I'm still fascinated by pole dancing. It's so beautiful, and so impressive. When I'm listening to music, if a danceable or sexy song comes on, or sometimes even something like Kissing You or At Last, I usually make up a pole routine in my head for it. I mean moves, costumes, sometimes partner routines... So today while talking to a friend about it ( Read more... )

Herein I shall babble about body fat percentage, nutritional goals, etc. I'm making it public to that people can give/get advice, use me as their guinea pig, whatever. I am NOT looking for people to comment with anything along the lines of "Oh silly Rachel, I think you look fine", or to try and stage some kind of intervention because you think that ( Read more... )

For a long while now, GNC's been selling the Perfect Pushup, and I've wanted them from day one. Now we're selling the Perfect Pullup too, which I also want. I spend long hours staring at the hot guy on the box and his perky nipples, longing to have shoulders like his.
So I was looking up the Perfect Pullup online hoping for more pics of pullup guy ( Read more... )

Gyms, unless you're there with a friend, get really boring pretty quickly in my opinion ( Read more... )

I'm having energy issues. For one, I have almost none, which is annoying because I'm eating pretty well and exercising and I'm not sure what to do on top of that. For two, my energy is at really inconvenient times ( Read more... )

So while I was at the climbing festival I tried slacklining. It's basically tightrope walking, and it's surprisingly hard. The webbing goes all crazy when you stand on it, so it's kinda like trying to walk on a 1" rope while some asshole is shaking it really hard. It took me a Lot of tries to stand up on it (we had it tied between 2 trees at about ( Read more... )

Mostly I'm posting this to save the links, but I thought I'd make it public and share ( Read more... )

Today my biceps finally returned, after a long sad absence. Hi bicep! I missed you! &hearts ( Read more... )

( New shiny things )

One of my students, Alena, is a rock climber. She's traveled all over Czech, and even to a few other countries, to climb in the wilderness. She even competes! She says that guys have a strength and height advantage, but girls are better at figuring out routes. :D She's so much cooler than me. I talked to her more this week, and she told me that it' ( Read more... )