tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61790095914829961722024-02-19T18:59:03.004-07:00IPTC DAILYIntermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-12657989581248922182012-10-23T21:03:00.001-06:002012-10-23T21:03:18.650-06:00Health & Fitness Apps<br />
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It's pretty amazing what kind of technology and information are available to us so readily today! Even three years ago when I was preparing for my certification exam in Pilates, I didn't have access to the great anatomy apps that I have today! I thought I'd share with you some of the apps I've been liking lately, and hope that you will all share some of your favorites, too! <br />
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<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/muscle-bone-anatomy-3d/id375105666?mt=8"><span style="color: black;">Muscle & Bone Anatomy 3D by Real Bodywork</span></a></h3>
I love this app for reviewing and learning anatomy. It's great because you can view the muscle not only in 3D, but also in their layers from deepest to most superficial. You can view the entire body from head toe in one part, or break it down by arm, leg, torso, etc. After viewing the muscles, you can also watch their actions, and then you can take quizzes on identifying the muscles, figuring out their actions, the spelling, and more! <br />
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<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/easy-10k-with-jeff-galloway/id434528770?mt=8"><span style="color: black;">Easy 10K with Jeff Galloway</span></a></h3>
I just downloaded this app a couple weeks ago and I am loving it! I haven't been running much this year (and I have never been much of a runner to begin with). Part of my problem is that I get very bored with running, and part of my problem is that I never seem to get to that "Zen"-like state--trust me, I've tried! I've run 6, 8, 10 miles on multiple occasions and just never seem to feel those endorphins. So, back to the app, I love it because Jeff Galloway's approach is to run one minute and walk one minute. It surprised me how much I love that format--I run faster when I'm running cause I know it's only for 1 minute, but then I enjoy the whole workout a lot more because my body feels great! The workouts are set up 3 times per week to prepare you for a 10K in 13 weeks. I'm not really preparing for a race, but it's a great format to get me running again. I also love that I can upload my own iPod music (or choose from the app's music), and then the BPMs are calculated to match my running and walking. You can also turn on/off prompts from Jeff Galloway telling you when to run/walk and things to think about to improve your technique and experience. <br />
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<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/calorie-counter-pro-by-mynetdiary/id352247139?mt=8"><span style="color: black;">My Net Diary (Pro</span>)</a></h3>
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This is a great app for tracking your meals and calorie intake. What I love about it is the ability to scan the barcode on food that has it, then you just confirm the information that comes up and enter your serving consumed. It also stores your commonly eaten foods, and you can put together recipes you cook with multiple ingredients for easier tracking when you eat the same recipe again. You can also track your exercise, water consumed, measurements, and more! <br />
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<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/allrecipes.com-dinner-spinner/id299515267?mt=8"><span style="color: black;">All Recipes</span></a></h3>
I love this app when I need a new idea for a meal. It's so easy to search for a recipe based on what ingredients you have at hand, or based on reviews, or even by special dietary needs (no gluten, vegan, etc.).<br />
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<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ifitness-pro/id536049508?mt=8"><span style="color: black;">iFitness</span></a></h3>
This is a great app for people who need new ideas for a workout at home or at the gym. You can decide which part of your body you want to strengthen, and the app will give you examples of exercises--you can see pictures, watch a video of how to perform the exercise, and also read a description of the exercise. Then you can track your workout and save it to repeat at a future date! <br />
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Do you use any of these apps? If you have any other suggestions of apps you've fallen in love with please share them with us! <br />
Intermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-11792396817095295262012-09-18T13:40:00.003-06:002012-09-18T13:40:39.917-06:00No Bake Peanut Butter & Dark Chocolate Energy BitesThis is my new favorite snack to throw together! Thanks to our client Kelly Hall in Las Vegas for sharing the recipe and making some for me while I was teaching a certification course at <a href="http://www.thegreenroompilates.com/">The Green Room Pilates</a> in Henderson, NV. The best part about these (besides their deliciousness) is how easy it is to customize them to fit your preferences and needs. I have made them using almond butter or peanut butter, agave syrup, dark chocolate chips, pumpkin flax cereal, and I love to throw in a raw fiber mix from 'The Garden of Life' to get some extra fiber. You can add protein powder, dried fruits, coconut, carob powder or cocoa powder, and anything else you can think of! Just store them in the fridge and grab one or a few on the go. So easy! <br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yields about 40 pieces, depending on how big you make them</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">2 cups oatmeal</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1/2 cup unsweetened coconut</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1/2 cup brown rice cereal </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1 1/4 cup peanut butter</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1 cup flax seed meal </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1/2 cup dark chocolate chips</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1/2 cup honey</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1 tablespoon dark chocolate powder, optional, I did not use this on this batch but I will on the next</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Mix all of the ingredients in a bowl. Refrigerate for about 1 hour. Roll into balls about 1-2 inch in diameter. Store in an airtight container and keep refrigerated for up to 1-2 weeks.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Adapted from</span><a href="http://gimmesomeoven.com/no-bake-energy-bites/" style="background-color: white; color: #cd3527; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;"> gimme some oven</a>
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Kelly shared the recipe from<a href="http://eatgood4life.blogspot.com/2012/05/no-bake-peanut-butter-and-dark.html"> the blog 'Eat Good 4 Life'</a>.Intermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-21449015088142223962012-09-05T09:21:00.003-06:002012-09-05T09:21:49.121-06:00Mastering your Pilates cuesScoop out your abdominals! Make that 'C' curve with your spine! Feel like you're tightening up a belt! Imagine a fire under your belly and you have to pull your abs away from it!<br />
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Do you ever struggle to find a cue that resonates with your client? I think we have all discovered that a cue that makes perfect sense to one client means nothing to another, or even seems confusing or ridiculous! Imagery is extremely effective for many people in finding the right connection in their body, but how do we find the right cue for the right person? I actually had one student in a course ask if there were any books completely made up of cues for different exercises in Pilates. I did some research on the internet and found some great articles and even an online group where we can share our favorite cues with each other to try out on our clients or in group classes. <br />
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I also suggest making note of what cues work really well with your private clients. I always try to keep a record when a client says something like, "Wow, that really helped when you said that", or if they suggest something on their own that they like to think about during a particular exercise. If you're teaching a group class, think about writing down specific cues that you'd like to try out with certain exercises. Consider asking your group class clients if that/those cue(s) helped them or made sense to them. <br />
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Many clients don't like to hear all the technical jargon involved in the exercises, which is why having a cache of cues is so helpful and important. Then, practice using them! Try these articles for more ideas about how to cue and why it is so important. If you have any cues that you have found particularly effective, be sure to leave them for us in the comments. <br />
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<a href="http://www.pilatesdigest.com/the-art-of-cueing-oh-those-words/">http://www.pilatesdigest.com/the-art-of-cueing-oh-those-words/</a><br />
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<a href="http://pilates.about.com/b/2011/02/25/cues-and-images-that-lift-our-pilates-practice.htm">http://pilates.about.com/b/2011/02/25/cues-and-images-that-lift-our-pilates-practice.htm</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.ideafit.com/fitness-library/successful-cuing-for-pilates">http://www.ideafit.com/fitness-library/successful-cuing-for-pilates</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.pilates-pro.com/pilates-pro/2008/5/15/the-art-of-pilates-cueing.html">http://www.pilates-pro.com/pilates-pro/2008/5/15/the-art-of-pilates-cueing.html</a><br />
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<br />Intermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-52444871973757026612012-08-08T13:18:00.001-06:002012-08-08T13:18:23.366-06:00Energy is contagious<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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I recently finished reading Keith Richard's Autobiography 'Life' (a pretty fascinating read, if you haven't read it). I'm not a huge Rolling Stones fan, but I was interested because as I've gotten older I've grown to appreciate biographies and autobiographies more and more. It's comforting and always amazing to me to read about how a life completely different from mine can still radiate the commonalities of the human experience. <br />
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One passage in particular resonated with me. In speaking about his experiences being on stage: "When you go on the road on these grueling tours you become a machine; your whole routine is geared to the gig. From the moment you wake up, you're preparing for the show; your whole mind's on it all day, even if you think you know what you're going to do. Afterwards you have a few hours free if you want, if you're not knackered...It's a hard drill sometimes. But once I hit the stage, all of that miraculously goes away. The grind is never the stage performance. I can play the same song again and again, year after year. When "Jumpin' Jack Flash" comes up again it's never a repetition, always a variation. Always. I would never play a song again once I thought it was dead. We couldn't just churn it out. The real release is getting on stage. Once we're up there doing it, it's sheer fun and joy. Some long-distance stamina, of course, is needed. And the only way I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All I've got is this burning energy, especially when I've got a guitar in my hands. I get an incredible raging glee when they get out of their seats. Yeah, come on, let it go. Give me some energy and I'll give you back double. It's almost like some enormous dynamo or generator. it's indescribable. I start to rely on it; I use their energy to keep myself going. If the place was empty, I wouldn't be able to do it...We couldn't do that without their energy, we just wouldn't even dream of it. And they make us want to give our best."<br />
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I grew up as a dancer and have been lucky to do it professionally for a while as well. In the above passage, Keith Richards summed up the whole reason I love performing. It is truly an amazing feeling when you get that exchange of energy going between yourself, your fellow performers, and your audience. As he says, "it's indescribable". I've had those moments before I get on stage when I think to myself, "I'm unbelievably exhausted, I don't know how I'm going to do this", but once you get going and you feel that energy coming back to you from the audience you want to give them everything. <br />
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The Olympics have contributed to me wondering lately if it's the same experience for athletes. For marathoners, do you get that extra burst of energy from those on the sidelines cheering you on? Or does it come from your fellow marathoners as well? What about those athletes whose audience must be silent? Do they draw from the expectations of the audience and wait for the exultation after a great performance (golfers, gymnasts, etc)? What about in your training when you DON'T have an audience or anyone cheering you on? From where do you draw strength? What keeps you going? <br />
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If you have any experiences to share or mantras that keep you going please share them with us! And let's share our energy with each other so we can all experience things we never thought possible...Intermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-45549924552513584612012-07-06T09:22:00.000-06:002012-07-06T09:22:16.868-06:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I loved <a href="http://www.livestrong.com/blog/the-health-challenge/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=07032012">this blog</a> from Adam Bornstein at livestrong.com. He's encouraging us all to take inventory on our goals as the year is half over already. Like, to REALLY reassess, and try writing down an actual plan to get us there rather than keeping it vague and hoping it all works out. I think it's a great idea. I struggle to be patient with myself on the path to achieving goals, but by actually writing out a plan, it will help keep me focused on the every day achievements that will get me to the bigger goal. These small steps will keep me feeling like I've accomplished something rather than beating myself up for not having reached the 'ultimate' just yet. I'm happy with some of the goals I've achieved so far in 2012, but I'm taking 'The Health Challenge'! Will you? <br />
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The Health Challenge<br />
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Here at LIVESTRONG.COM we're gearing up for what will undoubtedly be a month to remember. After all, the Olympics are a prime opportunity to be swept up by the ultimate competition and feel inspired to become something better. Whether it's the underdog that captures your heart (Justin Gatlin’s shot at redemption has our attention), the competitive battles for greatness (yeah, we're looking at you Phelps and Lochte), or the inspiring stories of people who continue to defy the odds (Dara Torres career is amazing, regardless of what happened), the Olympics are the embodiment of personal achievement.
But July also marks a time on the calendar that is a little more personal. Half of the year has passed. The summer is here, the warmer weather has arrived, and we have one simple question: What have you done so far?
Before you answer, I’m going to issue a challenge: Take a hard look in the mirror.
Now before you judge me for being shallow, narcissistic, or arrogant, this stare-down is not about your physical appearance or whether you're ready to show off a flat stomach or abs at the beach. (Although that is always an added bonus.)
I want you to look in the mirror and determine if you've been true to yourself and established an optimistic outlook about what you can achieve. Have you been working harder towards becoming the person you want to be? Or have you made excuses, given in to frustration, and settled back into old habits and already considered this year a lost cause?
I issued a similar challenge back January, because sometimes we need a little tough love. And I'm here to supply that once again--starting with myself.
I have not been my healthiest and best self in 2012. And this isn't about physical results as much as it is about habits. I haven't been sleeping enough, I still don't spend enough time with my friends and family, and in all honesty, I could be more consistent with my exercise and diet. These goals are nothing new. I wrote them down in January and I reassess them each month. The problem isn't my execution; it's my lack of focus.
Creating a shift towards becoming your best version doesn't start with tangible, concrete goals, such as dropping 10 pounds or earning a raise. This is part of the process, but success begins with building habits that are reinforced through consistent execution. Want a promotion? Focus on the steps that will get you there--such listing your weaknesses, determining your company's goals, and then setting up a plan for success.
The same can be said about weight loss or improved eating. Acknowledge your behaviors that need improvement and then work on those.
Step. By. Step.
And remind yourself to be patient. Bad habits aren’t born overnight, and good practices can't be incarnated instantly. You must teach yourself to have as much patience towards success as you did negligence that caused your frustration.
Oftentimes we lose sight of the process with "tunnel vision" that focuses only on the end goal. I spend every day focusing on trying to become a better person, and as a result sometimes I forget about the steps I need to follow to make that happen. I know my priorities and my values, and I'm very good at maintaining those. But I still struggle at improving my weaknesses because I have a tendency of reassuring myself by only looking at what I do well, instead of what needs work.
Understand that supplying positive reinforcement is important for your mindset. That's how you build confidence and success; find what you do well and acknowledge those traits. And it's that confidence that will help you overcome your weaknesses in the face of doubt, anger and frustration. But only focusing on the good still leaves open the possibility to be pulled down by the bad. That's what happened to me.
So let's take a step together. The year is only half done. The glass is still half full. If we can learn anything from Olympians it's that greatness lives within us all. It doesn't matter if you've been perfect this year or have fallen short of your expectations. Like any race, winning is always the goal. But achievement isn’t limited to champions; it’s a collective that is shared by all participants. Taking part in the competition and accepting the journey is part of the glory, and that’s any opportunity that you can seize at any moment.
Any accomplishment is still an accomplishment. And a relentless attitude will inevitably help you persevere and reach your goals, regardless of the timeline. I'm now focused on finishing 2012 stronger than I started. And I hope that you are committed to doing the same.
Whether you want to sprint to the finish line or take a marathon approach, we'll be here supporting you along whatever path you choose.
So take a hard look in the mirror.
What do you see? Who do you see? When I look at you and hear your requests, I see potential. I see desire. And I see greatness. Now it's time for you to bring that limitless potential to life.
