Topic: exercise

Ways Your Breasts Are Giving You Black Eyes

Ways Your Breasts Are Giving You Black Eyes

Here is an advertisement that, at first glance, seems completely idiotic. It’s for a company called Nod and a Wink and seems to imply that a woman’s breasts are giving her black eyes as they fling themselves about on the tennis court. “How?” I thought to myself, “How would breasts do that, as breasts are made out of flesh? Even if I tried to fling one of my breasts head-ward, I don’t think it would give me a black eye?” But, you know, then I thought about it, and I suppose there are some ways you could get a black eye from your own breasts. Namely: More »

10 Things That Happened When I Tried A Pole Dancing Class

10 Things That Happened When I Tried A Pole Dancing Class

I feel like every time I pick up the Daily Mail I read about a woman who is losing weight by pole dancing. Every time. It appears all they have to do is go in and they are losing weight and swinging their bodies around the pole like a spider monkey. I thought maybe it would be fun to write my own article about things that happened when I tried a pole dancing class at my gym. This happened: More »

Welcome To Ironside Fitness

Welcome To Ironside Fitness

INT. DAY. GYM.

Assorted WOMEN in workout clothes climb stepping machines in the background. A LUNKHEAD benches carefully in the free weights area. A class of PILATES ENTHUSIASTS unrolls their mats as a smiling YOUNG WOMAN steps into view and addresses the camera.

WOMAN
Welcome to Ironside Fitness.

She walks past a middle-aged woman concentrating on a set of lat pulldowns and gives her a high-five. More »

You Can Get Fit In Four Minutes?

You Can Get Fit In Four Minutes?

I am adding a question mark after, “You can get fit in four minutes” because I am fairly certain my high school gym teacher told me that you don’t really begin losing weight until your heart rate increases, which takes around 20 minutes. It’s weird that this is the one thing I’ve managed to remember from high school, whereas if you asked me about calculus I would say, “I believe it involved numbers and letters, some of them at the same time.” More »