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Fitness Friday: what is your quest?

Games are fun. Or at least they are supposed to be. The best games start out easy and then increase in difficulty as one builds one’s skills. That is the premise behind SuperBetter. When I rediscovered the website last fall and then picked up the book, I realized how I could incorporate my #Powerof41 challenges/tasks into the SuperBetter format. In SuperBetter, the tasks are called quests. In…

Welcome to the first Fitness Friday of 2017. This year, my posts will be centered around the book SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient — Powered by the Science of Games by Jane McGonigal.  I was inspired to read it a few months ago after reading this post about the book by Mel over at Stirrup Queens. While reading, I thought to myself, This…

Fitness Friday: chair massage

I don’t like people touching me. That’s one of my go-to declarative statements like “I don’t like crowds” or “I don’t like beets.” It’s why I avoid going to the doctor. It’s why I don’t get pedicures. It’s one of three reasons why I skip manicures, too, the others being that I’m too cheap to pay for one and I bite my fingernails. I remember when I was growing up and someone would touch me on the…

an amazing age to have been

Since it is Throwback Thursday, let’s go back all the way to last month when I turned 41 and freaked out. I’d like to think I had recovered enough by the time I published my post on “The Power of 41.” Instead of curling into a ball in the corner, I came up with a list of challenges/tasks to occupy my mind and body for the next year. A blogger who I have followed for almost as long as I’ve had…

Fitness Friday: water aerobics

Thursday was Philip’s first day of second grade. When he woke up yesterday at 1:30 am, I was concerned it would be a rough one. Fortunately (for both of us), he fell back asleep at 4:30 and we both caught a few more zzz’s before heading to work and school. Still, I expected him to be asleep when I got home last night. I had decided that, napping or not, I would take him to the pool. Thursday was…

Fitness Friday: the power of 41

Forty-one. It tags along after the well-rounded milestone of forty. It falls one short of the answer to life, the universe, and everything. Forty-one means I’m no longer forty, I am “in my forties.” I tried to ignore my fortieth birthday. I hid my birthday on Facebook, hoping friends would forget and not feel obligated to wish me well. Not only did I want them to forget my birthday, I hoped they…