Nobody gives you a rulebook when you turn 60. You write your own, one lesson (and one sore muscle) at a time. I’ve been teaching group fitness since 1989. That’s a lot of years of standing in front of a room full of women, watching them get stronger, laugh through the hard parts, and show […]
One of the more flagrant “mic drops” I toss down whenever I speak to a group of fitness professionals is that forcing people to adopt a symmetrical stance while performing basic lifts such as deadlifts or squats is more likely hurting people rather than helping them. In fact, I’ll go a step further and tell […]
If you’ve ever stood in a dressing room with nine pairs of jeans in a pile and none of them fit, I see you. Jeans shopping in midlife can feel like a special kind of torture. The waist gaps, the rise hits in the wrong spot, and the “stretch” denim sags by lunch. Here’s what […]
If you walked into my kitchen right now, you’d smell cinnamon, and you’d probably find a pot of something simmering on the stove. Fall does that to me. As a trainer in my 60s who still teaches group fitness every week, I need food that fuels me, not food that feels like a punishment, and […]
I bought a gorgeous pair of boots two falls ago. Pointed toe, great heel, the kind of shoe that photographs beautifully and makes you feel about six inches taller walking into a restaurant. I wore them to dinner in downtown Minneapolis and took them off in the car on the way home. That was the […]