Starling Fitness: Daily writings on Fitness, Diet, and Health

Just a note to wish you all a Healthy Christmas this year and leave you with one of my favorite Christmas visuals:

When you are tempted to overindulge this holiday, remember this photo and imagine yourself looking just as sexy as these girls…

Unless you’re a guy…

Then just imagine yourself WITH one of these sexy girls!

Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!

• ran 0.36 mi on 12/16/2009 at 4:57 PM with a pace of 24'35"/mi http://bit.ly/92KWa8 #

• ran 0.33 mi on 12/9/2009 at 5:02 PM with a pace of 28'11"/mi http://bit.ly/4I2HhT #

• ran 0.51 mi on 12/7/2009 at 12:43 PM with a pace of 28'44"/mi http://bit.ly/8TOPO4 #
• ran 1.5 mi on 12/4/2009 at 10:38 AM with a pace of 20'06"/mi http://bit.ly/8ndB7V #
• ran 0.23 mi on 12/2/2009 at 7:06 PM with a pace of 1:42'43"/mi http://bit.ly/7bkZCM #
• ran 0.86 mi on 11/29/2009 at 7:35 PM with a pace of 28'04"/mi http://bit.ly/8Qp4tw/?sitesrc=twit_ab_plus #

• Using Runkeeper on your iPhone? Here's how to talk on your phone AND track your workout at the same time. http://runkeeper.com/blog/?p=233 #

• ran 0.22 mi on 11/20/2009 at 7:29 PM with a pace of 1:30'01"/mi http://bit.ly/5IHp2B/?sitesrc=twit_ab_plus #

Long ago, I wrote an entry about Charles Atlas and how his advertisements made me wary of muscular men because they are all bullies:

• Starling Fitness » Charles Atlas

It looks like Charles Atlas was just one in a long line of advertisements. Take this ad from Lionel Strongfort, for example:

With a name like Lionel Strongfort, how could he NOT be a virile man?! When I see ads like this, it makes me sad because I imagine guys looking at them and feeling bad for not being muscle bound. I prefer guys who look normal and I hate to see men working toward an ideal that seems less than ideal to me.

It’s ironic that I feel like this about men, but I can’t bring myself to feel like this about myself.

Advert via: vintage_ads: Before Charles Atlas… WAY before..

• RT @DDRdiva: http://twitpic.com/p0dif – I'm moonwalking with MJ on #Wii We Cheer 🙂 #
• RT @whyisjake: I am totally digging these reproduction vintage Health & Safety WPA posters! http://is.gd/4RPHV #

• WRONG!! "Get pleasure out of life…as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure." – Sol Hurok http://tqpage.com/2787 #
• This review from @DDRdiva makes me want to buy We Cheer 2 for my Wii. I haven't had a exergame obsession for a while. http://wp.me/pzT7L-bi #
• RT @motivation: "The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need." – Ann Richards http://tqpage.com/39137 #
• RT @epersonae: Dawn bike ride was beautiful, lots of pink & gold clouds, fog on the lake, plus the just-past-full moon in the west. #
• RT @DDRdiva: New blog post: how I improved my number of kettlebell swings http://wp.me/pzT7L-b8 #
• RT @motivation: "Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it." – Joseph Conrad http://tqpage.com/1739 #
• RT @Befitt: (Vinoy Park in St. Pete, FL) This is where a lot of people go to exercise. http://bit.ly/1S2G1S #

• created a challenge "Fifty Miles by New Year's Eve" http://bit.ly/48W3kz #