-Adam Bornstein
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Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/blog/the-health-challenge#ixzz1zr7GQ4s3Intermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-56735358236424160852012-06-25T14:06:00.000-06:002012-06-25T14:06:00.361-06:00Setting the Pace for WomenI found this<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/21/kathrine-switzer-boston-marathon_n_1615581.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003"> inspiring article</a> about Kathrine Switzer, who was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon in 1967. She did it by entering with only her initials because women were not allowed to enter the race. It's amazing to think about the changes that have been made in women's sports in the last 50 years. I was born in 1978 not realizing how groundbreaking some women's accomplishments were considering recent history. It was just in 1972 that women were finally allowed to enter the Boston Marathon. I am so grateful to all the women before me who saw past the limits that had been put on women, and took a stand for women's rights, because I grew up believing that I could do anything I wanted to do. I never had the impression that certain things weren't possible for me as a woman, even though this wasn't always the case. Even today we are still dealing with disparages in equality between genders such as equal compensation in the workplace; I am so inspired by the strong women who are the catalyst for change to gender equality. Watch this video of Kathrine Switzer--you will be amazed by someone who tried to stop her mid-race, and inspired by those who kept her going, including herself!<br /></div>
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June 23rd marks the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martha-burk/billie-jean-king-title-ix_b_1609164.html" style="border: none; color: #6a5bff; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">40th anniversary of Title IX</a> -- the law that made all educational programs and activities available to both genders. The law has provided countless opportunities for women and girls in sports.</div>
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One outspoken athlete, Kathrine Switzer, has paved the way for women in sports across the country. In 1967, Switzer disguised her gender by entering the all-male Boston Marathon using her initials, making her the first woman to enter the race. While some runners were excited to see Switzer participate, one race director tried to take Switzer's numbers off her chest and throw her out of the race.</div>
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It was then that Switzer came to a realization: "If I don't finish this race, then everybody's gonna believe women can't do it and that they don't deserve to be here and that they're incapable," Switzer told AOL. "I've got to finish this race."</div>
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How long did it take Switzer to complete the race that not only changed her life, but impacted sports for women across the country? Four hours and 20 minutes. Watch the above video for more of Switzer's account of the Boston Marathon.</div>
<br />Intermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-11297834750783404002012-03-15T14:47:00.001-06:002012-03-15T18:01:05.228-06:00Intensive Reformer Spring 2012I had great time finishing up the third weekend of the STOTT PILATES Intensive Reformer course and thought I would share some pictures with all of you. This is one awesome group of "soon to be" Pilates Instructors. <br />
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I hope you are all studying hard and practicing all your new skills. See you all soon.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jen and Kristin teaching while Mel and Jen learn</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mel very serious about Front Rowing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Greta doing and teaching Back Rowing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think they had the sunniest Reformer</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kristin and Great doing Straight Back</td></tr>
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</div>Intermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-4512439614417980672012-03-06T16:30:00.001-07:002012-03-06T17:49:27.534-07:00Preparing for your STOTT PILATES practical exam<div class="MsoNormal">Hi Everyone!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">I thought I would start a new series of posts for all of you Students out there and that will hopefully help you along in your Pilates career. This is the first entry and I figured we should start at the beginning with some tips on how to prepare for your practical exam. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">1. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Prepare for the “nervousness”.</b> One of the most difficult parts about the practical exam is that you will be nervous. Even if you feel prepared, you will be nervous and that can make it difficult to focus and perform at your best. Make sure you prepare for the nerves by teaching people that challenge you to be better or make you a little nervous <span style="font-family: Wingdings;">J</span>. This way when you are in your actual exam you will know what it feels like to be nervous and know how to rise above it. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">2. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Do several “rehearsals” of your exam without stopping.</b> Treat it like it is your actual exam and do not look at your book until you finish the FULL 1 hour, 1.5 hours, or 2 hours. Keep a piece of paper and write down questions that pop up as you go and check them all after the “rehearsal”. You want to know what it feels like to get through the entire exam layout from beginning to end. Then when you do your actual exam it will be familiar territory.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">3. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Make your practice hours count</b>. Observe teachers that inspire you. Teach as many different bodies as you can, practice the movement with your own body over and over and over so you know what 2 springs feels like and you know what 3 springs feel like in the same exercise. Adjusting for others becomes easier if you know what it feels like.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ok, now some more obvious things you need to know:<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">4. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Know your STOTT PILATES Basic Principles.</b> Know the depth of them so that you feel confident that you can teach people to understand them AND integrate them into their body. Read the details in the front of your manual (regularly) and start teaching them to people just like you will do it in your exam.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">5. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Know how to do Postural Analysis. </b>The PA is detailed and the best way to learn this is to work with people/instructors that know it well so that you feel confident you have it right. The more practice you having doing the PA the better you get at doing it, so do them as often as possible.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">6. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Know the exercises: </b>I know this one seems obvious but here is how to organize it. Know the starting position (it will get you off to a good start), the breathing, the choreography, and how to modify it if you need to for your exam body.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-QewkktN9MT-10v8xPCRtG_ozoKQ6dgO32UfFnPg0i6MeuWsQO3_pjnLGFm22p4d4W8VSpxvPKeCoX-Tg6osyEfbQrlFf5qqhyphenhyphenx2xhY64ypzyGB96To4zkCuXyLpcc0IAdoAzl6cbKdE/s1600/DSC_0071.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-QewkktN9MT-10v8xPCRtG_ozoKQ6dgO32UfFnPg0i6MeuWsQO3_pjnLGFm22p4d4W8VSpxvPKeCoX-Tg6osyEfbQrlFf5qqhyphenhyphenx2xhY64ypzyGB96To4zkCuXyLpcc0IAdoAzl6cbKdE/s400/DSC_0071.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">7. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Programming.</b> One of the biggest reason STOTT PILATES requires a practical exam is to make sure you know how to program appropriately for many different bodies. That is one of the many ways STOTT PILATES instructors are unique and valuable to the community. We can program at all levels and for all types of people!</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>8. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Do an exam review. </b>If you are struggling to know where to start or just want to make sure you are on the right track let us know. We are happy to meet with you and get you or keep you moving in the right direction. That is truly what we are here for and we love our job working with you.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As the Licensed Training Center for your community, Intermountain Pilates Training is here to help your Pilates career be a success. Talese, Amanda, Mariko, Jaada, Jenna, and I are all here for you, so use us for everything you need!</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Sorry this was a little long but hopefully it is helpful. I will try to make the next few a little shorter. HAPPY STUDYING! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Jenny</div>Intermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-32336706851486953382012-03-06T10:33:00.000-07:002012-03-06T10:33:03.301-07:00No Excuses: The Story of an Incredible Climb of Kilimanjaro<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"></span><br />
<h1 style="color: #333333; font-size: 24px; font-weight: normal; font: normal normal bold 2.181em/1.083em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.27em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Need some inspiration today? Try this incredible story about Kyle Maynard climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro from the <a href="http://findout.rei.com/blog_detail/?contentid=5946747292461456746">REI blog</a>. I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro as a healthy 25 year-old, and it is still the most difficult thing I've ever done. I continue to draw strength from the experience during difficult times. Does Kyle's story inspire you to take on any big challenges? </h1><h1 style="color: #333333; font-size: 24px; font-weight: normal; font: normal normal bold 2.181em/1.083em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.27em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</h1><h1 style="color: #333333; font-size: 24px; font-weight: normal; font: normal normal bold 2.181em/1.083em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.27em; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">No Excuses: The Story of an Incredible Climb of Kilimanjaro</h1><div class="intro-img vcard" style="float: left; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 3px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 80px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="img-holder " style="float: left; font-size: 11px; height: 61px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 30px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1px; position: relative; width: 60px;"><a href="http://findout.rei.com/user-profile/?userid=8917579831375139621" manual_cm_re="bd-_-bd-_-TD Wood" style="color: #668800; font-size: 11px;"><img alt="T.D. Wood" height="60" src="http://rm.awarenessnetworks.com/4619119590033961665.jpg?w=60&h=60" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="60" /></a></div><div class="date-holder" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://findout.rei.com/site/rei/images/sprite.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: -1169px -384px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 11px; height: 60px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 60px;"><em class="date" style="display: block; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center;"><span class="day" style="color: white; display: block; font-size: 9px; font: normal normal normal 9px/13px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MON</span><span class="number" style="display: block; font-size: 32px; font: normal normal bold 32px/32px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">05</span><span class="year" style="color: #333333; display: block; font-size: 9px; font: normal normal normal 9px/13px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MAR 2012</span></em></div></div><div class="intro-holder" style="float: none; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: auto;"><br />
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<dd style="display: inline; float: left; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="fn" href="http://findout.rei.com/user-profile/?userid=8917579831375139621" style="color: #668800; font-size: 11px;">T.D. Wood</a> on <span class="history" style="display: inline; font-size: 11px; line-height: 15px;">18 hours ago</span></dd></dl><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.636em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.636em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Viewers of <a href="http://espn.go.com/" manual_cm_re="bd-_-bd-_-ESPN" style="color: #668800; font-size: 11px;" target="_blank" title="http://espn.go.com/">ESPN</a> may have seen an <a href="http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/index" style="color: #668800; font-size: 11px;" target="_blank" title="http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/index"><em style="font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Outside the Lines</em></a> segment that aired Sunday on 25-year-old Kyle Maynard. If you missed it, it's worth watching.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.636em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Maynard was born with a rare condition known as congenital amputation, which truncated all 4 of Maynard's limbs. In an amazing overcoming-the-odds story, this <em style="font-size: 11px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Outside the Lines</em> mini-documentary titled "No Excuses" tells the tale of Maynard's determination to climb 19,431-foot Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.636em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="348" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/czXTkNyzF98" style="font-size: 11px;" width="512"></iframe></div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.636em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Like, wow. Maynard's story gets me thinking about taking on something big like <a href="http://www.rei.com/adventures/trips/africa/kilman.html" style="color: #668800; font-size: 11px;" target="_blank" title="http://www.rei.com/adventures/trips/africa/kilman.html">a Kilimanjaro climb</a> I've pondered for a long, long time. What affect did it have on you?</div><div style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.636em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div id="divAsset" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 11px; height: 329px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div id="blog_img" style="display: block; font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></div></div>Intermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-63789185007814760942012-02-29T14:40:00.000-07:002012-02-29T14:40:46.137-07:00Leap Year 2012<h1 class="title-news" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #111111; line-height: 36px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Happy Leap Day, everyone! 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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 228px;"><input class="share_boxes_input_edit" id="subscribe_user_email" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; color: #aaaaaa; float: left; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; height: 14px; line-height: 14px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 5px; padding-top: 2px; width: 160px;" type="text" value="Enter email" /><a class="button culture small" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/leap-year-2012_n_1311031.html" style="-webkit-box-shadow: none; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #f3f3f3; background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0% 0%, 0% 100%, from(rgb(243, 243, 243)), to(rgb(231, 231, 231))); background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: initial; border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; box-shadow: none; color: rgb(55, 55, 55) !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; height: 14px; line-height: 14px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; width: 59px;">SIGN UP</a></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="tags_holder clearfix" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 570px;"><div class="float_left follow_tags_headline margin_top_3" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 3px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="float_left arial_11 bold uppercase" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold !important; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">REACT:</div></div><div class="reaction_pannel_v3 facebookvote_v2 culture_vertical_bg_link" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: inline; float: none; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/leap-year-2012_n_1311031.html#" id="link_vote_0" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #e8e8e8; background-image: url(http://s.huffpost.com/images/v/bg-button.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 1px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize;" title="Amazing">Amazing</a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/leap-year-2012_n_1311031.html#" id="link_vote_1" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #e8e8e8; background-image: url(http://s.huffpost.com/images/v/bg-button.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 1px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize;" title="Inspiring">Inspiring</a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/leap-year-2012_n_1311031.html#" id="link_vote_2" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #e8e8e8; background-image: url(http://s.huffpost.com/images/v/bg-button.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 1px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize;" title="Funny">Funny</a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/leap-year-2012_n_1311031.html#" id="link_vote_3" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #e8e8e8; background-image: url(http://s.huffpost.com/images/v/bg-button.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 1px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize;" title="Scary">Scary</a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/leap-year-2012_n_1311031.html#" id="link_vote_4" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #e8e8e8; background-image: url(http://s.huffpost.com/images/v/bg-button.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 1px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize;" title="Hot">Hot</a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/leap-year-2012_n_1311031.html#" id="link_vote_5" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #e8e8e8; background-image: url(http://s.huffpost.com/images/v/bg-button.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 1px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize;" title="Crazy">Crazy</a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/leap-year-2012_n_1311031.html#" id="link_vote_6" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #e8e8e8; background-image: url(http://s.huffpost.com/images/v/bg-button.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 1px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize;" title="Important">Important</a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/leap-year-2012_n_1311031.html#" id="link_vote_7" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: #e8e8e8; background-image: url(http://s.huffpost.com/images/v/bg-button.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(187, 187, 187) !important; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important; display: block; float: left; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 1px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize;" title="Weird">Weird</a></div></div><div class="read_more with_verticals clearfix" data-beacon="{"p":{"mnid":"follow_tags"}}" id="follow_tags" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="float_left follow_tags_headline normal_weight" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; font-weight: normal !important; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="float_left arial_11 bold uppercase" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold !important; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;">FOLLOW:</div></div><div class="follow_tags_cont_regular" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; display: inline; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: auto;"><span style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="follow_bignews_wrapper" hovercard_params="{"tag_url":"/news/video","tag_name":"Video", "root_tag_id":"3"}" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a class="follow_bignews" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/video" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://s.huffpost.com/images/entries/follow-bignews.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #28787f; display: inline-block; height: 15px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 4px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; width: 14px;"> </a><a class="follow_bignews_link" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/video" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #28787f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Video</a></span>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/born-on-leap-day" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #28787f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Born On Leap Day</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/leap-day-2012" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #28787f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Leap Day 2012</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/happy-leap-day" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #28787f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Happy Leap Day</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/happy-leap-day-2012" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #28787f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Happy Leap Day 2012</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/leap-day" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #28787f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Leap Day</a>,<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/leap-day-facts" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #28787f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Leap Day Facts</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/leap-day-facts-and-figures" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #28787f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Leap Day Facts And Figures</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/leap-year" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #28787f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Leap Year</a>, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/leap-year-2012" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #28787f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #28787f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">People-Born-On-Leap-Day</a>, </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/culture" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #28787f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Culture News</a></div></div><div class="clear" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: both; font-size: 1px; height: 1px !important; line-height: 1px !important; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden !important; overflow-y: hidden !