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Anna Watson is a University of Georgia cheerleader who, in addition to being one of the most earnest and nervous people to ever grace the GMA stage, can dead lift over 250 pounds. She was recently offered a $75,000 fitness modeling contract that she turned down because it required her to add an additional 50 pounds of body weight through the use of legal steroids, whereas she prefers building au naturel. Raised in the church, she attributes all of her strength to God, but come on, girl — take a little credit for yourself! Anna, get your guns! More »
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New ads shot by Terry Richardson have managed to stir up some complaints despite the fact that for the most part, everyone involved in the shoot (including Richardson) remained clothed. The problem is that the campaign is meant to promote the gym Equinox, yet the images portray the women as thin and waify, not particularly strong or fit. More »
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Have you ever felt like women's health and fitness magazines seem to be addressing an audience that consists of unfrozen cavewomen from another planet who don't know anything of the ways of the earth-people? You're not alone. Today's inaugural entry in Fitness Advice Follies— the dumping ground for obvious, confusing, or terrible diet and exercise advice— addresses a topic near and dear to all of our hearts: cake. Specifically, is cake delicious? More »
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Much unlike many a magazine editor who recommends you buy all sorts of crap that they most likely got for free, your Jezebel staff doesn't get jack shit (other than books, unsolicited). And that's how it should be. But on our own time, in our personal lives, we still buy stuff. So this is Worth It, our daily recommendation of random things that we've actually spent our own money on. These are the things we buy regularly or really like, things we'd actually tell our friends about. And now we're telling you. More »
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Scientists have long speculated that people have a "set point" for weight that's tough to change. Now researchers think we may have an exercise set point as well, which compensates for extra movement by making us lazy later on. More »
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When you picture a "gamer," do you picture someone with a sedentary lifestyle, glued to a screen, slightly obsessed with stuff that has little to do with reality?* Or do you picture a muscle-bound bodybuilder with ripped abs? As it turns out, gamers are a "great fit" at the gym. More »
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As long as we allow her husband to occupy the White House, First Lady Michelle Obama is determined to continue her dangerous crusade to get America's kids in shape. Who is that lady to tell my baby he ain't eating right? More »
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Meet CJ Senter. He's a 10 year old self-described "mini gladiator" who has been on a fitness kick for five years — half of his life. His abs are the kind of 8-pack we can only dream of, and his presence in front of 450 elementary school kids illicits Bieber-levels of shrieking. More »
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Michelle Obama, in her spirited quest to convince America's children that exercise is more fun than Playstation, is now setting out to set an exercise world record, and she's asking people all around this crazy world of ours to help her. More »
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There are a million good reasons to do yoga: increased strength and flexibility, comfortable pants, the many health benefits, the free orgasms. Free orgasms?! Jiggawhaaa? Oh, yeah, girl, has nobody told you that you can totally get off in yoga class? It's called a yogasm, and the Daily Beast is assuring us that it is totally normal: More »
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American endurance athlete Diana Nyad has abandoned her attempt to swim the 103 miles from Cuba to South Florida due to jellyfish stings. According to a spokesperson, she was pulled from the water last night after being stung by a Portuguese Man O War. She attempted to reenter the water this morning and was stung again. When she was told by doctors that more jellyfish stings could lead to death, she decided to extricate herself from the toxic invertebrate infested cesspool that are the Straits of Florida. More »
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The last time I was in the weight room at my local gym, I was one of only a few girls in a sea of grunting, sweaty men. There were plenty of girls in the gym itself, toiling away on the ellipticals or doing tiny crunches on yoga mats or puttering out 1,000 reps with a two pound weight in an attempt to spot-tone their triceps, but there were very few women actually lifting heavy weights. Why is this? What keeps us, as a lady populace, out of the weight room? More »
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Attention, fatties- if you stay fat, no one will love you, but if you lose weight, your friends will hate you. More »
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"Her arms are toned and sinewy, her stomach harder than concrete and it is impossible to spot anything that looks as if it might ever wobble." Why yes we are talking about Madonna! And some people are wondering exactly "how she does it." We could tell them: money and a lot of work. But for those looking for specifics? More »
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For the novice, gyms can be a little scary. They're full of machines, and people watching you, and it can feel like every second you're doing something wrong. And even if you're an experienced gym rat, a new facility or routine can present some social challenges. Luckily, we're here to help. More »
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People often find people who talk about yoga annoying. I get it, partly because the way people write about yoga elicits a very un-yogic reaction in me. As does how it occasionally plays out in real life. I'll explain. More »
