shock therapy

Here I am after taking an electric muscle stimulation (EMS) workout in NYC last week. Supposedly, EMS condenses three hours of a conventional strength training into a thirty minute workout by sending electric currents to different muscle groups while you wear a power suit. By dialing a master control connected to your suit, which was provided by the studio, the trainer can adjust the depth of the shocks. I worked up a nice sweat and left the...

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fun fact

“Mice love to run, they typically log several miles a night in their exercise wheel. These nocturnal drills are not simply a way of dealing with the stress of laboratory life, as scientists from Leiden University in the Netherlands demonstrated in a charming experiment. They left a small cage like structure containing a training wheel in a quiet corner of an urban park, under the surveillance of a motion-activated night-vision camera. The...

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met one of my fitness heroes yesterday

Tracy Anderson, workout guru, businessperson extraordinaire, and super nice chick 😉 Here we are in the locker room right after the atTAin definition class in her new fitness studio on East 59th Street, NYC. I was a red-faced puddle of sweat. Looking forward to returning next week.

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Random thoughts

*your shoes are the first thing people subconsciously notice about you. wear nice shoes *it’s hard to rebuild a friendship if you don’t acknowledge what destroyed it *pilates is a three dimensional exercise. it requires movement that occurs in all planes of motion (one of the reasons I love it) *when you work out, sometimes focus on the muscle you are using instead of the movement *one of the secrets to a happy marriage: it’s...

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Pilates in Tel Aviv & Paris

Above: Sergei Lukin, Grand Prix and Gold Medal winner of the 1978 World Ballet Competition in Tokyo, Japan and principle dancer of the Kiev Ballet. Mr. Lukin runs the Nespilates Studio in Tel Aviv. Below is Martine Curtis-Oakes, owner of A-Lyne Studio dePilates in the Marais section of Paris.

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Pleasures in life

Travel is glorious, exhausting, enlightening, frustrating and inspiring. This past year I had a strong desire to visit Israel. I loved wandering the mysterious streets of the old city in Jerusalem, getting lost, exploring the holy temples and religious sites, rummaging around the souks, looking for just the right scarf or pair of earrings or shawarma eatery. Tel Aviv is more metropolitan, with the feel of a small big city. . . . with malls, a...

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