Recess with Janet

We all do squats.   Sit down.   Stand up.   Voila!   A squat!   Now we just need to work on form a little. Stand with your feet abo...

I’m from Berkeley.   That’s both a credential and a disclaimer.   I don’t have a tinfoil hat.   T. and I laughed like maniacs about the...

Boredom can be a good motivator.   No, I don’t mean that it is a good idea to wait around to exercise until you are so bored that it’s ...

Let’s talk about pain.   Cheerful subject, right?   I am sure I will sound both vaguely Puritan and vaguely Buddhist when I say that pa...

I have read a bewildering amount of material about goal-setting in my life.   I’ve read about the six most efficient strategies and the...

I love pushups.   Interestingly, when you do an image search for pushups, you get a lot of bras, but that’s not what I’m talking about....

(Today's post is taken from a paper I wrote for Pilates training.) The Pilates experience, by design, goes beyond exercises to cre...