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div class="entry_body_text" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="float_left" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div id="potd_block" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="big_photo" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img alt="Leap Year 2012" height="190" src="http://i.huffpost.com/gen/517109/thumbs/s-LEAP-YEAR-2012-large.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; height: auto; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 1px; margin-right: 1px; margin-top: 1px; max-width: inherit !important; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="260" /><div class="caption" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 2px; max-width: 260px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 260px;">An estimated 5 million people have birthdays on Feb. 29</div></div></div></div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Every four years, the world is given an extra day at the end of February.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">For singletons, it's a <a href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/118799" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #28787f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">day for women to propose to their men</a> and for those with a birthday on Feb. 29, four times the celebration is in order.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Vancouver-based Peter Brouwer, co-founder of the <a href="http://leapyearday.com/feb29/home" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #28787f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">Honor Society of Leap Year Day Babies</a>, told the Associated Press that<a href="http://www.devilslakejournal.com/news/x1481617589/Leap-day-babies-relish-their-unique-birthdays" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #28787f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">there are an estimated 200,000 leap year babies in the U.S.</a> and about five million worldwide.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If you want to actually understand the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/29/leap-year-2012-science-february-29-video_n_1309996.html" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #28787f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">science behind leap years</a>, this intriguing<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xX96xng7sAE" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #28787f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">YouTube video</a> should answer most of your questions.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In celebration of <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/leap-year-2012/" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #28787f; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">Leap Year 2012</a>, we've compiled some of the best tweets for the special day.</div><div style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; list-style-image: initial; 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border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-weight: 900; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://i.lsimg.net/ui/images/channel/default/dot.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 26px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 13px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This is a good article from livestrong.com about your hip flexors and why it is important to stretch them. we usually end class with single thigh stretch on the reformer, When done properly, the essence of this exercise is to stretch the hip flexors. You will feel a deeper stretch if you can tilt your pelvis back. This means that the pubic bone comes forward and the top of your pelvis tilts back toward your low back. engaging your glutes will help hold this position, as will engaging your oblique abdominals. </span></span></span></h1><h1 class="header" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://i.lsimg.net/ui/images/header_border.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Arial Black', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; font-weight: 900; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://i.lsimg.net/ui/images/channel/default/dot.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 26px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-size: 36px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 13px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
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border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="description " style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The hip flexors are muscles that pull the thighs forward. You use them to walk, climb stairs and sit up. The main hip flexor muscle is the iliopsoas. It consists of two muscles -- the iliacus and psoas -- that reside deep in the abdomen near the spine. Frequent sitting makes them tight. Stretching the hip flexors can relieve tension built up from prolonged sitting.</div></section><section class="section" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="subHeader" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial Black', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">BENEFITS</h2><div class="description " style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Your hips move into a flexed position when you sit. Over time, this causes the hip flexors to tighten and become shorter. Tight hip flexors can lead to back pain, according to "Yoga Journal." They may also make your pelvis tilt forward, which compresses your lower back. The tilted position may inhibit movement in your lower back. Stretching the hip flexors -- either with yoga poses, hip stretches or using machines -- increases flexibility and allows the hip flexors to return to their normal length. You may experience greater range of motion in the hips, improved posture and a pain-free back.</div></section><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: left; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="section" id="DMINSTR" name="&ad_unit_network=GAP&ad_unit_type=CNT&revenue_basis=CPC&revenue_tag=art_sub_top_Lower_Body_Exercises,article_top_fitness,article_top&adunit_id=ca-livestrong_html&ad_position=T" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" type="adimpression"><div class="Text SponsoredResults Section" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="flc adsense_ad" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial Black', Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;">GUIDELINES</span></div><div class="flc adsense_ad" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial Black', Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">The Mayo Clinic recommends stretching for improving flexibility and range of motion, but only after a warmup. Spend five to 10 minutes performing a light aerobic exercise -- such as marching or running in place -- before you stretch. Alternatively, stretch after full workouts while your body is still warm. Always move slowly and gently while stretching. Never bounce in a stretch or go far enough to cause pain. The clinic advises holding stretches for approximately 30 seconds each.</span></div></div></div></div><section class="section" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="subHeader" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial Black', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">GYM</h2><div class="description " style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Your gym may have a machine for stretching the hip flexors; the machine resembles an upright stationary bike with only the seat and handlebars, not the pedals or middle section. To use this machine, stand in front of the handlebars, grip them with both hands and bend your right leg. Place the top of your foot and your right shin on the pad behind you. Bend your left leg while keeping your back straight and use your right leg to push your hips forward; stop when you feel a stretch in your right hip. Hold and then switch legs.</div></section><section class="section" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="subHeader" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial Black', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">PILATES</h2><div class="description " style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pilates is well known for improving flexibility and core strength. Modern Pilates includes machine exercises that can stretch your hip flexors. To stretch the hip flexors on a Pilates Reformer, kneel on the bench of the machine with your right knee and grip the handlebar with your arms straight. Position your left foot on the floor with your knee bent to 90 degrees and in line with the ankle. Keep your back straight and slide the bench back with your right knee until you feel a stretch in the front of your right hip. Hold and then switch sides.</div></section></article></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
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Read more: <a href="http://www.livestrong.com/article/555775-how-to-stretch-deep-in-the-hip-flexors-with-machines/#ixzz1nEQ220Is" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #003399; cursor: pointer; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.livestrong.com/article/555775-how-to-stretch-deep-in-the-hip-flexors-with-machines/#ixzz1nEQ220Is</a></span></span>Intermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-54572729609094181122012-02-21T14:21:00.000-07:002012-02-21T14:21:21.978-07:00Judging: A Four-Letter Word<h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, 'MS Trebuchet', 'Franklin Gothic'; font-size: 1.5em; letter-spacing: -1px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Love this article on the <a href="http://www.dailyspark.com/blog.asp?post=judging_its_a_fourletter_word_in_my_book">Daily Spark Blog</a> about being aware of when we might be judging ourselves and others on our fitness journey. I think most of us can agree that we'd like to have reached our fitness goals <i>yesterday, </i>that we don't want to be patient with ourselves and enjoy each day in our journey to fitness. It is easy to fall into comparing ourselves to those around us to feel better about our own fitness (or to beat ourselves up). This is truly our own ego seeking comfort, and pitts us against everyone else rather than celebrating all of our efforts. And what about the fact that everyone's fitness goals are different!? Some people are working to lose weight, others to build muscular strength, still others are more focused on cardiovascular strength. Some of us are rehabilitating an injury and that is our main focus. As hard as it is to keep focused on the bigger picture, we must remember that no matter how slowly we are moving, we are still lapping those sitting on the couch! And I'd like to add, if you've already worked hard all week, sit your butt down on the couch, let your body rest, and cheer on those that are doing their best ;)</h1><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, 'MS Trebuchet', 'Franklin Gothic'; font-size: 1.5em; letter-spacing: -1px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
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font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Michelene Cleary</a> : 2/16/2012 6:00 AM 88 comments : 10,190 Views</div></div><img alt="" border="0" id="blog_pic" src="http://www.dailyspark.com/blog_photos/143917348.jpg" style="background-color: white; float: left; font-family: arial, 'MS Trebuchet', 'Franklin Gothic'; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left;" /><div class="KonaBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, 'MS Trebuchet', 'Franklin Gothic'; text-align: left;">The informal definition of<em>judge</em> is to form an opinion or evaluation, or to act or decide as a judge. Why is this on my bad word for the day list? I’m tired of people judging, including myself as always, because when we judge we’re forming an opinion with very little evidence to go on. Case in point at the <a class="kLink" href="http://www.dailyspark.com/blog.asp?post=judging_its_a_fourletter_word_in_my_book#" id="KonaLink0" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-image: initial !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; bottom: 0px; color: blue; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static; right: 0px; top: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">gym</span></span></a> recently:<br />
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Last year I was a regular at a Zumba class at my gym. I loved and still love Zumba, but I had to take a long break due to shoulder surgery. There was a woman in this class at the time, who just like me, was working on getting healthy, toning up, and losing weight. (Notice how I put losing weight after getting healthy?) Anyone at the time could have judged us both as overweight, and in my case, slightly uncoordinated at dancing.<br />
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Now fast forward to last night – I was at the gym doing my leg weights as assigned by Mr. Squat Police, my demanding yet gentle trainer. I was using the Roman Chair that I fondly refer to as the chair of torture, which happened to be right in front of the glass window to the <a class="kLink" href="http://www.dailyspark.com/blog.asp?post=judging_its_a_fourletter_word_in_my_book#" id="KonaLink1" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-image: initial !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; bottom: 0px; color: blue; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static; right: 0px; top: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">aerobics</span></span></a> room. Zumba class was in session, and guess who is teaching? You guessed it, the lady I talked about above. Weight down, toned up, and instructing others on how to have some fun while burning calories. You should have seen how happy she was to be teaching. I actually crept into the back of her class for a little more than 10 minutes just to dance and enjoy the experience. Her enthusiasm made me genuinely happy.<br />
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My story since last year’s classes is that I’m fully rehabilitated from major shoulder surgery, now an ACE Certified <a class="kLink" href="http://www.dailyspark.com/blog.asp?post=judging_its_a_fourletter_word_in_my_book#" id="KonaLink2" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-image: initial !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; bottom: 0px; color: blue; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static; right: 0px; top: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">personal </span><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">trainer</span></span></a> and still maintaining a 90+ pound weight loss despite surgery. A year ago people probably wouldn’t have written that future out for me while they watched me doing the cha-cha. I was writing that future out for me in my thoughts, and making plans to execute it.<br />
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Cue up the third person in the story, a friend who was in that same class. She lost quite a bit of weight but then dropped out of the picture for awhile. She got busy with her family, a new job, etc., and I just didn’t see her for awhile. She was in class last night, up in front, working hard with everyone else. That also made me genuinely happy. She took a detour but got back on track and that is refreshing.<br />
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I joked around with my husband about going to the gym and battling it out for a chance to use equipment with the New Year’s Revolutionists, but this year I felt different about it. I walked around and tried to say hello to people I knew weren’t regulars. I hoped as I watched that they wouldn’t quit. That they would see and write a new future for themselves, instead of falling prey to hopelessness and defeat once again. I thought about when I joined the gym three years ago – would anyone have guessed <a class="kLink" href="http://www.dailyspark.com/blog.asp?post=judging_its_a_fourletter_word_in_my_book#" id="KonaLink3" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-image: initial !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; bottom: 0px; color: blue; cursor: pointer; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; left: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static; right: 0px; top: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">my </span><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">fitness</span></span></a> future? Why should I presume then to judge anyone else’s chances? When people met me when I was 50 pounds down, because they didn’t know me, would probably judge and say "geez, woman, lose some weight." So this goes through my mind when I see people now. I don’t know this person or their journey. Encourage them where they are at and see a better future for them that you can share if they give you the chance.<br />
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So my point is stop judging others about where they are in their fitness journey. Unless I missed the memo, there is no one currently living in the world that is perfect. (P.S. that includes you and me.) How about we spend that time and energy encouraging someone we see that needs it? I think I’ve probably freaked a few people out at the gym actually. I’ve been known to walk up to a woman who is walking in my old shoes and introduce myself out of the blue. I generally start with "Hi, my name is Michelene, and I want to encourage you. I’ve lost xxx amount of weight and I’ve got this great free resource that you can use at<a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/" style="color: #ff7b08; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" target="_blank">www.sparkpeople.com</a>. Have you heard of it?"<br />
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As usual, send me a message <a href="https://twitter.com/michelenecleary" style="color: #ff7b08; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">@michelenecleary</a> on Twitter and tell me how you tried to #EncourageSomeone today.<br />
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<strong><em>So my challenge for you today is to look in the mirror and ask yourself, do I encourage people or do I inappropriately judge others? Is there someone in my life that needs my encouragement instead of my judgment? Do I judge myself in a negative fashion? Do I need to let that go and encourage myself?</em></strong><br />
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</div>Intermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-21296561961308531732012-02-14T07:56:00.000-07:002012-02-14T07:56:19.671-07:00Maybe Narcissus Had it Right<h1 class="print-title"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love these Psychology Today posts! I hope you can all get something out of this. I know I'm still learning to love myself each day, and I think most of us could love ourselves more! Enjoy...</span></span></h1><h1 class="print-title" style="font-family: sans-serif;">Maybe Narcissus Had It Right</h1><div class="print-submitted" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">By <em>Jennifer Baumgartner, Psy.D.</em></div><div class="print-created" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">Created <em>Feb 14 2012 - 6:28am</em></div><div class="print-content" style="font-family: sans-serif;"><a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/punishment" style="color: black;" title="Psychology Today looks at Punishment"></a>Renowned for his <a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/beauty" style="color: black;" title="Psychology Today looks at Beauty">beauty</a>, Narcissus, was the object of affection for all who saw him. His disinterest for his admirers often led to their ultimate destruction, most notably Ameinius. In his desire to have Ameinius prove his love, Narcissus, sent him a sword upon which to fall. Before taking his own life for the love of Narcissus, Ameinius asked the gods to punish his vain paramour.<br />
Upon seeing his reflection in the water of a spring, the now cursed Narcissus, fell in love with his image. Although he tried to touch his reflection, possession was impossible. After he realized that he was the image in the spring, Narcissus took his own life, dying with the agony of unrequited love, as those who loved him had experienced.<br />
Aside from the obvious problematic cognitions and behaviors...self-objectification, lack of <a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/empathy" style="color: black;" title="Psychology Today looks at Empathy ">empathy</a>, impossible standards, inability of reciprocation, and madness...we can learn something from the man who loved himself above all else on this Valentine's Day.<br />
<em>Know your worth</em>: Narcissus knew he was all that and more. Although, his estimation of his worth was bloated and likely bordering on delusional, we often have the opposite problem. We think we are never enough! In an effort to compensate for our "less than" experience of the self, we may buy things we don't need, engage in activities we don't like, date those who are not deserving, self soothe with unhealthy behaviors, etc. Our existence alone denotes worth, taking the time to acknowledge yours without the distraction of your trappings, degrees, and relationships will bring you closer to true self-appreciation.<br />
<em>Shine: </em>All of us have something to be proud of. It can be our sense of <a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/humor" style="color: black;" title="Psychology Today looks at Humor">humor</a>, joie de vivre, analytical skills, service towards others, or artistic talent. These are pieces of the self that should be pursued, developed, and unabashedly magnified without <a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/fear" style="color: black;" title="Psychology Today looks at Fear">fear</a> that others will <a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/jealousy" style="color: black;" title="Psychology Today looks at Jealousy">envy</a> our successes. Nelson Mandela expresses this most eloquently:<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><em>Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful </em><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span><em>beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, </em><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span><em>Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You </em><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span><em>are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened </em><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span><em>about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, </em><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span><em>as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just </em><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span><em>in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other </em><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span><em>people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence </em><span style="white-space: pre;"><em> </em></span><em>automatically liberates others.</em><br />
<em>Embrace admiration</em>: On this day of hearts and kisses, you may overhear excessive praise, or witness unnecessary displays of affection. If you envy the admiration another receives, replace the "woe is me?" with "why not me?" Assume you have something that warrants praise. And when someone expresses an appreciation for all that makes you spectacular, I hope you will never again respond with a decline or surprise. Accept it!<br />
