Social Workout

Events

Fertility and Libido The Mellow Eastern Medicine Way

Whether you're in love with birth control and just looking for more sexercise or hoping to sign up for stroller bootcamp soon, here's an event worth noting:

• Who: Our friends over at Well + Good NYC and Jill Blakeway, board certified acupuncturist, clinical herbalist, former Professor of Asian Medicine, and fertility and libido expert
• What: A salon-style discussion event, focused on libido and fertility
• When: Monday, October 4, 2010, 6:30 to 8:00 P.M.
• Where: The YinOva Center, 80 E. 11th St., NYC
• Why: Maybe the word "fertility" totally spooks you (like it does me) but then there's the libido part. Just a reminder — sex is good exercise. 

New York

Scientific

Baby Swimmers are Better at Everything

Attention godparents: Forget Savings Bonds — you should sign the kid up for swim lessons. Science says so, in particular, a new study conducted in Iceland, which showed that babies who learn to swim before they're seven months old wind up better at pretty much everything, or at least everything involving balance and coordination. When the researchers compared five-year-olds who'd learned to swim as babies with five-year-olds-who hadn't, the swimmers walloped the other kids in everything from walking on tiptoes and skipping rope to rolling a ball into a goal and catching a beanbag. So sign them up already — heaven forbid they reach age five lacking beanbag catching skills! 

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Ups and Downs

There's been a lot of ups and downs this week.  Break ups and pets dying, but also friends getting married and the arrival of a new niece (or nephew?) for a close friend.  With all that goes on, it's easy to get distracted, but I continued on my Exhale Yoga journey last night, and tried to breathe in the positive and breathe out the negative.  I learned a new modification for goi

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toddler dance party

my problem is that i work full time and have two little babies that i only get to see at night. it's hard to work out during the work day and the last thing i want to do at night is work out. i feel terribly guilty about not spending that time with my kids. so, i have invented a new workout: the toddler dance party. i dance around with a 27 pound kid in my arms for twenty minutes.

Wake Up Call

Strollercise

"Approaching the sidewalk that circumnavigates the Great Lawn in Central Park, I happened upon a rather unusual sight: a line of several women, all pushing strollers, apparently listening to a leader in the front of the line (to the left of this photo) telling them every couple of seconds to skip, hop, and kick backwards with their left leg."

~Ed Yourdon

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waterbabies go everywhere

swimming with my baby again. only 20 minutes this time, but fun and got the blood warmed up.