partner working on a small basic training module on Sunday.  I wrote about it last week: Teaching Kids Programming Event. Although I think Hannah was a bit younger than the ideal age to introduce some of the concepts, it did spark some overall interest in programming. One the…

  • Don’t Forget – Tomorrow Michelle Obama Talks to AOL Health About ‘Let’s Move’ Website

    First lady Michelle Obama is speaking exclusively to AOL Health this morning about the relaunch of the website for her “Let’s Move” campaign. The first lady laid out her ambitious plans to combat the childhood obesity epidemic last February, calling on parents, educators and businesses to work together to help children eat healthier and move…

  • Oh what a beautiful morning…

    Great Morning – cooler than it has been, the sunrise was this beautiful pink color. As tired as I was, it was good to start back into the swing of things… Warmup x 2: rockette kicks forward lunges bounding backpeddle Core mountain climbers/heel to elbow straight leg/crunch lifts (i have no clue what these are…