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Emily Wishes She Were a Lady GaGa Backup Dancer

Every day, we give you a snapshot of one fellow striver in fitness. We ask personal questions, they boldly answer. Today's snapshot: Emily, aka moveyourbootyblog.

• What's your secret (fitness-related) sin? Sometimes (as my running partner can attest) I wear the same workout clothes a couple times in a row —what, they're just going to get sweaty again! Am I right?! 
•  What's your number one workout spot? The Brooklyn Bridge and I had a pretty good thing going for a while. But then I moved (it was an amicable split). These days, when I'm not sweating it out in Core Fusion over at the Soho Exhale location or getting my namaste on at Laughing Lotus, I've been really into morning runs on the Williamsburg bridge (but please don't tell the Brooklyn Bridge, I don't want to make it awkward). 

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Jumping Again!

3 weeks and 2 wedding weekends later, my knee has finally healed.  (Now all I have to complain about is my left glute/hip/hamstring issue.  Woo hoo!)  Returned to the jumping/handstanding warmup exercise with Emily this morning, did lots more abs and a ton of hamstring stretching.

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Deltoids, Abs and Hula Hooping with Emily

As my knee isn't fully healed, Emily decided it would be best for me to skip our usual warmup sequence for the second week in a row. Instead, I would hula hoop for 5 minutes in each direction. First, I decided to use my "bad side", thinking that putting my left foot in front and starting the hoop to the left was my bad side, since anything left is always harder/weaker/worse for me.