Chris Abraham

I think I finally have a feasible fitness plan for 2019: 349 pounds snuck up on me. The last time I had checked, I was 312, which was still 100 pounds too heavy. Now I am 150 pounds overweight. I could blame the season or blame the stress and sitting required to launch an online magazine, but I know the blame is on me.
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Becoming a Spin Goddess in 2019: Okay, a couple of months ago I joined CYCLEBAR Columbia Pike with guns blazing and worked so hard too quickly and got a killer cold that grounded me for weeks.
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SweatNow makes trainers celebrities and students communities: SweatNow, a free app for iOS and Android, allows all of us who only go to classes, studios, and gyms for specific trainers, coaches, teachers, yoginis, and instructors, to follow them wherever they go whenever they go there.
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My best gym and workout towels are from NIcool Sports: I am always on the lookout for the world's best towels. It's probably because of my devotion to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy—Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is—but it's my White Whale. My White Towel. The NIcool Sports Cycling Towel on Amazon is currently my very favorite gym and workout towel.
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Today I will be an indoor cat as temperatures in DC will top 100F: Someone on Facebook made fun of me because I am obsessed with urban hiking, something I never thought to call it. But it's true. And I pride myself on my ability to weather the heat and humidity of the mid-Atlantic; however, today I will do all my work and my workouts safely cocooned in my air-conditioned little studio.
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Recovery from intense physical activity is a real thing: While I do concede that recovery days do rob me of valuable caloric expenditure, fitness is a series of ascending plateaus.
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Spin Instructors are Cycling Coxswains: I know we call them spin instructors, indoor cycling instructors, or even CYCLESTARS, like we do at CYCLEBAR, to me, they'll be forever known as my Cycling Coxswains.
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The results of three days of inactive recovery and some motivational words from my best friend: I canceled my Friday ride last week and took the weekend off. No spinning or CYCLEBAR for me until last night. And, despite what everyone said, I didn't do any amount of active recovery (though I do consider that to be a mistake I don't regret but will try to learn from).
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On contradicting my Marine dad's sage health advice: My dad's advice was "if you don't need to run, walk; if you don't need to walk, stand; if you don't need to stand, sit; if you don't need to sit, lie down." I am embracing the diametrically opposite.
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