<em>Require action</em>: My ninety-year-old-Grammy has always said "Words are cheap." Narcissus knew this well.<em> </em>He was not satisfied with professions of love. Just ask Ameinius, who was required to fall on Narcissus' sword to prove his love. <em> </em><br />
You will hear "I love you," "You are the one," "I value you" but if these words are not operationalized into action they are empty. Hearing these professions of love are exciting, wonderful, and romantic, but they should not sustain a relationship if they are not followed by action. Remember my first point, you are worth it.<br />
<em>Love your reflection</em>: We may spend almost as much time as Narcissus staring at our reflection...but it is sadly not in admiration. Our time in front of the mirror may include an examination of our <a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/aging" style="color: black;" title="Psychology Today looks at Aging">aging</a>, criticism of our faces, and/or damnation of our bodies. If you can't stare at your reflection, like Narcissus, and love what you see minimize your time in front of the mirror. Our detail-oriented inspection is far harsher than the general assessment others make to judge our overall appearance. Take a quick look, find easy areas of improvement, make the necessary changes, and move on...preferably to those internal qualities that make you the most attractive.<br />
On this Valentine's Day, take a cue from the bad boy we would love to hate. Love all that you are and all that you are not. Expect to be loved, don't beg for it or be surprised when someone throws you a bone. And fearlessly develop and display those qualities that make you shine.<br />
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Happy Valentine's Day!<br />
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</div></div>Intermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-1284445548344024762012-01-24T17:26:00.000-07:002012-01-24T17:26:43.774-07:00Lesson in Vulnerability<div class="print-site_name" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif;">I love this article from Psychology Today. Do YOU believe that you are enough? Right now, just as you are? It's something I've been working on believing for the past year. I realized I mostly believe, "I'll be enough when I complete this, or accomplish that", but what about believing it RIGHT NOW? It's a daily journey, moment to moment, even, and requires mindfulness, patience, and compassion for yourself. I think Jaime Booth Cundy did a great job explaining. And I love her recommendation to listen to uplifting music, too! Any songs that pump you up emotionally? Please share in the comments! </div><div class="print-site_name" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="print-site_name" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif;">Published on <em>Psychology Today</em> (<a href="http://my.psychologytoday.com/" style="color: black;">http://my.psychologytoday.com</a>)</div><br style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif;" /><hr class="print-hr" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #9e9e9e; font-family: sans-serif; height: 1px; width: 1317px;" /><h1 class="print-title" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif;">Am I worthy? Lesson 1 in Vulnerability</h1><div class="print-submitted" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">By <em>Jaime Booth Cundy, BSW, MAPP</em></div><div class="print-created" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;">Created <em>Jan 24 2012 - 1:49pm</em></div><div class="print-content" style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif;"><a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://my.psychologytoday.com/basics/punishment" style="color: black;" title="Psychology Today looks at Punishment"></a>When I chose my <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-beauty-in-the-beast/201201/impatience-and-unhappiness" style="color: black;">"One word"</a> for 2012 I knew that it wasn't going to be easy. I know myself and how impossibly stubborn I can be and I knew that vulnerability was going to have to beat me over the head a few times before I started to understand. I wasn't quite sure when I was going to have to learn my first lesson, but it happened to me this morning while having breakfast with my friend.<br />
You know someone is your friend when they can look you dead in the eyes before you have had your first sip of coffee and ask: "Do you think that you are worthy of a genuine connection?". As I half-choked/half-swallowed my coffee down I could feel my eyes fill with water.<br />
"Pardon me?"<br />
"Do you think that you are worthy of connection"? She repeated without wavering.<br />
Thankfully the time that it took me to catch my breath allowed me to think of my honest answer. In those few seconds I realized something important - answering 'no' didn't scare me - answering 'yes' did.<br />
I know what 'no' feels like. I have lived 'no' for the vast majority of my life. 'No' is not a picnic and in fact it down right sucks. But it's familiar... almost comfortable. 'Yes' on the other hand is brand new territory, and like a kid learning to ride a<a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-beauty-in-the-beast/201106/what-is-the-secret-happiness" style="color: black;"> bike</a> I am a little wobbly.<br />
I don't think that I need to describe what 'no' feels like. Who out there hasn't felt <a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://my.psychologytoday.com/basics/embarrassment" style="color: black;" title="Psychology Today looks at Embarrassment">shame</a> and <a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://my.psychologytoday.com/basics/fear" style="color: black;" title="Psychology Today looks at Fear">fear</a> when thinking "I'm not _____ enough"? I've even thought it when people were giving me a compliment. My internal dialogue would drown them out thinking "If they knew what I was REALLY like...they wouldn't be saying that".<br />
Thinking and acting like that just feels terrible. It reminds me of when I used to smoke cigarettes. When I was a smoker I was a great smoker. I savoured every single drag of that cigarette. Until one day I didn't. I rationally knew that <a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://my.psychologytoday.com/basics/smoking" style="color: black;" title="Psychology Today looks at Smoking">smoking</a> was terrible for me and that every seemingly glorious inhale could be killing me on the inside. That's when I knew I wasn't a smoker anymore. It didn't happen over night, but I finally got to the point where having just one drag made me sick to my stomach. I know the process of moving into vulnerability and into genuine connection will be similar to quitting smoking. I have only just realized that I don't feel like I'm a 'no' anymore and the thought of feeling that way again makes me a little sick to my stomach.<br />
I feel like I am once again standing on the precipice of the <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-beauty-in-the-beast/201103/is-me" style="color: black;">bloukrans bungee</a>. I am about to jump, and I hope that my emotional bungee cord is strong enough to save me at the bottom.<br />
So when my friend looked across the table at me and asked 'do you think you are worthy'? The tears that welled up in my eyes were not because I wanted to say 'no' - they were because for the first time in a very long time I wanted to say 'YES!!!'. The trouble is that I don't have the first clue in how to be a 'yes'.<br />
So now what?<br />
Brene Brown gave me some much needed insight into vulnerability in her humorous, informative, and very real <a class="ext" href="http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html" style="color: black;" target="_blank">TED talk</a><span class="ext" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://my.psychologytoday.com/sites/all/modules/contrib/extlink/extlink.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 12px;"></span>. She identifies some of the main traits exhibited by people who believe they are worthy, people she describes as "Whole-hearted". As I listened to her speak I slowly began to realize how I had come to the point I was at now, about to jump. I had been moving towards vulnerability for some time. I just wasn't able to identify it as such;<br />
<h3><strong>Courage to be imperfect.</strong></h3><strong></strong>Brene describes this as the ability and courage to be who you are with your whole heart. I think that I have begun to understand this, and have touched on it in previous posts about being 'fully'<a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-beauty-in-the-beast/201103/is-me" style="color: black;">myself</a>.<br />
<h3><strong>Compassion...</strong> <strong>for yourself first</strong></h3>This is a tricky one. I have always been really good at neglecting myself; physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I thought I was really good at covering it up by looking after everyone around me. Looking back however I don't think that I was quite as good at it as I thought.<br />
I have always been accused of being 'too nice'. For the longest time I couldn't figure out how it was even possible to be 'too nice'? Isn't being 'nice' a good thing? While there is little doubt that I want to continue caring about those around me, there does need to be a balance. I have been far too focused on one aspect of compassion. I wasn't concerned with looking after myself; I was too busy looking after everyone else. It wasn't a matter of being 'too nice' it was a matter of being nice to everyone BUT myself. At the time I thought that this was a very noble path to take. I felt a like a martyr and there was something poetic to the deep sadness that I felt within. What I didn't realize was that by putting everyone else before me I was actually doing them a disservice. I was preventing them from know the authentic me. Even more so I was coming across as disingenuous. When people were telling me that I was 'too nice' I think that it was because they didn't fully buy into what I was selling. Whether they knew it or not they were seeing through my smoke screen and it unconsciously made them uncomfortable.<br />
I think that by practicing patience over the past year I have begun to be more compassionate with myself. Ironically as a result I feel like I am more <em>genuinely </em>compassionate with those around me. There is no pretense this time. I am not being 'too nice' to cover up for something else, I am doing it because it is real. I am not concerned with projecting the perfect image because I am embracing my imperfections. What I have come to realize is that the more I allow people to see me, the real me, the better I am at connecting... because I allow them to be imperfect as well.<br />
<h3><strong>Connection comes from authenticity</strong>. </h3>Brene found through her extensive study into vulnerability that the people who were able to experience true connection were those that, "were able to let go of who they thought they should be in order to become who they really were". To me this seems to be easier said than done. When you finally allow people to see who you are they may reject you and you can't protect your ego by saying that they didn't <em>really</em> know you. That thought alone terrifies me. The fear of rejection is something that we've all had to deal with because let's face it, rejection sucks. Unfortunately the reality of this world is that you aren't going to be everyone's cup of tea. Some people are going to see your imperfections and they will judge you, some will run for the hills, and some will straight up tell you how horrible you are. You can't hide from this fact and I am not going to sit here and tell you that it is an easy fear to overcome. Getting rejected for who you truly are hurts more deeply than I could have ever imagined. BUT the good news is that the benefits are well worth the risk. While some people will look at your imperfections and run...some people will look at them and embrace you with open arms. The feeling of being rejected for who you are may be horribly painful, but the feeling of acceptance...of true acceptance... is indescribable. To know that you can be yourself and not have to put on an act feels like freedom...it is liberating and comforting all at once. Dr. Seuss was a <a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://my.psychologytoday.com/basics/wisdom" style="color: black;" title="Psychology Today looks at Wisdom">wise</a> man when he said, "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."<br />
<h3><strong>Vulnerability</strong>,<strong> fully embrace it!</strong></h3>What I really took away from Brene's talk was the knowledge that those people who are truly vulnerable - those who are truly 'whole-hearted' - recognize that vulnerability can be uncomfortable but they do not judge it to be good or bad. They just accept that it is. It seems to come from a very deep feeling of peace and true acceptance of oneself. People that are fully vulnerable believe that what makes them vulnerable is what makes them beautiful. To them its not comfortable or excruciating - it just is. This is what allows them to do something where there are no guarantees, to invest in a relationship that may or may not work out. To be the first one to say "I love you".<br />
So as I sat in front of my friend I was scared, but I was still able to answer 'yes'. I was able to lean into the discomfort, and say that I fully believe that I am 'worthy' of a true connection. Instead of filling my mind with all the reasons that I'm NOT _____ enough, I will simplify and say:<br />
<strong><a class="ext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DIETlxquzY" style="color: black;" target="_blank">I am enough.</a><span class="ext" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://my.psychologytoday.com/sites/all/modules/contrib/extlink/extlink.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 12px;"></span></strong><br />
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(On a side note Music has always helped me to stay focused on a goal...and right now I can't get enough of <a class="ext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbN0nX61rIs" style="color: black;" target="_blank">'Shake it Out'</a><span class="ext" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://my.psychologytoday.com/sites/all/modules/contrib/extlink/extlink.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 12px;"></span> by Florence and the Machine. "Because it's hard to dance with a devil on your back..." Feel free to share your musical inspirations here!)</div>Intermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-28761650312077383492012-01-16T11:47:00.000-07:002012-01-16T11:47:19.717-07:00More Healthy Recipes, courtesy of goop!<table bgcolor="#e8f2f5" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; width: 600px;"><tbody>
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<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">3 medium zucchini, sliced lengthwise into ⅓-inch-thick slices</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 bunch scallions, white and light green parts only</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">2 chicken breast or salmon fillets (6 oz each)</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">coarse salt</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">2 heads butter lettuce, leaves separated, cut into thick strips</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">⅓ cup fresh cilantro, roughly chopped</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">¼ cup fresh basil, roughly torn</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 lime, quartered</li>
</ul><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;"><strong>Clean Balsamic & Lime Vinaigrette</strong></div><ul><li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 tablespoon brown rice syrup</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 tablespoon fresh lime juice</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">6 tablespoons olive oil</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">coarse salt</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">freshly ground black pepper</li>
</ul><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">Whisk vinegar with brown rice syrup and lime juice in a bowl. Slowly whisk in oil; add salt and pepper to taste. Set aside.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">Heat a grill or grill pan over medium-low heat. Rub zucchini, scallions and chicken or salmon with oil; sprinkle with salt. Grill vegetables and protein for about 20 minutes until browned and cooked through, flipping once. Cut zucchini and scallions into a medium dice. Slice avocado in half, discard pit and dice. Break chicken or salmon into large pieces. Toss grilled vegetables with lettuce, avocado, cilantro and basil; place on a large platter and top with salmon. Drizzle with vinaigrette; serve with lime quarters.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important; text-align: right;"><a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=a78e72ceea&e=8f48316a26" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important;" target="_blank"><img height="12" src="http://goop.com/newsletter/common/icon_print.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="15" /> <em>download a printable version</em></a></div></div></td></tr>
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<strong>Makes 4</strong></div><ul><li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">4 medium beets</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">½ pound green or mixed beans, trimmed</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1/4 cup toasted pine nuts</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">2 shallots, finely chopped</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 teaspoon Dijon mustard</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">2 tablespoons white wine vinegar</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">sea salt</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">freshly ground pepper</li>
</ul><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">Preheat oven to 400°F. Wash beets well and remove green tops if necessary. Line a roasting pan with aluminum foil and place the beets in the pan. Coat them with a tablespoon of olive oil and sprinkle with salt. Cover the beets with aluminum foil, place in the oven to roast for about an hour or until tender. Beets are done once they can be easily speared with a fork. Remove from oven and let cool. Alternatively, if you have a steamer or steam extension, you could steam the beets for about 40 minutes, or until soft.<br />
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Meanwhile, mix the shallots in a large bowl with the parsley, mustard and vinegar. Slowly whisk in the rest of the olive oil and season with salt and pepper to taste. Set aside. Bring 6 cups of water to a boil. Add the beans and let them cook for about 3 minutes. You just want to blanche the beans, not cook them through, so that they stay firm and beautifully bright green. Remove beans from the water and add them to the marinade. Once the beets have cooled, slice them as thin as you like, season with salt and pepper and arrange in a single layer over 4 large plates. Top with green beans, spooning any leftover marinade on top, and sprinkle with toasted pine nuts.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important; text-align: right;"><a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=b6fa4002cc&e=8f48316a26" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important;" target="_blank"><img height="12" src="http://goop.com/newsletter/common/icon_print.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="15" /> <em>download a printable version</em></a></div></div></td></tr>
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<strong>Makes 2</strong></div><ul><li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 lb (2-3 fillets) black cod</li>
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<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">3 tablespoons nama shoyu</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">½ cup white miso paste</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 tablespoon olive oil</li>
</ul><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">Mix the brown rice syrup, nama shoyu and white miso paste in a container (with lid) and set aside. Clean the fillets and pat them dry. Place the fish into the container, coat them with the marinade, cover and refrigerate overnight.<br />
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Preheat the oven to 400°F. Remove the fish from the fridge and scrape off the marinade. Coat a grill pan with olive oil and set to high heat. Add the fish and cook until browned on each side, about 2 minutes. Transfer the fillets to the oven and bake for about 10 minutes, until nice and flaky.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important; text-align: right;"><a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=661cd59ea7&e=8f48316a26" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important;" target="_blank"><img height="12" src="http://goop.com/newsletter/common/icon_print.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="15" /> <em>download a printable version</em></a></div></div></td></tr>
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<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">2 large cloves garlic, minced</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">2 teaspoons smoked paprika, plus more for garnish</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">½ teaspoon sea salt</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">½ teaspoon freshly ground pepper</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1⁄3 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for garnish</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1⁄3 cup tahini</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">optional garnishes: roasted red bell peppers, roasted garlic, lemon slices, olives, mint or parsley sprigs</li>
</ul><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">If using dried chickpeas, put them in a saucepan or bowl and add cold water to cover by about 2 inches. Soak in the refrigerator for at least 6 hours or overnight. Drain and rinse.<br />
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Put the chickpeas in a saucepan and add cold water to cover by about 2 inches. Bring to a boil, decrease the heat, cover, and simmer until the chickpeas are tender, 50 to 60 minutes. Drain and let cool, reserving ¼ to ½ cup of the cooking water.<br />
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Combine the chickpeas, garlic, lemon juice, cayenne, paprika, salt, pepper, parsley, olive oil, and tahini in a bowl and stir to mix well. Transfer the mixture to a food processor fitted with the metal blade and process until well mixed. Add ¼ cup of the reserved cooking liquid (or water or vegetable stock if using canned chickpeas) and process until smooth and almost fluffy. Add more liquid if necessary. Scrape down the sides of the bowl once or twice. Transfer to a serving bowl and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. (The hummus can be made up to 3 days ahead and refrigerated. Return to room temperature before serving.)<br />
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To serve, drizzle a bit of olive oil over the hummus and sprinkle a bit of paprika. Serve with desired garnishes.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important; text-align: right;"><a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=32f18728d0&e=8f48316a26" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important;" target="_blank"><img height="12" src="http://goop.com/newsletter/common/icon_print.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="15" /> <em>download a printable version</em></a></div></div></td></tr>
