Once again I find myself in the group fitness studio, this time standing over a refreshingly simple pile of equipment – no bells, no whistles, no tubing or rubberized widgets, just a good old-fashioned yoga mat and a towel. (I have absolutely nothing against the more exotic implements of fitness I’ve been employing recently but [...]
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If you’re anything like me then when you were younger a particularly slippery floor made for a great excuse to cast off sneakers and slide around with reckless abandon. Sadly, as we grow older the opportunities to act like a kid hopped up on corn syrup are fewer and further between. So, it is with [...]
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I’m in the group fitness studio at Crunch’s 90 John Street location; on the floor to my left rests a pair of 5 lb. dumbbells; directly in front of me is a miniature trampoline, one that I’m going to get intimately acquainted with very soon; the class is called Resistance Rebounding”. Before we start the [...]
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To start, a very brief recap: Recently Crunch held it’s first-ever Gym Shorts Film Contest, a contest that asked regular folks from all walks of life to offer up their own brief interpretations of just what No Judgments means. Over 200 entries were submitted; from those entries 30 finalists were culled; and, from those finalists, [...]
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A confession: I am very particular about my power bars. There are only a few brands – and within those brands, a select group of flavors – that I like to eat. So, at the gym the other night, I found myself faced with a difficult conundrum in that I was famished, in need of [...]
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Have you ever wanted to take a group fitness class that combines yoga with martial arts? Or, have you not ever thought about it before but with me having just put the idea in your head, decided that a class like that sounds awesome? Well, if the answer is yes on either count then allow [...]
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Standing in the group fitness studio, waiting for my first-ever Weigh Hard Cardio experience to get underway, I’m expecting a challenge. Sure we’ll be using the itty-bitty weights, the ones that seem harmless enough, the sometimes brightly colored, sometimes foam-padded one, two and five-pounders, but I now know enough to know that that doesn’t mean [...]
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Not being good at something, not knowing exactly what you’re doing when you’re doing it can be discouraging. Many of us have tried our hand at something that has a bit of a learning curve – tennis, guitar, chess, demolition work etc. – and un-tried our hand just as quickly when the frustration and embarrassment [...]
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There is something that seems innocent about a ball. Especially when it’s big and bouncy and soft. When that ball is filled with a modest amount of sand, once you get past the hmm-there’s-sand-in-this-ball factor, it tends to remind you – or reminds me at least – of the beach, of summer outings spent frolicking [...]
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Of late, I’ve been thinking about how there are parts of my gym experience that I’ve sort of dismissed as non-events or, if not dismissed, never really even thought of as being part of that experience enough to dismiss in the first place. I mean sure, these things happened in the gym but they weren’t [...]
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