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Test the Edges of Your Abilities
by Jay Hiller, September 5, 2022 “I want to start taking more chances,” I told my husband. “You mean you want to start taking more calculated risks,” he said. That’s a fine line to walk. At one extreme, you’re just being reckless. At the other extreme, you’re overprotecting yourself. And somewhere in the middle there’s…
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Listen! You can’t use exercise to target fat loss in a specific area.
By Jay Hiller, September 1, 2022 “You can’t use exercise to target fat loss in a specific area of your body,” I told my friend. “I think you’ve told me that before,” she said. I have. And she told me to write a blog post about it. I guess that’s one way to make me…
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How the inversion practice is going
by Jay Hiller, August 31, 2022 The inversion practice is going well. Thanks for reading past that headline. I’ve been doing different headstand variations, including the one above. I think the point of it is that you line your spine up against the corner of the column and that tells you something about your symmetry…
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Get a grip: Strengthen your hands and wrists
By Jay Hiller, August 16, 2022 I didn’t really appreciate my left wrist until I couldn’t count on it anymore. I’m not sure exactly how I hurt it two years ago. Sometimes I think it was the dog pulling on her leash. Sometimes I think it was holding a bar that was slightly bent when…
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The Chocolate Drawer
by Jay Hiller, August 11, 2022 At my worky-work job (as opposed to my fun yoga and fitness job) my friend, Jeanne used to generously provide anybody who walked by full access to a desk drawer in her cubicle that she kept stocked with chocolate. I had absolutely no control with the chocolate drawer, sometimes…
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Gadget Review: Crossrope Fitness jump ropes
Jay Hiller, July 22, 2022 About a year ago, I was talking to David Robbins, a personal trainer and a friend, about how I’d always wanted to learn to jump rope and that I just seemed to stink at it. I saw it as a circumstance I couldn’t do anything about. He didn’t see it…