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<strong>Makes 6 to 8 burgers</strong></div><ul><li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1½ cups dried black beans, rinsed and picked over</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1-inch piece of kombu</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">2 cups chopped yellow onions</li>
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<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">2 teaspoons salt</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">pinch of freshly ground pepper</li>
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<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">3 cups water</li>
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<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 cup raw pumpkin seeds</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 tablespoon smoked paprika</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 red onion and avocado, sliced, and fresh lettuce for serving</li>
</ul><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">Put the beans in a saucepan or bowl and add cold water to cover by about 2 inches. Cover and soak for at least 6 hours or overnight in the refrigerator. Drain and rinse.<br />
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Put the beans, kombu, onions, chipotle powder, bay leaves, 1 teaspoon of the salt, and the pepper in a large saucepan. Add water to cover by 3 inches and bring to a boil. Decrease the heat, cover, and simmer until the beans are tender, about 1½ to 2 hours. Most of the liquid should be absorbed by the beans, but add a bit more water if they seem too dry. Drain the beans, reserving the cooking liquid. Discard the kombu and bay leaves.<br />
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Meanwhile, put the rice and a pinch of salt in a saucepan and add the water. Bring to a boil, then decrease the heat, stir once, cover, and simmer until all of the water is absorbed and the rice is tender, 35 to 40 minutes. Remove from the heat and let stand, covered, for 10 minutes.<br />
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Heat the olive oil in a sauté pan over medium-high heat. Add the pumpkin seeds, paprika, and the remaining 1 teaspoon of salt and season with pepper. Cook the pumpkin seeds, stirring and shaking the pan, until they are lightly toasted, 3 to 5 minutes. Set aside to cool.<br />
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Combine the rice, beans, and pumpkin seeds in a large bowl. Transfer half of the mixture to a food processor fitted with the metal blade and process until smooth, adding the reserved cooking liquid from the beans as needed to keep the mixture moist enough to stick together. Return the mixture to the bowl, mix everything together, and form patties about 3½ inches in diameter and 1 inch thick.<br />
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To bake the burgers, preheat the oven to 350°F. Brush a baking sheet with olive oil and put the burgers on it. Brush the burgers with oil and bake until browned, 20 to 30 minutes, turning the burgers halfway through cooking. To pan-fry the burgers, coat a sauté pan with olive oil and heat the pan over medium heat. Add the burgers and cook for about 4 minutes per side. Serve over fresh lettuce, sliced onion and avocado.<br />
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<em>Reprinted with permission from Candle 79 Cookbook: Modern Vegan Classics from New York’s Premier Sustainable Restaurant. Copyright © 2011 by Joy Pierson, Angel Ramos, and Jorge Pineda. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, Berkeley, CA. Photo credit: Rita Maas.</em></div><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important; text-align: right;"><a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=80363eddb4&e=8f48316a26" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important;" target="_blank"><img height="12" src="http://goop.com/newsletter/common/icon_print.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="15" /> <em>download a printable version</em></a></div></div></td></tr>
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</ul><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">Preheat oven to 425°F. Peel and de-seed your butternut squash before slicing it into fry shapes. Stick them on a baking sheet, sprinkle with olive oil and salt and pop them into the oven. Bake for about 40 minutes, turning the fries halfway through. Remove from oven when they start to brown and crisp up.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important; text-align: right;"><a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=cf24cd64e5&e=8f48316a26" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important;" target="_blank"><img height="12" src="http://goop.com/newsletter/common/icon_print.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="15" /> <em>download a printable version</em></a></div></div></td></tr>
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<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">2 ½ tablespoons finely chopped root ginger</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 ½ teaspoon chilli powder</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">2 cups chicken stock</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 teaspoon black peppercorns</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 tablespoon cane sugar (replace with 1 tablespoon brown rice syrup for goop cleanse)</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 tablespoon tamari soy sauce or shoyu soy sauce</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 tablespoon cornflour, ground arrowroot or crushed kuzu (use arrowroot or kuzu for goop cleanse)</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">2 cups cooked brown basmati rice</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 teaspoon salt</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">steamed broccoli, cut into bite-sized florets, to serve</li>
</ul><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">Heat the oil in a large, heavy-based frying pan over a medium-high heat. Add the chicken and cook for 3-4 minutes on each side until browned.<br />
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Add the spring onions, ginger, chilli powder, stock, peppercorns, sugar and tamari to the pan. Bring to the boil over a medium-high heat, then turn the heat down to low and simmer, covered, for 30-35 minutes until the chicken is tender and cooked through.<br />
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In a small bowl, mix the cornflour and 1 tablespoon cold water together to make a smooth paste. Remove the chicken from the frying pan and stir the cornflour mixture into the liquid remaining in the pan. Stir over a medium heat for 5 minutes or until the sauce is thick and glossy. Put the cooked brown basmati rice in a large bowl, add the salt and mix well. Serve the chicken with the sauce poured over the top and with the rice and steamed broccoli.<br />
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<strong>For 6-9 month-old infants: Chicken, Broccoli & Brown<br />
Basmati Rice Purée</strong><br />
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Put 2 tablespoons of the cooked brown basmati rice, 1 ¾ oz of the browned chicken and a generous ½ cup boiling water in a saucepan. Bring to the boil over a high heat, then turn the heat down to low and simmer, covered, for 10 minutes. Add 2 tablespoons of steamed broccoli and simmer, covered, for a further 10 minutes until the rice is completely soft and the chicken is completely cooked through. Transfer to a blender and add 3 tablespoons water. Blend for 30 seconds, adding extra water 1 teaspoon at a time, until smooth. Serve warm.<br />
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<strong>For 9-12 month-old infants: Chicken, Veggies & Brown Basmati Rice</strong><br />
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Put 2 tablespoons of the cooked brown basmati rice, 1 ¾ oz of the browned chicken, 1 teaspoon of the spring onions and a generous ½ cup boiling water in a saucepan. Bring to the boil over a high heat, then turn the heat down to low and simmer, covered, for 10 minutes. Add 2 tablespoons of steamed broccoli and simmer, covered, for a further 10 minutes until the rice is completely soft and the chicken is completely cooked through. Transfer to a blender and add 3 tablespoons water. Pulse for 15 seconds, adding extra water 1 teaspoon at a time, until the mixture forms a lumpy purée. Serve warm.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important; text-align: right;"><a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=653b7cfc29&e=8f48316a26" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important;" target="_blank"><img height="12" src="http://goop.com/newsletter/common/icon_print.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="15" /> <em>download a printable version</em></a></div></div></td></tr>
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<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">3 salmon steaks</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 cauliflower, sliced into rounds</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">¼ teaspoon fine sea salt</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 red onion, thinly sliced into rings</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">4 tablespoon small capers in salt or brine, drained and rinsed</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">3 garlic cloves, finely chopped</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">4 tablespoon chopped parsley leaves</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">freshly ground black pepper</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">2 cups cooked brown rice to serve</li>
</ul><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">Preheat the oven to 400°F and grease a large baking tray with 2 tablespoons of the oil. Arrange the salmon and cauliflower in a single layer on the bottom of the baking tray and drizzle the remaining oil over the top. Sprinkle with the salt and season with pepper. Top each salmon steak with ⅓ of the onion rings.<br />
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Bake for 15-20 minutes until the cauliflower is tender and browned around the edges and the salmon is opaque and cooked through. Serve hot with the capers, garlic and parsley sprinkled over the top, and with the cooked brown rice.<br />
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<strong>For 6-9 month-old infants: Salmon & Cauliflower Purée</strong><br />
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Remove the skin and any bones from 1 ¾ oz of the salmon. Transfer to a greased baking dish, add 6 cauliflower florets and bake as above for 20 minutes until the salmon is opaque and completely cooked through and the cauliflower is completely soft. Transfer to a blender and add 3 tablespoons water. Blend for 30 seconds, adding extra water 1 teaspoon at a time, until smooth. Serve warm.<br />
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<strong>For 9-12 month-old infants: Baked Salmon & Vegetables</strong><br />
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Remove the skin and any bones from 1 ¾ oz of the salmon. Transfer to a greased baking dish, add 6 cauliflower florets and 1 onion ring and bake as above for 20 minutes until the salmon is opaque and completely cooked through and the vegetables are completely soft. Transfer to a blender and add 3 tablespoons water. Pulse for 15 seconds, adding extra water 1 teaspoon at a time, until the mixture forms a lumpy purée. Serve warm.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important; text-align: right;"><a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=70846fb49d&e=8f48316a26" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important;" target="_blank"><img height="12" src="http://goop.com/newsletter/common/icon_print.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="15" /> <em>download a printable version</em></a></div></div></td></tr>
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<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">40 green beans, trimmed</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 teaspoon fine sea salt</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">2 cups cooked brown sushi rice or brown short grain rice</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">10 nori sheets, halved lengthways</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">½ tablespoon wasabi (optional)</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 beetroot, grated</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">1 ¾ oz sprouts such as alfalfa, broccoli or mung (optional)</li>
</ul><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;"><strong>For the Sauce:</strong></div><ul><li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">2 avocados, peeled, pitted and mashed</li>
<li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">2 tablespoons mayonnaise (I'd use soy-free Vegenaise here for the goop cleanse)</li>
</ul><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;">Put the asparagus and green beans in a steamer and steam, covered, for 5 minutes until the vegetables are cooked but still slightly crunchy. Add the salt to the cooked brown sushi rice and mix well.<br />
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To make the sauce, mix together the avocados and mayonnaise in a bowl until smooth.<br />
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To make a hand roll, spread 1 tablespoon of the sauce diagonally down the centre of one nori sheet, then add a little wasabi on top, if using. Put 1 tablespoon of the cooked brown sushi rice, 1 piece of asparagus, 2 green beans and 1 tablespoon each of the beetroot and sprouts, if using, on top of the sauce. Take the nori sheet in your hand and roll into a cone shape. Repeat with the remaining ingredients and serve.<br />
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<strong>For 6-9 month-old infants: Green Bean, Avocado & Rice Purée</strong><br />
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Put 4 tablespoons of the cooked brown sushi rice and a generous ½ cup boiling water in a saucepan and simmer, covered, over a low heat for 10 minutes. Add 4 green beans and cook, covered, for a further 10 minutes until completely soft. Transfer to a blender and add 2 tablespoons of the avocado and 3 tablespoons water. Blend for 30 seconds, adding extra water 1 teaspoon at a time, until smooth. Serve warm.<br />
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<strong>For 9-12 month-old infants: Vegetables, Avocado, Sprouts, Beetroot & Rice</strong><br />
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Put 4 tablespoons of the cooked brown sushi rice and a generous ½ cup boiling water in a saucepan and simmer, covered, over a low heat for 10 minutes. Add 2 green beans and 1 asparagus piece and cook for a further 10 minutes until completely soft. Transfer to a blender and add 2 tablespoons of the avocado, 1 tablespoon each of the beetroot and sprouts, if using, and 3 tablespoons water. Pulse for 15 seconds, adding extra water 1 teaspoon at a time, until the mixture forms a lumpy purée. Serve warm.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important; text-align: right;"><a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=a642753577&e=8f48316a26" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important;" target="_blank"><img height="12" src="http://goop.com/newsletter/common/icon_print.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" width="15" /> <em>download a printable version</em></a></div><div style="color: #444444; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; padding-top: 0px !important;"><strong>Note:</strong> <a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=a1657f3b25&e=8f48316a26" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68) !important;" target="_blank">Whole Foods</a> is a great supermarket for all those hard-to-find ingredients like spelt and brown rice syrup.<br />
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This past year, the travel company sent three guys on a 44-day round-the-world trip and then turned their journey into a series of three emotive 60-second videos. Director </span><a href="http://www.rickmereki.com/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Rick Mereki">Rick Mereki</a><span style="color: #4d4d4f; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> shot the </span><a href="http://vimeo.com/27243869" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Eat, Move, Learn">Eat, Move, Learn</a><span style="color: #4d4d4f; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;"> videos while traveling in 11 countries before publishing them this past August. 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<article style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><time pubtime="2012-01-03" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tuesday, January 03, 2012</time></article>Intermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-61480272803448946982012-01-06T10:20:00.000-07:002012-01-06T10:20:52.817-07:00Forget Resolutions--Try a Habit instead!<h2 style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Loved this post from <a href="http://zenhabits.net/fitguide/">Zen Habits</a>. Do you shy away from making New Year's Resolutions? Maybe this is a better approach for you! </span></h2><h2 style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 2.2em; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A Compact Guide to Creating the Fitness Habit</h2><div class="post" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><h6 style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1.5px; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Post written by <a href="http://leobabauta.com/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: #303030; text-decoration: none;">Leo Babauta</a>.</h6><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">A new year, a new slate of resolutions.</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Perhaps the biggest resolution at New Year’s is to get fit — start exercising, start eating right, and all that jazz.</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">But resolutions never last. As you might already know, I’m not a fan of resolutions.</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Instead of creating a list of resolutions this year, create a new habit.</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Habits last, and they lead to long-term fitness (and more). They require more patience, but they are worth the wait.</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">As some of you know, fitness habits are what started me along the path to changing my life. I quit smoking, started running. Then I started eating healthier, became vegetarian (now vegan), quit the junk food addiction, started doing other types of workouts (bodyweight, weights, Crossfit, anything that was fun).</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">And six years later, I’m nearly 39 years old and in the best shape of my life. I have less bodyfat than any time since high school, more muscle than ever in my life, and I can run and hike and play longer than anytime in the history of Leo. That’s not to brag, but to show you what can be done with some simple fitness habits.</div><h3 style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-indent: 0px;">Reshaping Through Habits</h3><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">The appealing thing about many fitness programs is that they promise quick results. You see testimonials from people who have gone through the program and lost 30 lbs. and gain a washboard stomach in just 4 weeks!</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">That’s all complete crap.</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">First, most people won’t achieve those results. Second, and more importantly, if you do get quick results, you’ll reverse those results very quickly … because you haven’t created new habits. You’ve just done something intense and unsustainable for a short period of time. That’s nearly worthless.</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">You should be focused on long-term results, and more importantly on a healthy lifestyle. A healthy lifestyle starts with changing your habits and ends with long-term results.</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Changing habits takes time. I recommend one habit at a time, and give yourself about a month per habit. That takes patience, but you shouldn’t try to see amazing results in just 30 days. You should enjoy your new lifestyle, which will be an amazing result in itself that you can achieve immediately. In a matter of months and years, your body and health will change too.</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Let’s say you change one habit at a time, one per month or so. You’ll have 12 new habits every year. Even if you only formed 6 habits that stuck and that you loved, you’d be amazed at what kind of changes those 6 habits would create in your life and fitness. If you did 6 habits a year for three years, you’d be transformed.</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">If you don’t have the patience to change one habit at a time, or focus on enjoying your new habits rather than getting quick results, you should stop reading now.</div><h3 style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-indent: 0px;">Which Habits to Choose</h3><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">So let’s say you’re just starting out … what habit should you start with?</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">My favorite habit is daily exercise, but if you’re looking to lose weight probably the most important habits relate to eating.</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">In truth, which habit you choose first matters very little in the long run. You will be changing many little habits over the course of the next few years, and the order of those habits is unimportant. What matters is that you start.</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Here are some habits that I’d start with, if you haven’t created them yet:</div><ul style="font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 3.2em; padding-right: 0em; padding-top: 0.5em;"><li style="color: #333333; line-height: 29px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">Exercise for just 5 minutes a day, adding 5 minutes per week. Make it a fun exercise.</li>
<li style="color: #333333; line-height: 29px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">Drink water instead of sweet drinks.</li>
<li style="color: #333333; line-height: 29px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">Replace fried foods with vegetables.</li>
<li style="color: #333333; line-height: 29px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">Eat fruit and nuts for snacks.</li>
<li style="color: #333333; line-height: 29px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">Eat lean protein, including plant proteins, instead of red meat.</li>
<li style="color: #333333; line-height: 29px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">Add strength exercises to your routine — pushups, pullups, squats, lunges.</li>
<li style="color: #333333; line-height: 29px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;">If you’ve been doing all of the above for awhile, add some weights — compound lifts like squats, deadlifts, bench presses, dips, chinups, overhead presses and rows.</li>
