Posts Tagged as ‘fitness’

May 5, 2009

Why I Threw Out My Scale.

Photo by Lisa Brewster.

Why I Threw Out My Scale, or Body Image Issues Aren’t Interesting to People Who Don’t Have Them (So I Won’t Be Offended If You Don’t Read This)
Like every other 18-year-old going off to college, I spent one of those August weekends at Ikea, picking out cheap dorm decor. Unlike most other [...]

April 27, 2009

The Persistence of Memory

Photo by _neona_.
People talk about fitness like it’s one indivisible action–that you’re “getting into shape.” But when you first start working out, you quickly discover that fitness is three separate things:

Body fitness (“Will my muscles let me do this?”)
Heart fitness (“Can I do this and still breathe?”)
Brain fitness (“Can I mentally will myself to do [...]