I'm from New York but most of my family is in the South. I have to admit it was a little freaky being called ma'am by guys my age or older when I was late-teens, early 20s, but realized that it was just a Southern thing. The first time I got called that by a New Yorker, I was well into my 30s, and then it just made…

Good lord, now it is going to take forever to find out if he loves me or loves me not.

Oh! So THAT'S why doctors, lawyers and megachurch preachers work for free? I get it now.

NOTHING beats the first 100lb bench press. I can remember it like it was yesterday—such a thrill! Congratulations!

Once those exercises get to be too easy (like you can do 20+ reps without a problem), you might want to add a little weight to increase the adaptive effect.

I LOVE Mistress Krista—she was my inspiration to start lifting 11 years ago!!

Wow! Go girls!!

Work your legs. Chances are good that as a woman, your lower body is proportionately much stronger than the guys'. My friends and I used to call the leg area of the gym the men's maternity ward, particularly the leg press because you'd hear guys huffing and puffing and their buddies yelling "push", then a scream…

The way I read this, you're suggesting that big men make great pets. I'd have to agree.

Ugh (goes home to toss out dildo...)

You can find good, qualified, intelligent trainers pretty much anywhere, but you have to be very clear what your goals are and what kind of motivation you like. Unfortunately, some trainers will make assumptions about your goals if you are vague and say, "I just want to lose weight". When I hired my first trainer,…

I held on to some older clothes because my mom had done so and when I was in college I got to raid her closet and have the best vintage stuff. A couple of summers ago, I got to pass on my "totally awesome" '80s greatest hits to my niece. I have no idea whether I could have fit into them or not, I had only saved them…

Oh my, your quoting science based medicine and the good doctor Steve Novella is giving me the vapors. I actually happened to come across that episode totally serendipitously but I listen to the Skeptics Guide to the Universe every week. Novella would NOT be dragged down by Oz's increasing efforts to put words in his…

It was a part-time second job and I loved doing it and I loved my clients, but gym politics and the fact that pretty much everywhere I worked they expected us to push supplements (which, unless you have some pretty unusual deficiencies, I don't really believe in) made me give it up. One of the best sites for…

Also, I'm pretty sure it violates some sort of health code. If you wear scrubs that you've worn in the hospital/medical environment out in public, aren't you risking exposing the public to whatever the hell is cultivated in the hospital. If you wear scrubs from home TO the hospital, aren't you putting vulnerable…

The whole point is to set up a feeling of "lack" in the audience so that they'll be receptive to whatever remedy appears during the commercials. If you're content, there's no reason to buy unnecessary crap.

A few years ago I was a personal trainer. When I was doing evaluations for new clients and asked them why they wanted to work out., if they said they hated their body, I would put down my notebook and say, "well then, this isn't going to work. You have to love your body to do what is right and healthy for it." I'd…

Back in my ESL-teaching days (20 years ago) I had a very sweet, straight-laced student from Brazil who was in the US with her husband while he took some banking courses. She was shocked when they went to the Hamptons for the weekend and, after she took off her beach cover-up, her husband immediately threw a towel…

Marry me.

My gym is more or less across the street from my apartment and after working up a good 7 mile sweat in the morning, I usually just jump in a cool shower—soap on pits and "parts" but otherwise, just rinse off the sweat. I mean, it really is like showering from the inside out and since I'm rinsing off only about five…