Category: Exercises
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Cooking + Legs Day
By Jay Hiller, February 6, 2022 Photo by Calum Lewis on Unsplash I’ve cooked quite a bit the last few days, which is not like me at all. You may remember my ongoing project to cook all the dishes in the Vegan Instant Pot cookbook my daughter gave me. Yesterday I made a wild rice…
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Body weight workouts can be more than enough work
by Jay Hiller, February 5, 2022 Photo by Hayley Kim Design on Unsplash “Um, this is hard,” I thought by the third time the yoga instructor on my streaming service added “just a little bit more to the sequence we’ve been doing.” It was a good practice with challenging moves that put me on my…
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Among a cajillion choices, there’s gotta be an exercise you enjoy
by Jay Hiller, January 31, 2023 “Honestly, the bike is so good for you,” a family member’s PT told her. My family member was excited because she had been able to do some very light biking without pain for the first time in weeks. I immediately thought to myself, I should get on the bike.…
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Klutz
by Jay Hiller, December 13, 2022 This is tragic. Photo by Sarah Kilian on Unsplash I was talking with a friend, David, on Sunday about fitness. We’re about the same age. As usual, he had a really good exercise tip for me. Then we talked about how the goal for the long game is to…
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The walls of my house are scared of me: adventures with wall squats
by Jay Hiller, November 26, 2002 Photo by Augustine Wong on Unsplash The walls in my house are scared of me and not because I’m going to dust them, wash them and paint them, a process they need badly. (And just to be clear, the plans to do those things are hypothetical and will get…
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While I’m too sick to do anything but think about what I wanna do
By Jay Hiller, November 9, 2022 Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash I did a pretty good imitation of a slug today, moving slowly from bed to couch and back to bed. I’m really not myself and I’m resting. Anyway, while I’m sick and don’t have to put my money my mouth is, I’ll…
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The Washington Post’s Super Speedy Scientific Workout
By Jay Hiller, November 6, 2022 Photo by Jacqueline Munguía on Unsplash The Washington Post has an awesome article in the digital paper today with a link to a speedy workout. It has video demonstrations of how to do the exercises and it can be done in 10-20 minutes. If you look at the first…
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Bruiser Yoga Mom
By Jay Hiller, November 5, 2022 Tessy offered me some corrections here. Becoming a parent was the most important thing that ever happened to me. When my younger daughter was in middle school she made me a social media account with the handle Yoga Marathon Mom. My variation of it for an app I use…
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I need more jump roping in my life
by Jay Hiller, October 29, 2022 Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash Like everybody else on the planet, I have a lot going on right now. I don’t see things getting less busy for another 3 weeks. A lot of it is fun and it’s been challenging to get workouts in. Tonight I opted for…
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Left my library book for an upper body workout
Jay Hiller, October 28, 2022 On the way home from work today, I picked up my library hold, a collection of short stories by Percival Everett Half an Inch of Water. It’s good. I had to set a timer to get myself up off the couch to work out. Upper body today–inclined bench press, alternating…