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The exercise pioneer was one of the first advocates of women's fitness and, in particular, women's weightlifting. His Jack LaLanne Show ran for three decades and targeted housewives, teaching them how to work out and cook healthy meals. More »
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If you're like me, during the winter months, it's miraculous if you dress yourself, much less leave the house for something not medically necessary. Your workout playlist becomes tiresome, like dog pee saturated snow in a gutter. Let's fix this. More »
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Lake Buena Vista, FL, Jan 8: Jenny Scherer, 22, of Delavan, WI, crosses the finish line to win the women's division of the Walt Disney World Half Marathon. Scherer completed the 13.1-mile course with an unofficial time of 1:17:05. More »
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Last week, I asked readers for advice on how to start working out without throwing a ton of coin at an expensive gym membership, and did you ever come through. More »
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Our appetite for breaking news updates about Kim Kardashian's ever-changing body will never be satiated. But even we need to mix things up now and again. So let's talk about her sister Kourtney's body instead. How is it different? More »
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You'd really like to start exercising, but you have a problem: gym membership is expensive and you have a B.A. in Student Loan Debt Studies with a minor in Creative Ramen Composition. What to do? More »
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Chrissie Wellington didn't even realize that she was athletic until her early 20's. Now, at 33, she's a globally recognized endurance athlete. Stories like this should make you wonder if you are also secretly Superman. More »
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Upon learning that Natalie Portman worried about dying during the filming of Black Swan, we stumbled upon this Access Hollywood Live video that shows you how to achieve your own "amazingly toned" ballerina body! (Sorry—an Oscar isn't guaranteed.) More »
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A group of scientists has released a list of the year's worst celebrity-backed health myths. Perhaps the weirdest: that "reabsorbing" your sperm is somehow nutritious. More »
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With "only" five months to go, Kate Middleton is allegedly embarking on some punishing fitness regimen. More »
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Hard Candy Fitness is now open! Madonna chose Mexico City as the first location for her gym, and as you'll see in these photos, working out at Madonna's gym means working out with Madonna watching your every move. More »
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A few weeks ago, I unloaded about female "fitness" and how our bodies' function as tools has gotten lost in a quest to be thin. Readers responded with their own stories, and what awesome stories they are. More »
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I bought a women's fitness magazine the other day and almost every page equated fitness with losing weight. Get bikini ready in seven days! Lose 12 pounds by tomorrow by doing these three exercises! Hungry? Eat seven almonds! Fuck that. More »
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Despite evidence to the contrary, celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson now claims she never advocated a baby food diet. But even if she doesn't want adult women eating like children, she still says they should be "teeny tiny" creatures. More »
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Is yoga so popular in America because it can "turn mere human flesh into a vehicle for the divine?" Or because it eliminates all the worst things about exercise? More »
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Researchers say the decades-old formula for calculating maximum heart rate, which is used by trainers and built into exercise equipment, is inaccurate for women. Rather than subtracting their age from 220, women should subtract 88% of their age from 206. More »
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Celebrity trainer and "tiny dancer body" advocate Tracy Anderson apparently hires trainers at her gyms based on their hotness — whether they're certified or not. More »
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According to a UK study inexplicably commissioned by a "female car insurance company," women are more likely to enjoy exercise if they bring along a friend. Obvious, right? But then it gets weird. More »
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If, like me, you were a wee child of the 80s, perhaps you remember the little-girl fitness videos that were all the rage. But was that Barbie workout the source of body anxiety to come? In hindsight, sure. More »
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A new study shows about 20% of people get little health benefit from aerobic exercise, because of their genetic makeup. Creepily, this research could be used by the military to weed out recruits who won't ever get fit enough. [Telegraph] More »
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The hypocrisy of women's "health" magazines becomes fairly obvious just by looking at their covers. For example, this month's Self magazine features one cover line, "Be Happy And Healthy At Any Size" tucked below a much larger cover line: More »
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Um, if we had, we'd probably have gone with "being children." But apparently, it's Spanx. [FitSugar] More »
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61-year-old Richard Simmons still teaches regularly in L.A, offering "men and women who don't feel accepted in other places" a way "to feel good about themselves." Says Susan Powter, "He needs to put some trousers on and stop it." [NYT] More »
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