Weds is my rest day — and I seem to be detoxing from the wheat/gluten. I’m super tired and fatigued and just feel overall sluggish. Kind of like not having a cup of coffee.

Getting in Shape—the Soldier’s Way – WSJ.com.

Instead of indulging in the holiday-season office cookies and after-work cocktail parties Kristen Silverman decided it was time to step up her already intense workout program.

The 35-year-old chief operating officer of Nandana, a private resort in the Bahamas, had been attending hour-long group fitness classes that mimicked the routine Marines go through in boot camp. Three to four days a week Ms. Silverman completed obstacle courses that included hurdles, monkey bars, a six-foot rope climb and six-foot walls to scale.