</ul><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">I’ve found that losing weight is simple: eat lots of veggies and plant or lean protein, reduce calories, do some kind of cardio, lift some weights to preserve muscle.</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Gaining muscle is also fairly simple: eat lots of veggies and plant or lean protein, increase calories, do some kind of cardio to preserve heart health, lift heavy weights to grow muscle.</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">The weights should be compound lifts and heavy, the cardio should be enjoyable. Getting “toned”, btw, is just gaining muscle and losing the fat that covers the muscle, whether you’re a man or woman.</div><h3 style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-indent: 0px;">Forming the Habit</h3><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">These are my top principles for forming habits. If you’ve read my writings on habits before, this won’t be new to you, but often it’s good to review these principles for things you’ve missed:</div><ol style="font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; padding-bottom: 0em; padding-left: 3.2em; padding-right: 0em; padding-top: 0.5em;"><li style="color: #333333; line-height: 29px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;"><strong>Make it social</strong>. This is an incredibly powerful too. I highly, highly recommend <a href="http://fitocracy.com/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: #303030; text-decoration: none;">Fitocracy</a> to everyone, as it’s a way to make exercise fun and social (invite code: ZENHABITS). It turns fitness into a game, and you log your exercises, get points, encourage others, complete fitness quests, get props for workouts you’ve done. Other great ways to make your habit change social: report on your daily progress to friends and family through Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or email, find a workout partner, get a coach, join a running group, join online fitness forums, join a class.</li>
<li style="color: #333333; line-height: 29px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;"><strong>Do one habit at a time only</strong>. People often skip this one because they think they are different than everyone else, but I’ve found this to be extremely effective. You increase your odds of success with just one habit at a time, for many reasons: habits are hard to form because they require lots of focus and energy, having many habits means you’re spreading yourself too thin, and if you can’t commit to one habit at a time, you’re not fully committed.</li>
<li style="color: #333333; line-height: 29px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;"><strong>Make it your top priority</strong>. People often put off fitness and diet stuff because they’re too busy, too tired, to stressed out by big projects or the holidays, etc. But in my experience, those are great reasons you *should* be exercising. So make your new diet or exercise habit one of your absolute top priorities for the day. If you don’t have time, you need to make time.</li>
<li style="color: #333333; line-height: 29px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;"><strong>Enjoy the habit</strong>. This is extremely important, and most people ignore it. If the habit is fun, you will stick with it longer. And even better, if you are enjoying it, you immediately win. You don’t need to wait for a bunch of pounds lost or other results — you get instant results because you’re enjoying the change. I find activities I enjoy, I join challenges or races to make exercise fun, I enjoy a conversation with a friend during a run, I eat healthy foods that are delicious (berries — yum!) and focus on savoring those foods. Focus on the enjoyment, and don’t make the habit change a big sacrifice.</li>
</ol><h3 style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; text-indent: 0px;">Final Recommendations</h3><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Many people set fitness goals for the year. I’ve done it myself, but lately I’ve found that I can get fit without them. For one thing, when you set goals, they are often arbitrary, and so you are spending all your effort working towards a basically meaningless number. And then if you don’t achieve it, you feel like you failed, even if the number was arbitrary to start with.</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">You can create habits without goals — I define goals as a predefined outcome that you’re striving for, not activities that you just want to do. So is creating a habit a goal? It can be, or you can approach it with the attitude of “it doesn’t matter what the outcome of this habit change is, but I want to enjoy the change as I do it”.</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">So enjoy the habit change, in the moment, and don’t worry what the outcome of the activity is. The outcome matters very little, if you enjoy the journey.</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">The journey to fitness can have an infinite number of paths, and setting your path in advance by setting goals is limiting. Allow yourself to change course on a whim, without guilt of not achieving a goal, and you’ll find new paths you’d never have anticipated when you set out.</div><div style="color: #333333; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Hoefler Text', Georgia, bodyfont, serif; line-height: 30px !important; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">But the most important step of the journey is the first one. After that, the most important step is the one you’re presently taking. So take that step, and enjoy it.</div></div>Intermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-9880288838147243212012-01-03T09:26:00.000-07:002012-01-03T09:26:20.512-07:00New Year, New Classes!Happy New Year, everyone! <br />
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<b>Tuesdays at 7:00-8:00</b> <b>AM</b>: <b>Pilates Basics</b>; Learn the essential STOTT Pilates technique and exercises so you can get the most out of your group classes and other workouts! Great for beginners and those who want to improve their overall technique.<br />
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<b>Wednesdays at 12:10-1:00 PM</b>: <b>Express Pilates</b>; Get your 60 minute workout done in 50 minutes! We'll be using the reformer, stability chair, and spring wall.<br />
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<b>Thursdays at 5:30-6:30 PM</b>: <b>Pilates Basics</b>; Learn the essential STOTT Pilates technique and exercises so you can get the most out of your group classes and other workouts! Great for beginners and those who want to improve their overall technique.<br />
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<b>Fridays at 9:00-10:00 AM</b>: <b>Athletic Conditioning</b>; This class is great for everyone, but is specifically designed to challenge your coordination and control which is great for every type of exercise you do! If you've been coming to our classes you will have done a lot of these exercises! <br />
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Remember that you can register online at <a href="http://www.iptconline.com/">www.iptconline.com</a><br />
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Thanks and we hope to see you soon!Intermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-31110212794126006502011-12-21T15:46:00.000-07:002011-12-21T15:46:58.489-07:005 Ways to Have the Healthiest Lazy Day Ever<h1 class="entry-title" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.9em; line-height: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The holidays, though magical, are stressful! So when you finally take a day off, don't feel guilty giving yourself a break! Here are some zero guilt ways to de-stress yourself before you wreck yourself...(thanks to www.glamour.com)</span></h1><h1 class="entry-title" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.9em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br />
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</ul><div class="entry-content" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Are you taking any time off for the holidays? If you're looking forward to a few days of not waking up to the beep of an alarm clock, or rushing madly out the door to battle traffic, or--oh, I'll just say it--not doing <em>anything at all,</em> fear not: a lot of things that <em>seem</em> lazy really aren't. Especially when it comes to your health!</div><div id="entry-more" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="1219-lazy-healthy-day_vg.jpg" class="mt-image-none" height="495" src="http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/blogs/vitamin-g/2011/12/19/1219-lazy-healthy-day_vg.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" width="330" /></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">I used to <em>live</em> for vacations because it meant one very glorious thing: sleeping in. Of course, that was pre-babies. I long for laziness, ladies (it will again be mine someday!), and here's one of the reasons why: these lazy-day activities are actually good for you.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong>1: Sleep in. </strong>Otherwise known as <em>heaven</em>. Logging lots of shuteye comes with a slew of benefits: it may help keep you at a healthy weight (or even <a href="http://www.glamour.com/magazine/2009/02/lose-weight-while-you-sleep" style="color: #660022; text-decoration: none;">help you <em>lose</em> weight</a>), it could boost your memory, it'll give you more stamina at your next workout and it could even <a href="http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/blogs/vitamin-g/2011/11/one-more-excellent-reason-to-g.html" style="color: #660022; text-decoration: none;">improve your sex life</a>.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong>2: Linger over breakfast.</strong> Breakfast is important, of course--breakfast-skippers don't get the energy boost that breakfast-eaters do (or the possibility of burning more calories all day long!). But enjoying a nice, slow breakfast--i.e., not gulped while running between your car and the office--can help you, too: eating slowly means better digestion and more food satisfaction (you'll feel fuller, longer).</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong>3: Go to the movies.</strong> Research has shown that watching a comedy--and laughing!--reduces the amount of stress hormones in your body, replacing them instead with the kinds that make you feel good. It may even lower blood pressure. And don't forget to snack! Just not on the 1500-calorie buttered popcorn. Try the smart snack pack at AMC theaters, which includes fruit chips, water, and popped corn chips.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong>4: Read a book.</strong> Studies point out that reading lowers stress levels and might even stimulate brain cells to help prevent memory loss.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong>5: Snuggle up. And do nothing else.</strong> Warm blankie, check. Slippers, check. Significant other, check. A recent study showed that every minute spent hugging and cuddling your loved one results in marked levels of reduced stress and anxiety, plus lowered blood pressure. Snuggling with Fido and Fluffy totally count, too.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong>What are your favorite lazy-day activities? Is there anything you're really looking forward to this winter break?</strong></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong>More <a href="http://www.glamour.com/about/women-health" style="color: #660022; text-decoration: none;">healthy choices when you're feeling a little (or, hey, a lot) lazy</a>:</strong><br />
* <a href="http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/2010/04/the-lazy-girls-guide-to-the-grocery-store" style="color: #660022; text-decoration: none;">The Lazy Girl's Guide to the Grocery Store</a><br />
* <a href="http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/blogs/vitamin-g/2009/03/the-lazy-girls-guide-to-spring.html" style="color: #660022; text-decoration: none;">The Lazy Girl's Guide to Spring Cleaning</a><br />
*<a href="http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/blogs/vitamin-g/2011/06/the-best-workout-you-can-do-wh.html" style="color: #660022; text-decoration: none;"> The Best Workout You Can Do When You Can't Do Much (Or Are Just Feeling a Little Lazy)</a></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></div></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 13px;"><span><br />
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Read More <a href="http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/blogs/vitamin-g/2011/12/6-ways-to-have-the-healthiest.html?printable=true#ixzz1hDCCwshZ" style="color: #003399; text-decoration: none;">http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/blogs/vitamin-g/2011/12/6-ways-to-have-the-healthiest.html?printable=true#ixzz1hDCCwshZ</a></span></span>Intermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-92126707372393183302011-12-14T07:24:00.000-07:002011-12-14T07:24:16.824-07:007 books with personality<div class="storylocation" id="storytext" style="clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; height: 347px; margin-bottom: 18px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="dateblock" style="margin-bottom: 10px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"><span class="date" style="color: #999999; font-size: 0.85em; font-style: italic;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Looking for a new book to read? Check out this review from </span></span></span></b><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/12/13/143354443/7-books-with-personality-nancy-pearls-2011-picks?sc=fb&cc=fp"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">www.npr.org</span></span></span></b></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">! </span></span></span></b> </span></div><div class="dateblock" style="margin-bottom: 10px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"><span class="date" style="color: #999999; font-size: 0.85em; font-style: italic;"><br />
</span></div><div class="dateblock" style="margin-bottom: 10px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"><span class="date" style="color: #999999; font-size: 0.85em; font-style: italic;">December 13, 2011</span></div><div style="font-size: 0.85em; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Although all works of fiction and narrative nonfiction have characters — be they animals, hobbits, dragons, humans, werewolves or whatever — I've found that there are some books in which these characters are three-dimensional and awfully interesting. (Whether or not they're likable is another question.) These characters become, as the story progresses, more and more real to me. It's as though they've become good friends.</div><div style="font-size: 0.85em; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I'm always on the lookout for this kind of book, but they're not always easy to find. Oh, I've read plenty of novels in which the characters are pleasant enough, but they're not particularly memorable. The sort of book I'm talking about here leaves you with a longing to find out what happened to the characters after the book ended. Here are some books — six novels and a work of history — that have marvelously evoked characters.</div></div><div class="storylocation" id="storyspan03" style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="bucketwrap list booklist" id="res143354795" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-width: initial; float: none; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="" name="member143354825" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"></a><div class="bucket listitem booklistitem" id="res143354825" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 27px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 27px;"><div class="bucketwrap photo138" id="res137892097" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 138px;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=137892078" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="In Zanesville" class="img138" src="http://media.npr.org/assets/bakertaylor/covers/i/in-zanesville/9780316084475_custom.jpg?t=1312566072&s=1" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 24px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 138px;" title="In Zanesville" width="138" /></a><div class="captionwrap"><div style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></div></div><div class="bucketblock" style="display: table;"><h3 style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/books/titles/137892078/in-zanesville-a-novel" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">In Zanesville</a></h3><h4 style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: capitalize;">A Novel</h4><div class="bookMeta" style="margin-bottom: 15px; position: relative;"><div class="author" style="color: #666666; float: left; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">by <a href="http://www.npr.org/books/authors/137892083/jo-ann-beard" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;"><span>Jo Ann Beard</span></a></div><span class="bull" style="color: #666666; float: left; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 0px;">•</span><div class="bookedition" id="res137892093" style="color: #666666; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: static;"><span class="format">Hardcover, </span><span class="pagination">289 pages</span></div></div><div class="capsulereview"><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I don't think I'll ever forget the unnamed, perfectly realized 14-year-old narrator of<em>In Zanesville</em>. It's a marvelous reading experience. Jo Ann Beard, whose first book was <em>The Boys of My Youth</em>, a dozen autobiographical essays, has captured the terror, joy, uncertainties and angst of growing up in small-town 1970s America. Best friends, big sisters, boys, baby-sitting, band uniforms, clothes-buying expeditions — Beard has captured what being 14 is like. And the writing is simply radiant. In one chapter, the narrator describes her childhood reading experiences, all of which took place sitting behind a "green velvet chair in the corner of the living room." Here's what she says:</div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em>This is where the pivotal events of my childhood unfolded, while I ate banana and root beer Popsicles, two by two, tucking the sticks neatly under the skirt of the chair. It's where Sunnybank Lad met Lady, Ken met his friend Flicka, Atlanta burned, Manderley burned, Lassie came home, Jim ran away, Alice got small, Wilbur got big, David Copperfield was born, Beth died, and, on an endless gloomy winter afternoon, Jody shot his yearling.</em></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">(And here I thought that I was the only person alive in this world who still remembered reading Albert Payson Terhune's books about Lad of Sunnybank Farm.)</div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In the spirit of full disclosure, I do have to say that I gave this book to both of my grown daughters and, independently, they each told me they found it too depressing.</div></blockquote></div></div></div><a href="" name="member143355870" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"></a><div class="bucket listitem booklistitem" id="res143355870" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 27px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 27px;"><div class="bucketwrap photo138" id="res143355930" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 138px;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/books/titles/143355898/a-world-on-fire-britains-crucial-role-in-the-american-civil-war" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="A World on Fire" class="img138" src="http://media.npr.org/assets/bakertaylor/covers/a/a-world-on-fire/9780375504945_custom.jpg?t=1323363931&s=1" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 24px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 138px;" title="A World on Fire" width="138" /></a><div class="captionwrap"><div style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></div></div><div class="bucketblock" style="display: table;"><h3 style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/books/titles/143355898/a-world-on-fire-britains-crucial-role-in-the-american-civil-war" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">A World On Fire</a></h3><h4 style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: capitalize;">Britain's Crucial Role In The American Civil War</h4><div class="bookMeta" style="margin-bottom: 15px; position: relative;"><div class="author" style="color: #666666; float: left; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">by <a href="http://www.npr.org/books/authors/143355903/amanda-foreman" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;"><span>Amanda Foreman</span></a></div><span class="bull" style="color: #666666; float: left; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 0px;">•</span><div class="bookedition" id="res143355923" style="color: #666666; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: static;"><span class="format">Hardcover, </span><span class="pagination">958 pages</span></div></div><div class="capsulereview"><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Amanda Foreman's <em>A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War</em> offers both the Civil War scholar and devoted history buff an eye-opening tale of the relationship between Britain and the United States in the mid-19th century. The story is told through the dozens of characters Foreman introduces, from spies to newspapermen to diplomats, plenty of politicians, the rich and the poor, Northerners and Southerners, old and young, male and female. Although the book is prodigiously researched, it wears its scholarship lightly. It's not a quick read (first of all, it's over 900 pages long), but I never felt bogged down in the detail, and I ended up with a long list of people I wanted to learn more about (such as Rose Greenhow, a spy for the Confederacy). The battles are vividly described, and the political maneuvering on all sides is recounted in every bit of its troubling detail. Besides President Lincoln, who of course plays a major role in the book, we meet British liberal politician William Gladstone; William Henry Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state; Charles Francis Adams, the U.S. ambassador to Britain; and too many others to list here. This is a book to put on the shelf with other essential Civil War histories.</div></blockquote></div></div></div><a href="" name="member143356302" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"></a><div class="bucket listitem booklistitem" id="res143356302" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 27px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 27px;"><div class="bucketwrap photo138" id="res143356475" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 138px;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/books/titles/143356444/blind-sight" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Blind Sight" class="img138" src="http://media.npr.org/assets/bakertaylor/covers/b/blind-sight/9780307379160_custom.jpg?t=1323364213&s=1" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 24px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 138px;" title="Blind Sight" width="138" /></a><div class="captionwrap"><div style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></div></div><div class="bucketblock" style="display: table;"><h3 style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/books/titles/143356444/blind-sight" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Blind Sight</a></h3><div class="bookMeta" style="margin-bottom: 15px; position: relative;"><div class="author" style="color: #666666; float: left; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">by <a href="http://www.npr.org/books/authors/143356458/meg-howrey" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;"><span>Meg Howrey</span></a></div><span class="bull" style="color: #666666; float: left; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 0px;">•</span><div class="bookedition" id="res143356468" style="color: #666666; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: static;"><span class="format">Hardcover, </span><span class="pagination">289 pages</span></div></div><div class="capsulereview"><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Imagine if you were 17 years old, the only male in a house full of women: your religiously inclined grandmother, Nana; your hippie-dippy mother Sara, who is frequently given to Buddhist statements such as "I'd like to hear more mindful statements from you," while admonishing one of her children for saying something snarky to a sibling; and Pearl and Aurora, your two brilliant older sisters who tease you mercilessly while loving you dearly. That's the situation Luke Prescott is in when we first meet him in Meg Howrey's splendid character-driven first novel, <em>Blind Sight</em>.