The Way to Get to the Top is to Get Off Your Bottom:)

I just read an article about how TV watching is at an all-time high. Americans now watch more than 151 hours of TV a month. I think that statistic has a lot to do with unemployment being up and the weather being horrific this time of year….I say, “great, stay home where it’s safe and warm, but maybe try to get off the couch a bit.” Click here to read my latest Lifetime.com column that gives you at-home fitness inspiration.sheltonave_1pager_final

ADDITION TO ORIGINAL POST: (Of course, you can always get fit and sustain a high level of fitness with at-home exercise DVDs!)

Calling All New Haven Buff Girls

Super Slim Sculpt

with Ellen Barrett
Wednesdays at 9:15am

at “Inner Light Studio”
938 State Street
New Haven, CT 06511 

March 11^th  – May 13^th

 

The originator of Fat Burning Fusion and Slim Sculpt is back, combining her two signature workouts for this one hour of fantastic fusion fitness. 30minutes of fluid Fat Burning Fusion, followed by 15minutes of the cardio component of Slim Sculpt, then finishing with standing strengthening and lengthening exercises – true exercise elegance!

The class is performed barefoot with the use of a yoga mat & light handheld weights. (THE STUDIO 1lb ankle/wrist weights are optional – bring them if you have them.)

10 Class Series, Cost $150

Space is limited « Must register in advance

Call 203 562-2833 or email innerlightstudio@sbcglobal.net to register

I’m Sooo Doing This Next Year!

New Yorkers are crazy – on Feb.3rd they raced up the Empire State Building. Just for the heck of it…a sanctioned event. Crazy, but cool, right? This morning’s New York Times newspaper has a cute article about stair climbing as exercise, with a cute picture taken at the finish line – the top of the Empire State Building.

Force of Nature

My hat is off to Laird Hamilton – I got a lot out of his book FORCE OF NATURE, where he shares his wellness philosophy and secrets. It’s original. It’s honest. It’s gutsy. 

One of the biggest perks to writing for the media is getting free fitness/wellness books from PR people, and I read ‘em all. Most of them are filled with recycled shallow stuff that make me wonder where our creativity has gone….This one (which someone gave to Steve for xmas, but lucky me!) discusses barefoot energy, how finding inspiration is a prerequisite to finding wellness, and diet suggestions like hemp milk and espresso. It also showcases a workout that is not gym/equipment based, but instead a kind-of-surfer workout, using the ocean and a paddle. The typical reader of this book is probably male – and a subscriber to Men’s Health magazine – but women can get a lot out of it as well as the info is universal – wellness is body+mind+spirit and tending to all three is necessary. Check it out if you get the chance….or if you are looking for a Valentine’s gift for your boyfriend, buy it for him, “wink, wink”

The Desire to Move is Innate (I think)

 

6 week old Luca doing a full hip lift on the changing table...

I’ve always had a hard time being idle. I think I was a labeled a  ”difficult” child because I was either roller skating on my mother’s new hardwood floors or I was pogo-sticking down a street full of traffic! One time, because it was winter, I  jumped rope in the garage and broke the ceiling’s garage door opener. As an adult, I see that my need to move was/is NOT a flaw (but it took me 30years). Seeing my baby Luca joyfully flail his arms and legs  - even doing what looks like advanced Pilates moves – I realize that the desire to move is innate and it sometimes gets “snuffed” out of a lot of us, due to society/work demands/mental fatigue/ being un-inspired. 

So my postpartum lower back has healed and I’m getting adequate sleep again (Luca is a “5 hours straight” sleeper at night!) – ah, to be pain-free and energized – I’ll never take it for granted again. Planning on feeding my desire to move, with no guilt. EB