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The first Go Fit Girl! Monthly Challenge seemed successful. Trying to increase or get your water intake to at least 48-64 ounces a day and either trying yoga for the first time or if a regular yogi, trying a new teacher or new kind of class/practice. Today launches Go Fit Girl’s October Monthly Challenge. And [...]

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Ann on July 27th, 2012

On a day when I can sleep in, which is usually 6:30 a.m. Yes, 6:30 in the morning is sleeping in for me. How sad … Anyway, Fridays I normally work from home. So I usually just roll out of bed and turn on the computer and work. Today I got up about 5:45 and [...]

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Ann on July 23rd, 2012

My good friend Monica is getting married next month. Her bachelorette party was on Saturday. Because my mom was in town I couldn’t participate in most of the activities. But the one I did participate in was the pole dancing class. Talk about some sweaty exercise. There were probably about 15 of us participating. There [...]

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Ann on June 29th, 2012

Today during my Vinyasa yoga class I thought about what Vickie, one of my yoga teachers, says to the class when she puts us into a challenging pose … I’m not interested in you hurting yourself or I am not interested in you hurting your insert body part here. I have kyphosis. One time in [...]

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Ann on January 23rd, 2012

I attended the 6 p.m. yoga class, which Baxter normally teaches. I forgot he is in Costa Rica this week for a yoga retreat. Dominick was the sub. I like Dominick’s teaching style and he is funny. But his class starts at 4:30 on Mondays and Wednesdays. So I can rarely go. But I do [...]

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Ann on July 24th, 2009

Yesterday while 2-hole punching some paperwork to file into the patent files I noticed that every time I hit the lever on the hole puncher I would engage my abs. I never noticed that until yesterday. I mean, I could be volunteering to hole punch everyone’s paperwork at the company and have washboard abs. Do [...]

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Ann on June 21st, 2009

So Saturdays are my normal day to work out for two hours: spin; abs/core; body conditioning. When I woke up yesterday morning I was so tired and dehydrated (did some drinking the night before) that I just couldn’t go to the gym. I was only planning on hitting spin because of a wedding Curt and [...]

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Ann on May 6th, 2009

I have been doing yoga on a regular basis for almost two years. I normally practice yoga about three times a week. I have seriously come a long way. But the thing with yoga is you are always improving and getting better and stronger. I don’t know if you ever master it? Some might disagree. [...]

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Ann on September 21st, 2008

My goal every week is to workout six times a week. Usually it is more like four to five times. But this past week I worked out six times: Monday: yoga Tuesday: yoga Wednesday: yoga Thursday: kickboxing Friday: yoga Saturday: spin; abs/core My normal sked is 3 yoga classes a week and 3 cardio: kickboxing, [...]

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Ann on September 20th, 2008

That is what my spin teacher, Jennifer, said one time. I have to say spin is the hardest class I have ever taken. But I make myself go. It is an amazing cardio workout. After spin Jennifer teaches an abs/core half an hour class. That is a great class, too. So that is what I [...]

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