Feminist reflections on fitness, sport, and health
Ups this month? I’m back inside riding. Why hello Zwift! It’s been awhile. So much fun. I’m also continuing the path to become an indoor cycling instructor. I wrote the test yesterday. Scary. It won’t be graded for a few weeks. I’ll let you know. Next up, playing apprentice instructor in a few classes. But… Continue reading Sam’s monthly check-in: October’s ups and downs (cw: brief mention of weight)
There are lots of alpacas… There are lots of alpacas. Here’s a herd. Or is it a flock? They’re in Peru. Photo from Unsplash. But unicorns are rare. (Not the kind of unicorn that Rachel Lark sings about at 18:40 on the Bawdy Storytelling show.) The kind of unicorns I’m talking about are weight loss… Continue reading When it comes to weight loss, aim to be an alpaca not a unicorn
It’s all over the fitness media this week. For weight loss, you should go for high intensity interval training over other forms of exercise. According Runners World, “Interval training could help you lose more weight than a continuous moderate-intensity workout, according to a new review and meta-analysis published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.… Continue reading High intensity interval training and weight loss: Yawn!
Catherine wrote a blog post about Brittany Runs a Marathon without watching it. That was definitely the wiser choice. See her commentary here. She writes, “So why I am writing about a movie I haven’t seen? Because I think the movie/advertising/fashion/fitness industries have (sort of) taken in the message that it’s not okay to blatantly… Continue reading Sam watched Brittany Runs a Marathon and recommends that you don’t
A little over two years ago I wrote a post about how much water we should be drinking. You can find it here. Recently NPR posted a myth-busting article about water myths and human bodies. The five myths they tackle include: I knew about the first one and the third, and had held suspicions about… Continue reading How much water should we drink to be hydrated? (Round II)
By MarthaFitat55 I work as a strategic planner as well as a communications strategist and trainer/facilitator. In the last few years, I have jotted down a series of goals as an informal strategic plan for myself. This year I decided to take a couple of days to be more structured about how I plan as… Continue reading Strategic planning for the fit feminist
I keep getting notifications that our readership on the Facebook page and blog are up. “Your stats are booming!” Ditto the membership in the feminist 221 workouts in 2021 group is up. It’s growing too. We’re coming up to our busiest time of the year. Why? You know why, right? It’s the holiday season and… Continue reading We’re here, trying to offer words of quiet, calm encouragement in the midst of diet frenzy fitness culture
For #tbt posts I like to go back to the same month in a previous year. Today we go back six years, to February 28, 2013, when I posted about metabolic health. Reading posts from the early days helps me to see how far I’ve come since we started the blog over six years ago.… Continue reading Metabolic Health Is a Feminist Issue #tbt
We bloggers and readers been writing and talking amongst ourselves lately about children, weight, fat shaming, and concerns about policing and medicalizing kids’ bodies. Once you start down this path, it’s really hard to stop. And where does this lead? To increased health and fitness, an end to worries about body appearance and function and… Continue reading Weight-loss surgery for teens: a disturbing trend
The Overthink Podcast Episode on Walking “Some podcasts only talk the talk, but in today’s episode David and Ellie walk the walk (or talk the walk?) by diving into the philosophy of walking. Walking is a complex sociocultural practice that raises fascinating questions about history, power, and freedom. Why did our ancestors transition from walking… Continue reading Fit is a Feminist Friday Link Round Up, #113: Five Things to Read or Listen to on a Friday
