Recent content by Leslie40

I use a vibrating alarm clock called Shake Awake that has a round disk that vibrates; the disk is attached to the main alarm clock with a cable. Although they suggest you put the vibrating disk under your pillow, that's way too close to my fellow sleeping husband and it would wake him up for...

Freeze the last box. Caramel gets really impenetrable when it's frozen. This does not work with Girl Scout Thin Mints, which are even better frozen, and very eatable.

We try to leave them at the door because we have a gravel driveway. Otherwise little gravel stones that get stuck in shoe treads leave little dents on the wood floor. I try to mop 1x week, but if I don't the bottom of my socks gross me out and force me to do it.

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I'm finally looking for a weight bar after a year of training using barbells only. Does anyone have any recommendations for favorites? I think a 5' bar is the right size (my workout space is a bit compact), although I've heard they make 4' bars too. It looks like the easiest and quickest for...

Or he could do Kick, Punch, and Crunch with some 5-lb ankle weights and 2.5lb wrist weights on. That should keep him quiet.

My husband and I have been doing your workouts since this spring. We just finished a 100-mile bike ride we do each year at this time. We've never felt so good finishing this ride. More amazing, we biked less training miles than we typically do before this year's ride. We finished together in...

Pink Panther movies. Benny Hill (yeah totally stupid, but I still like it)

I remember reading about this. What I understood was that at lower heart rate your body burns more of a mix of fuel (burns both glycogen/glucose and adipose tissue). The theory with this is that to burn fat/lose weight, you work out at a heart rate of between 50 and 75% of maximum to keep your...

Long work days make it harder. We both fight being tired or just grumpy when we get home. The workout that sounded like such a great idea while we were having coffee in the morning doesn't sound so great when we get home after work. My husband is doing Power Max and Gym Styles, plus...

I threw mine out too. All it ever did was freak me out about hydration shifts, then I'd feel lousy.

Great outfits! The Cathe Team makes them look better than any model photos they are using on the retailers' sites.

Yes!! Good luck, and may everything go smoothly. Don't forget to make us smile--the teasing and the laughs in your workouts are the best; they're what separate you from everyone else. I like that your workouts are serious, but with humor too.

Spinervals are good training. But without music they can be a bit dull. I have a one-hour "recovery ride" one and a (crazy) 3-hour training one for century rides. The one-hour recovery ride one is dull w/o music.

I read that you lose at the same rate that you build. Not sure how true that is, but I just took 2 weeks off for vacation and found I hadn't lost much. I reduced my previous weights (dumbells) by 5 lbs typically to start back in easier, but found after a week that I had no problem returning to...