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Luke has always known that his sisters' father is their mother's ex-husband (who went off to find himself in India years before). But his mother has never told him anything about his own father, refusing to answer any questions about who he was. Then, Luke gets a call from his father, who turns out to be a famous television star, inviting Luke to spend the summer in Los Angeles with him. It's only after that summer spent away from the women in his life, with a man he grows to love, that Luke can begin to understand whether or not belief can really equal truth; and, most important, what being a family means.</div></blockquote></div></div></div><a href="" name="member143357538" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"></a><div class="bucket listitem booklistitem" id="res143357538" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 27px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 27px;"><div class="bucketwrap photo138" id="res143357789" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 138px;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/books/titles/143357756/the-summer-of-the-bear" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="The Summer of the Bear" class="img138" src="http://media.npr.org/assets/bakertaylor/covers/t/the-summer-of-the-bear/9780802119742_custom.jpg?t=1323364664&s=1" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 24px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 138px;" title="The Summer of the Bear" width="138" /></a><div class="captionwrap"><div style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></div></div><div class="bucketblock" style="display: table;"><h3 style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/books/titles/143357756/the-summer-of-the-bear" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">The Summer Of The Bear</a></h3><div class="bookMeta" style="margin-bottom: 15px; position: relative;"><div class="author" style="color: #666666; float: left; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">by <a href="http://www.npr.org/books/authors/143357769/bella-pollen" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;"><span>Bella Pollen</span></a></div><span class="bull" style="color: #666666; float: left; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 0px;">•</span><div class="bookedition" id="res143357782" style="color: #666666; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: static;"><span class="format">Hardcover, </span><span class="pagination">448 pages</span></div></div><div class="capsulereview"><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I picked up Bella Pollen's <em>The Summer of the Bear</em> without any expectations. Although this is Pollen's fifth novel, I had never read anything by her before. In the time it took me to finish the first two or three sentences, I was already hooked: the characters, their feelings and their behavior seemed entirely real and true to me. When their diplomat father dies under mysterious circumstances at the British Embassy in Bonn, his three children and their mother each respond to the death differently. It's the Cold War; it's Germany. Was Nicky Fleming a Russian agent, as his British employers believe? Was he murdered? Did he kill himself?</div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Letty, Nicky's widow, is emotionally vaporized by grief. After she moves the family back to where she grew up on an island in the Outer Hebrides, she is so absorbed in her own sadness that she can't even acknowledge (or try to ease) the pain her children are all feeling. Teenage Georgie — who has her own secrets involving a mysterious trip to Berlin that she took with her father — tries to mother her younger sister and brother; Alba lashes out at everyone in her family with anger, but she's especially awful to her younger, learning disabled brother, Jamie. And Jamie believes that his father will return. The unexpected appearance of a grizzly bear, loose on the island, acts as a catalyst to force the family to regroup. And the Outer Hebrides are so vividly described that I am obsessed with going there for a visit.</div></blockquote></div></div></div><a href="" name="member143358277" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"></a><div class="bucket listitem booklistitem" id="res143358277" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 27px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 27px;"><div class="bucketwrap photo138" id="res143358309" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 138px;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/books/titles/138264080/by-george-a-novel" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="by George" class="img138" src="http://media.npr.org/assets/bakertaylor/covers/b/by-george/9780316018685_custom.jpg?t=1323364924&s=1" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 24px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 138px;" title="by George" width="138" /></a><div class="captionwrap"><div style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></div></div><div class="bucketblock" style="display: table;"><h3 style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/books/titles/138264080/by-george-a-novel" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">By George</a></h3><h4 style="color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: capitalize;">A Novel</h4><div class="bookMeta" style="margin-bottom: 15px; position: relative;"><div class="author" style="color: #666666; float: left; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">by <a href="http://www.npr.org/books/authors/137907186/wesley-stace" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;"><span>Wesley Stace</span></a></div><span class="bull" style="color: #666666; float: left; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 0px;">•</span><div class="bookedition" id="res143358288" style="color: #666666; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: static;"><span class="format">Paperback, </span><span class="pagination">383 pages</span></div></div><div class="capsulereview"><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In <em>By George</em>, author Wesley Stace weaves together the life stories of two different Georges — one human and the other a wooden ventriloquist's dummy. In 1973, 11-year-old George Fisher is sent off to boarding school because his actress mother is going on an extended tour. George is heartsick at being separated from his much-loved mother, but he can't bear the thought of leaving his beloved 93-year-old great-grandmother, Evangeline, who once performed as a successful ventriloquist and bequeathed that talent to her son, George's grandfather, Joe. School is just as bad as George fears, until he's befriended by the school's groundskeeper, who presents him with a how-to book on ventriloquism, a gift that will change George's life. Meanwhile, the wooden George relates his own experiences of working with George's grandfather, especially those years during World War II when Joe and George were sent overseas to entertain the British troops. Neither of the two Georges is aware of the existence of the other, until a series of events brings them together and forces long buried family secrets to come to light. This inventive novel rewards the reader with its intelligence, its wit, its poignancy and its splendid writing. By George, I loved it!</div></blockquote></div></div></div><a href="" name="member143358862" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"></a><div class="bucket listitem booklistitem" id="res143358862" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 27px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 27px;"><div class="bucketwrap photo138" id="res137874617" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 138px;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=137874600" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Vaclav & Lena" class="img138" src="http://media.npr.org/assets/bakertaylor/covers/v/vaclav-lena/9781400069316_custom.jpg?t=1312566062&s=1" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 24px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 138px;" title="Vaclav & Lena" width="138" /></a><div class="captionwrap"><div style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></div></div><div class="bucketblock" style="display: table;"><h3 style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/books/titles/137874600/vaclav-lena" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Vaclav & Lena</a></h3><div class="bookMeta" style="margin-bottom: 15px; position: relative;"><div class="author" style="color: #666666; float: left; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">by <a href="http://www.npr.org/books/authors/137874605/haley-tanner" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;"><span>Haley Tanner</span></a></div><span class="bull" style="color: #666666; float: left; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 0px;">•</span><div class="bookedition" id="res137874614" style="color: #666666; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: static;"><span class="format">Hardcover, </span><span class="pagination">292 pages</span></div></div><div class="capsulereview"><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The long-lasting bonds of a childhood friendship are sensitively explored in Haley Tanner's debut novel, <em>Vaclav & Lena</em>. They meet for the first time when they're 5, in an English as a Second Language class in their elementary school in Brighton Beach, a Brooklyn neighborhood filled with Russian emigres. The outgoing Vaclav's great desire is to be a famous magician, and Lena, shy and reserved, soon becomes his trusted assistant and best friend, who's welcomed wholeheartedly into his warm and loving family. Five years later, though, Lena stops coming to school, and all of Vaclav's well-practiced magic tricks fail to conjure her up again. Tanner does a lovely job describing the children's mutual dependence and strong affection for one another, as well as making it clear that in most ways, children's lives are decided by the whim of the adults in their lives. I don't think I'll ever forget Vaclav and Lena.</div></blockquote></div></div></div><a href="" name="member143359212" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"></a><div class="bucket listitem booklistitem" id="res143359212" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 27px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 27px;"><div class="bucketwrap photo138" id="res143359297" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 138px;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/books/titles/143359266/down-the-mysterly-river" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="Down the Mysterly River" class="img138" src="http://media.npr.org/assets/bakertaylor/covers/d/down-the-mysterly-river/9780765327925_custom.jpg?t=1323365485&s=1" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 24px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 138px;" title="Down the Mysterly River" width="138" /></a><div class="captionwrap"><div style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></div></div><div class="bucketblock" style="display: table;"><h3 style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/books/titles/143359266/down-the-mysterly-river" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Down The Mysterly River</a></h3><div class="bookMeta" style="margin-bottom: 15px; position: relative;"><div class="author" style="color: #666666; float: left; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">by <a href="http://www.npr.org/books/authors/143359271/bill-willingham" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;"><span>Bill Willingham</span></a></div><span class="bull" style="color: #666666; float: left; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 0px;">•</span><div class="bookedition" id="res143359288" style="color: #666666; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.45em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: static;"><span class="format">Hardcover, </span><span class="pagination">336 pages</span></div></div><div class="capsulereview"><blockquote style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">From its captivating title to its evocative last sentence, Bill Willingham's <em>Down the Mysterly River</em> is the best fantasy novel for fifth- to eighth-graders that I've read in a couple of years. This is the first children's book that Willingham has written; he's best known for his very popular comics for adults. Mark Buckingham, Willingham's longtime collaborator on the best-selling <em>Fables</em>series, drew the book's pictures. <em>Down the Mysterly River </em>is scary in places (at least, I was scared; maybe a tween wouldn't be), funny in parts, and exciting every step of the way. Twelve-year-old Max, known to friends as "The Wolf," is a champion Boy Scout and author of popular books that detail his many previous adventures. But one day he finds himself in an entirely unknown place — a forest — with no memory of how he got there. He meets several talking animals, including Banderbrock, a badger, a black bear named Walden, and the cranky and cantankerous McTavish, who styles himself "the monster," but just might be a cat. Together, the quartet takes on the dastardly Blue Cutters, in order to save both themselves and those who live in this strange new place. This is like no other fantasy novel you've ever read.</div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div>Intermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-43558724983326850212011-12-09T14:09:00.000-07:002011-12-09T14:09:25.982-07:00Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Christmas Gifts???<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tbody style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<tr style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 29px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I thought this article on www.outside.com was pretty interesting--Patagonia is encouraging people not to buy brand new items unless it is really necessary. Made me wonder--are any of you practicing re-using, re-cycling, and re-gifting this christmas instead of shopping for brand new items? </span></h3><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 27px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 29px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">DON'T BUY PATAGONIA STUFF NEW UNLESS YOU REALLY NEED IT</h3><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #77787b; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 11px/11px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="byline" href="http://www.outsideonline.com/blog?author=Gear+Shed" rel="author" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">By Gear Shed</a></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #77787b; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 11px/11px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://outside-blog.away.com/.a/6a00d83453140969e20153916abd93970b-pi" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="CTI_Ebay_OnPatagonia_FINAL_375_bb" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83453140969e20153916abd93970b" src="http://outside-blog.away.com/.a/6a00d83453140969e20153916abd93970b-580wi" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 560px;" title="CTI_Ebay_OnPatagonia_FINAL_375_bb" /></a><br />
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Tonight, <a href="http://www.patagonia.com/us/ebay/used-gear#" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Patagonia and eBay</a> announced a new partnership, <a href="http://campaigns.ebay.com/patagonia/join/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">the Common Threads Initiative</a>. Together, they asked owners of fleece and Gore-Tex everywhere to pledge to <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">reduce</strong> consumption, <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">reuse</strong> old gear, <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">recycle</strong>, <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">repair</strong>what's broken, and <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">reimagine</strong> a world where people don't stress the earth with purchases.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #77787b; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 11px/11px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes, you read correctly. Patagonia is asking us not to buy their stuff, or any stuff, unless we really need it. And then they're asking us to buy used stuff when we can. And they're asking us to sell those still warm puffys and barely frayed packs gathering dust in the back of our closets on eBay, to a troller who will buy an old jacket instead of buying a new one.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #77787b; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 11px/11px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To show they really mean it, Patagonia and eBay have partnered on a <a href="http://www.patagonia.com/us/ebay/used-gear" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Patagonia-specific resale site</a> powered by eBay that you can access from Patagonia's <a href="http://www.outsideonline.com/blog/www.patagonia.com" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">website</a>. But there is one catch--you have to pledge to the <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">five "Rs"</strong> to use it.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #77787b; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 11px/11px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Patagonia wants 50,000 pledgers this year. Sign today, and whether or not you start bidding, you'll be one of the first. But don't just sign so you can get first dibs on nearly new gear which for the next few days is probably mostly from the Patagonia sample racks. Think about what you're agreeing to, and like Patagonia, walk your talk. </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #77787b; font-size: 11px; font: normal normal normal 11px/11px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">-Berne Broudy<br />
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<tr><td style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><div class="articles" style="background-color: #d3ede0; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: double; border-bottom-width: medium; color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 600px;"><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">Great article from www.goop.com!</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">"Often times, when we occupy the space of 'I'm right and you're wrong' it keeps us from seeing our own responsibility in matters. When we judge others' foibles and personality traits, what does it really say about us? What can we do to identify and get rid of judgment in ourselves and in our lives?"</div></div><div class="articles" style="background-color: #d3ede0; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: double; border-bottom-width: medium; color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 600px;"><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;"><strong>From Deepak Chopra, MD:</strong></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">"The Hidden Side of Judgment</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">Not every person gets to the point in their life when they question the value of judging against others. After all, society depends upon a healthy regard for the difference between right and wrong. Many people, perhaps the vast majority, are content with a system where rules are meant to be obeyed, lawbreakers are punished, and so on. But the mechanism of justice is not the whole of life. When I was young, I was struck by a passing remark from the lips of a spiritual teacher: 'Where love is not, there must be laws.'</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">At a certain point, a new and different kind of view begins to oppose our certainty that we have a right to judge others. Insight begins to dawn. It's not the same insight for everyone, yet I'd guess that something like the following begins to make sense:</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">Judge not lest you be judged.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">We condemn in others what we are afraid to see in ourselves.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">Blame is the projection of guilt.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">Us-versus-them thinking is destructive to both sides of the equation.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">How would you label such thoughts? If you are a rigid adherent to "an eye for an eye," these insights are corrosive; they must be rejected to keep your black-and-white moral code intact. But there's a reason, despite the intricacies and cruelties of the system of law, why the spiritual side of our nature is attracted to non-judgment. We want to love and be loved. At a deeper level, we realize that all suffering is ultimately related to self-judgment. Seeing yourself as fallen from grace, you feel justified in treating everyone else as fallen, to one degree or another.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">Yet at a certain, highly unpredictable point, the urge arises to move beyond self-judgment, and when that urge arises, the need to judge others begins to decrease. There is an evolutionary impulse in everyone, or so the world's wisdom traditions teach us. We believe in our higher or better selves. We want to reconnect with the soul. The selfish demands of the ego wear us down and begin to seem pointless. Whatever the trigger, moving beyond judgment is evolutionary. A breakthrough is possible, after which a path opens up.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">Walking this path transforms the entire person, over a period of time, and leads to many stages of realization. At one stage you may want to rebel against rules and authority. That can be a satisfying stance, but eventually it is seen as untenable. At another stage you may feel humbled and therefore more judgmental against yourself than ever before. That, too, is just a stage. Ahead are various roles we attempt to play—martyr, saint, ascetic, child of God, child of Nature, etc. It would be too ironic to judge against any of these steps in personal growth; they are convincing while they last and rather empty once they are finished. Whatever the way stations that you experience on the path, the goal isn't the role you play; it's fulfillment within yourself.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">Fulfillment is all-inclusive, which is why it is often labeled as unity consciousness. You exclude nothing from your being; there is a common thread running through you and everyone else. At that point, when empathy is effortless, you have succeeded in something that is at once very desirable and very rare. You have transcended the war between good and evil, light and darkness. Only in that state does the war end, and the perplexing issues around judgment are solved at last. Short of complete fulfillment within yourself, you cannot help but participate in duality, because the entire play of right and wrong, good and bad, light and darkness, depends upon self-division. Your ego will persist until the very end in labeling A as good and B as bad, for the simple reason that duality requires choices. As long as you prefer one thing over another, a mechanism will sneak in that says, 'If I like it, it must be good. If I don't like it, it must be bad.'</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">Fortunately, even as the game of judgment keeps society running smoothly, constantly dictating our likes and dislikes, our loves and hates, human beings are born to transcend. We can go beyond the setup of society, the ego and judgment itself. In that innate capacity for seeking the higher self, every hope and promise offered by the world's great spiritual teachers rests."</div><div style="color: #999999; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;"><em><a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=fc85bb9d82&e=8f48316a26" style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Deepak Chopra</a> is the President of the Alliance for A New Humanity.</em></div></div></td></tr>
