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8 Tips For Outdoor Winter Running

Learn how you can continue running as it gets colder outside with these outdoor Winter running tips. Some people think of running as a fair-weather sport and hang up their running shoes in the winter. I love running in the fall and winter. Living in Chicago, it can be no small feat, but if you have the right gear and some cold weather paramet...

My New Matrix TF30 Treadmill by Johnson Fitness

I enjoy running outdoors but sometimes weather doesn’t always permit such as when its raining or there’s ice on the ground.  And let’s face it, even though I have a gym membership I sometimes get a little lazy and don’t feel like driving out to the gym that’s when an at-home treadmill comes in right on time. [Tweet "Learn all ...

Twelve Days of Fitness – Days 12

  I'm recording Day 12 of the Twelve Days of Fitness challenge by Fit Armadillo.  This challenge encourages fitness bloggers to blog every day for the next 12 days about our workouts. Today is the 12th and final day of 12 Days of Fitness.  Boy has the time flown by.  Today I can describe my workout in a single word – ...

Twelve Days of Fitness – Day 11

  I'm recording Day 11 of the Twelve Days of Fitness challenge by Fit Armadillo.  This challenge encourages fitness bloggers to blog every day for the next 12 days about our workouts. Let's see where do I start?  Today I signed up for an hour of Sanders Optimum Fitness boot camp which I have been doing for well over a year.  ...

Twelve Days of Fitness – Day 10

  I'm recording Day 10 of the Twelve Days of Fitness challenge by Fit Armadillo.  This challenge encourages fitness bloggers to blog every day for the next 12 days about our workouts. Wow ....all I'mma say is if you are on a workout regiment - DON'T take a break.  Figure out how to get something in because getting back into it ...

Twelve Days of Fitness – Day 7

It is Day 6 of the Twelve Days of Fitness challenge by Fit Armadillo.  This challenge encourages fitness bloggers to blog every day for the next 12 days about our workouts.  I am hanging in there. Today is Day 31 of the December challenge and it consists of 270 squats and 80 scissor kicks.  I have plans to do them before I go to my ...

Twelve Days of Fitness – Day 6

It is Day 6 of the Twelve Days of Fitness challenge by Fit Armadillo.  This challenge encourages fitness bloggers to blog every day for the next 12 days about our workouts.  I am hanging in there. Today is Day 30 of the December challenge and it consists of 255 squats and 30 side plank reach throughs.  That may not sound like much but ...

Twelve Days of Fitness – Day 5

It is Day 5 of the Twelve Days of Fitness challenge by Fit Armadillo.  This challenge encourages fitness bloggers to blog every day for the next 12 days about our workouts.  This is definitely a fun challenge for me. Now on to my workout - Day 29 of the 31 Days To New Year's Eve Ab/Squat December Challenge.  I know that is a long ...

Twelve Days of Fitness – Day 4

It is Day4 of the Twelve Days of Fitness challenge by Fit Armadillo.  This challenge encourage us fitness bloggers to blog every day for the next 12 days about our workouts.  This is definitely a fun challenge for me. Now on to my workout - Day 28 of the 31 Days To New Year's Eve Ab/Squat December Challenge.  I know that is a long ...

Twelve Days of Fitness – Day 3

It is Day 3 of the Twelve Days of Christmas challenge by Fit Armadillo and I put in some real workout time today.  I finally made it back out on the pavement with Black Girls RUN! Baltimore.  It was cold but if you don't think about it then you can get through it.  We started out with a 3 mile effort and ended up clocking an entire 4 ...

Femme Fitale Fit Club presents Fierce Women Series – Tsitsi Wezhira

FFFC:  Please introduce yourself to our readers. TW:  My name is Tsitsi Wezhira, I am originally from Africa and currently reside in New York City. FFFC:  How and why did you get started running? TW:  Running has been part of my life since I was twenty years old; I have also been active from grade school through high school. ...

Femme Fitale Fit Club presents Fierce Women Series – Randi Wood

  FFFC:  Please introduce yourself to our readers. RW:  Hi Femme Fitales! I am known to most as Randi. Bmore born and raised. On the playground playing hide and go and seek, skating up and down the street with one skate ( because we would share), riding bikes, and jumping rope is how I spent most of my daysJ In a nutshell, I am a ...

Femme Fitale Fit Club presents Fierce Women Series – Shakirah Hameed

FFFC:  Please introduce yourself to our readers.  SH:  Hello all! My name is Shakirah Hameed, and I’m a runner. I know that must sound like I should be in an anonymous group with some undisclosed addiction, but actually that would be a pretty accurate description. From 9-5, I’m a graphic designer for one of the largest CPG (Consumer ...

New God Flow and Week In Review – 10/14 – 10/19

My workouts have only included running in the past few weeks since I discontinued going to my personal trainer for a few weeks.  I just could not swing the cost ($80 a week for 2, 30-minute sessions).  I would like to be able to keep that up but honestly - as long as I have been a loyal client, I was not seeing a price break any time soon.  BUT ...

Featured Fitale Kimberly Shorter

FFFC:  Please introduce yourself to our readers (i.e. your name, occupation, hobbies, etc.). KS:  Hello! My name is Kimberly Shorter. I am a program analyst for the federal government, and a freelance writer. In my spare time I enjoy cooking, baking and traveling. FFFC:  What sparked your weight-loss transformation journey? KS:  I have ...

It’s National Running Day

Hey everybody!  Today is a cool day - it's National Running Day.  Get out there with some family and friends and have yourself a run in celebration of this special day.  I made a cool badge from their Facebook Page. How do you like mine? Have fun today!!!! I met up with my running Fitales and we made it happen at 5 am and 5:30 am!  We did 5 ...

#Thanksgiving Damage

If you have time to sit back and reflect what type of damage did you do this Thanksgiving?  Did you throw caution into the wind?  Did you just say "2 peas in a bucket.....you know the rest"?  Welp I will admit that these are MY confessions.  I own up to what I do and it doesn't make me a bad person.  Makes me human.   I know what needs ...