Recess with Janet

Most of the time, I am in favor of baby steps, the small, incremental gains that come from regular practice and achieving little victor...

Duck needed a cold beverage on the way to So. Cal. And then, of course, Duck needed a pit stop. He had to stop at the bank f...

Remember the sit and reach test?   It was one of the yearly tortures of the President’s Physical Fitness Test (discontinued after the 2...

Sometimes it seems like it is all going wrong.   We catch a cold.   We miss a workout or two.   We want macaroni and cheese more than a...

When I was a kid, I thought crutches were incredibly cool.   I was not the only one.   Anyone who had a pair and happened to be sitting...

Now that it is daylight savings time, we can call it spring.   Spring means daffodils (yay!), afternoon bike rides (yay!), and spring c...

Exercise anxiety comes in lots of forms. Take, for example, anxiety that comes from bringing our not-entirely-culturally-ideal bodi...