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<a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=be33e1324b&e=8f48316a26" style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Band of Horses - "No One's Gonna Love You"</a></td><td align="center" style="font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;" valign="top" width="33%"><a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=4744d6ad87&e=8f48316a26" style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><img src="http://multimedia.reindeercompany.com.s3.amazonaws.com/src/goop/images/154/154-1-2.jpg" /></a><br />
<a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=668dcd0645&e=8f48316a26" style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">The Horrors - "Still Life"</a></td><td align="center" style="font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;" valign="top" width="33%"><a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=f36afadce3&e=8f48316a26" style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><img src="http://multimedia.reindeercompany.com.s3.amazonaws.com/src/goop/images/154/154-1-3.jpg" /></a><br />
<a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=93a52bb9ab&e=8f48316a26" style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">James Vincent McMorrow – "We Don't Eat"</a></td></tr>
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Yet in reality, if our aim is to draw greater blessings and fulfillment into our lives, it is one of the most dangerous things we can do.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">When we judge others we often think that we are simply making an observation, and that this action or thought will not affect us. However this is not the case. When we judge others we are awakening and connecting ourselves to a force of judgment. It is like trying to throw mud at someone – we might or might not hit them but we are definitely tainted by the mud. And by acting in this way we don't necessarily affect the other person, but we most definitely draw the energy of judgment and lack into ourselves.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">I am often asked, 'We know that there are no coincidences, but why, then, do we see faults in others if it is wrong to judge people?' The kabbalists teach that as easy as it is to see shortcomings in others, it is almost impossible for an individual to truly find and assess his or her own faults. In order to change and grow we need to be able to know what it is about ourselves that we need to transform. Yet if we are never completely capable of seeing our own faults, how will we change?</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">In order to assist us, the Creator created endless mirrors for each of us that allow us to clearly see what we have to change. These mirrors are all the people that are in our lives every day. Every fault we see in another person is an indication that we have an aspect of that issue within ourselves. In fact, the reality is that the <em>only</em> reason we are being shown these flaws in others is to realize that they also exist within ourselves. How silly is it then that we often disregard this and focus on what is wrong with other people?</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">The kabbalists use a simple story to illustrate this lesson. A man spends all of his day in a coal mine and his entire body and face are filthy. As he arrives home he sees a mirror his wife has bought. He looks at the mirror and sees that his reflection is dirty, so he takes a rag and starts cleaning the mirror. He tries and tries with all his might but his face still remains dirty. Of course this man is acting foolishly, as it is not a problem with the mirror but rather his own filth. This is how we usually behave—we see a <em>reflection</em> of our less-than-perfect traits in others, and rather than realizing that we are seeing this in order to change and perfect ourselves, we stay focused on the faulty mirror.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">If we truly integrate this understanding into our lives, the next time we feel the urge to judge others we will instead look inward and find how we too possess the fault we see and forget about judging anyone. By acting in this way we protect ourselves from drawing the energy of judgment and lack into our lives. And most importantly, we gain a clear direction for own transformation and growth."</div><div style="color: #999999; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;"><em>Michael Berg is a Kabbalah scholar and author. He is co-Director of <a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=dde632dbe2&e=8f48316a26" style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">The Kabbalah Centre</a>. You can follow Michael on twitter, <a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=1d8d4d3f30&e=8f48316a26" style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">twitter.com/inspiringchange</a>. His latest book is <a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=2601027a78&e=8f48316a26" style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">What God Meant</a>.</em></div></div></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #a2a2a2; font-size: 14px;"><em>Rob Reynolds<br />
BONANZA 2, 2011<br />
oil, alkyd, acrylic gesso and india ink on canvas<br />
80" x 108" (203 x 274 cm)</em></span></td><td align="center" style="font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;" valign="top"><br />
For those of you heading to<a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=cb14d19b09&e=8f48316a26" style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Art Basel Miami</a> next week, don't miss my favorite emerging artist, Rob Reynolds', incredible work at the <a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=443d23c38a&e=8f48316a26" style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Anthony Meier Fine Arts</a>booth. Other greats like Richard Tuttle and John Baldessari will also be represented.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><div class="articles" style="background-color: #d3ede0; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: double; border-bottom-width: medium; color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 600px;"><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;"><strong>From Dr. Karen Binder Byrnes, Ph.D:</strong></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." -Carl Gustave Jung</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">"As human beings, we are constantly searching for self-definition by viewing ourselves in the context of our fellow “others" on this earth. One of the ways we do this is to be continually searching for the "sameness" or "difference" with the people we encounter in life. Often, the search to realize our own uniqueness leads being judgmental. As a basic and primal evolutionary survival tool, judgement of the "other's" intentions could enable one to move toward or away from a threatening encounter. However, on an everyday basis, most of us are more likely to be judgmental as a means of elevating our own self-importance and/or assuaging our feelings of inadequacy.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">There is an underlying sense of moral superiority and righteousness when we are being judgmental. In this dynamic, whether we are judging ourselves or others, we lose the sense of tolerance, compassion and objectivity that is probably most required. Recently, I was in a car with a male friend who became irate and judgmental about another driver who cut in on us in a toll line. I laughed, as I had been in the car with him many times when he had done the very same thing to other drivers. This is a simple example.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">Being judgmental can drain us. Having compassion and empathy restores and increases our energy and our sense of well-being. It helps us want to move toward others and allows others to move toward us. During this holiday season, when we are surrounded by family and friends, we should all try to be more tolerant and empathic to our differences and check some of our judgments both of others and of ourselves at the door. Be mindful of the tendency to be judgmental and find humor and acceptance the kaleidoscope of human foibles that make up our world! Happy Holidays!! Peace."</div><div style="color: #999999; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;"><em>Dr. Karen Binder-Brynes is a leading psychologist with a private practice in New York City for the past 19 years. See her website, <a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=a6a1b13ee0&e=8f48316a26" style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">DrKarennyc.com</a>, for more information.</em></div></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><div class="articles" style="background-color: #d3ede0; border-bottom-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom-style: double; border-bottom-width: medium; color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 600px;"><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;"><strong>From Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel:</strong></div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">"What I hear in this question is a common concern for all of us: we want to be able to respond to our relationships with skillfulness and clarity. But when we critically examine, say, a conflict we might be having with a friend or family member, we often find ourselves judging others based on 'right' or 'wrong.' So to me the fundamental question comes down to this: 'Is there a way of working with relationships without judging or ignoring?'</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">For me this question opened up a query into the difference between discernment and judgment. When we look at another human being—or ourselves—we see that we are not 'one way.' Human beings are creative and destructive, cranky and kind, joyful and miserable…it's impossible to pin down a human being. We are always a 'work in progress.' So when we judge others (or ourselves) we are objectifying or seeing them in a one-dimensional way. There is a closing down around a negative idea, and simultaneously, there is a non-acceptance of the "fullness" of who they are. This is why, when we judge others, we experience first and foremost the negativity of our own mind.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">One thing I like to do when I find myself in these situations is to try to remember at least two other qualities about the person whom I have just 'put in a box.' For instance, aside from what is irritating us, we may acknowledge that she is a good mother to her children. We may remember that she brought us soup when we were sick. In this way, all of us move out of our tendency to judge them—to form a solid picture of them—which in turn moves us out of our own negativity. This helps us see this person more fully, which, if we are honest with ourselves, is more accurate.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">This doesn't mean that this person doesn't exhibit habits that challenge us. Nor does it mean that we shouldn't also find a way to work with or even communicate with this person, set boundaries, and so on… But when we don't shut down by making judgments, the atmosphere of our minds is open, gentle and non-reactive. This gives us a greater capacity for clear seeing and how to relate to them skillfully in order to obtain a positive outcome.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">I deeply believe that seeing the fullness of others, in all their pain and glory, allows us to express the greatest love and respect we can offer. It is an unconditional kind of love. And this kind of love has a profound effect on our own minds.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">Not long ago a dear friend of mine lost her father. She told me that after his passing, her family and friends began to praise and deify him. Although she adored and respected her father, this was hard for her. She said that her father was many things: he was intelligent and kind, but also sometimes rough and gritty, 'like a prickly pear cactus.' She had trouble listening to people describe her father in such a one-dimensional way. She felt that her love for her father included the fullness of his human-ness.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">I found this touching because her love for her father was inclusive … she didn't have to forget or disregard him in any way. She could accept him completely for who he was. She was able to see him clearly and accept him fully, both at the same time.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px;">We can have an inclusive stance that makes room for the full humanity of others. From this ground, we can respond to a parent, friend or co-worker without judgment. When we realize that we can be both open and discerning at the same time, we experience freedom from negativity and meaningfulness in our relationship with the world."</div><div style="color: #999999; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;"><em><a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=a805bcf177&e=8f48316a26" style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel</a> is a Buddhist scholar and the author of the book, <a href="http://goop.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b7f2a5506a4a9de2d9bbf13de&id=d18b1384cb&e=8f48316a26" style="color: #444444; font-family: Garamond, Palatino, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">The Power of an Open Question</a> (Shambhala Publications).</em></div></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table>Intermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-50890126102974014182011-11-23T16:20:00.000-07:002011-11-23T16:20:01.871-07:00Intensive Mat Plus 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We just finished up the last Intensive Mat Plus course for this year and we had a lot of fun! All of these women are awesome instructors and we had so much fun in this course. I finally remembered to take some pictures and wanted to make sure I shared them with all of you. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks to all of you for making the course so fun and successful. I truly enjoyed getting to know all of you and helping you in your certification process. I hope to see you all soon. Enjoy the pictures!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">xoxoxox,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jenny</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Intensive Mat Plus Course in November/December 2011<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The whole crew...minus Leota....she was taking the picture</td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div>Intermountain Pilates Training Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05820220365075811175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179009591482996172.post-44650448547866531502011-11-22T08:48:00.000-07:002011-11-22T08:48:24.557-07:00<div class="layout-1Column flc articleHeader" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;"><div class="columnMain" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><header style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Great Article From Livestrong.com about finding and correctly using your oblique abdomen muscles! I love how they point out that you can flex your oblique muscles anytime--standing in line is a great one!</span></span></span><br />
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margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Obliques typically refer to a group of two muscle sections, the external obliques and the internal obliques. The external oblique is a thin, broad muscle that stretches across either side of the abdomen. The internal oblique is located directly below the external, its fibers running nearly perpendicular. In most humans, fat deposits cover the oblique muscles, rendering them invisible. With dramatic fat loss and muscle toning, you can make your obliques visible. Flexing the obliques will aid in toning them and increasing their definition.</div></section><section class="section" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="subHeader" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial Black', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">LOCATING OBLIQUES AND LEARNING TO FLEX THEM</h2><div class="description " style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Flexing the obliques is not always as easy as it sounds, even if you know where they are located. Engage your abdominal region and suck your belly button in toward your spine. You should feel a contraction in the muscles across the front of your stomach. Hold this contraction and slowly bend to the right side, pulling your ribcage toward your hipbone. The flexion you feel across the right side of your abdomen is your obliques. 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padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sit in a chair with your back straight or stand with your feet hip width apart, shoulders back. Gently repeat the flexion that pulls your ribcage toward your hips, allowing as little movement as possible. Repeat this, flexing the right side, then the left, for about 30 seconds. Stop the back-and-forth flexion and rest a moment. Flex the obliques on the right side of your torso as though you will continue the back-and-forth flexion. However, this time, do not allow your torso to move, flexing the obliques only as much as your immobile abdomen allows. Practice in front of a mirror to ensure your abdomen is not moving. You might notice the side of your stomach pulling in or straightening as you flex; this is caused by the tightening affect the muscles have on the waistline.</div></section><section class="section" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="subHeader" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial Black', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">WHEN TO FLEX OBLIQUES</h2><div class="description " style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Once the flexion comes natural to your muscle memory, you can do it anywhere. Any time you are sitting or standing, you can flex your obliquees, such as while waiting in line at the grocery store, talking on the phone, making breakfast or working at your desk. Flexing your obliques is a light isometric exercise that will help tone and strengthen the muscles. In addition, flexing them intentionally during an oblique exercise will make it more effective and will burn more calories.</div></section><section class="section" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="subHeader" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial Black', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">EXERCISES TO TARGET OBLIQUES</h2><div class="description " style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Exercising your obliques can build mass, increase strength and allow you to flex the muscle group easily. 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The term can also refer to other parts of the anatomy. For example, ligaments are said to be flexible. Flexing a ligament too far, however, can result in serious injury. Range of motion, in medical terms, generally refers to how well the joints in the human body move. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published the results of a study measuring normal range of motion for five major joints of movement in the human body. These measurements establish standard values.</div></section><section class="section" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="subHeader" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial Black', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">JOINT FLEXIBILITY</h2><div class="description description_1" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To have good range of motion, a joint must be flexible. For example, good range of motion of a ball-and-socket joint such as at the shoulders permits movement in all planes or all directions. A hinged joint, like that of the knee, allows movement in one direction only, or a limited plane. To have good range of motion and good flexibility, the hinged joint should provide full movement within the one normal plane.</div></section><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: left; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="section" id="DMINSTR" name="&ad_unit_network=GAP&ad_unit_type=CNT&revenue_basis=CPC&revenue_tag=art_sub_top_Joint_Health,article_top_health&adunit_id=ca-livestrong_html&ad_position=T" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; 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padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Saddle joints, such as at the base of the thumb between the trapezium and metacarpal bones, facilitate movement in two planes, but do not rotate around the bases of the bones. Range of motion in a saddle joint permits this back-and-forth movement. Thus, this joint with full range of movement will have good flexibility. When an area has more than one type of joint, the full range of motion is the sum of the movements of all joints. For example, the elbow has both a pivot joint and a hinged joint. Both must present good flexibility for the elbow to exhibit full range of motion.</div></section><section class="section" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="subHeader" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial Black', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">LIMITED RANGE OF MOTION</h2><div class="description description_3" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Things that can reduce flexibility, thus inhibiting range of motion, include infection in a joint that causes swelling, arthritis in the joint or an injury such as a sprain. Extended immobilization of a joint can also lead to limited flexibility as the ligaments contract and stiffen. According to MedlinePlus, the U.S. National Library's medical encyclopedia, stretching a joint can improve flexibility, which in turn reduces the risk of injury by permitting full range of motion in the joint.</div></section><section class="section" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="subHeader" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial Black', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 600; font: inherit; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">FLEXIBILITY EXAMPLES</h2><div class="description description_4" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 13px; font: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In many instances in the human body, cartilage permits flexibility. For example, in osteoarthritis, a gradual decrease in joint flexibility usually results as cartilage deteriorates. The flexibility provided by rib cartilage allows the lungs to expand and deflate in breathing. Furthermore, flexibility is often a measurement of physical fitness when taken in conjunction with muscle coordination, strength and endurance. An example of an athlete with high flexibility would be a professional gymnast. 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