Recess with Janet

Stickie enjoys working with kettle bells.   There may be another name for this exercise, but she likes to call it Over Yets (as in “Are...

Bad things happen.   How we choose to cope with those bad things is the subject of Steven Southwick’s and Dennis Charney’s book Resilie...

Core strength underlies everything we do.   Without it, our cardio work and our other strength work comes to very little.   We need it ...

Some people gravitate more naturally toward weight training than others.   Those who instinctively enjoy moving heavy objects need no c...

I’ve written about injury before, but the time has come to do it again because—hey!—I am injured.   We all try not to get injured.   Th...

Stickie enjoys having a trim waistline.   She knows that working her oblique abdominals contributes to that trimness, so she often choo...

Play:   How It Shapes The Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown is a book after my own heart.   After...