You’ve seen the informercials and perhaps you are wondering if P90X really works. In particular, does Ab Ripper X work the way they say it does? I took the plunge to purchase P90X a year ago. At the time I was not sure it was as good as the informercial says nor was I sure [...]

I’ve got some recent pictures up on Facebook. They are the same ones you can find here but there I’ve uploaded bigger pictures so you can really see me (just search for FitGirl1958 on Facebook or click on my ‘badge’ in the right hand column on this site). The thing is that I’ve had a [...]

I have been getting a lot of emails from women who are either doing more than an hour of exercise a day or want to and are asking me for guidance in coming up with an extended day training schedule.  The obvious premise all these women are operating under is that if a little exercise [...]

This last January, I was pretty pleased with the way I looked.  I was into my 2nd round of P90X and was enjoying my new physique.  But I figured there was more I could do so Chris and I kept at it.  Now I look at my body now compared to then and continue to [...]

I get asked a lot by women if they should do cardio to lose weight and my answer is always that they will see better results from weightlifting.  This is hard for them to comprehend because they feel like they are burning more calories during a cardio session than a weightlifting one. Now there are [...]

Chris and I had a pretty good workout this morning.  We did the Legs & Back workout and I really worked it – especially the pull ups.  And the rest of the day I’ve felt that workout in my legs and back. Muscle soreness is a condition I’ve not only been conditioned to accept, I [...]

Too often I get comments from women stating that they are not losing enough weight. And almost as often, when I ask, they admit that their clothes are fitting much better and/or that they have lost inches. And that always makes me wonder why we women tend to obsess about what the scale says. I [...]

Yesterday the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) put out study results in which they indicated that women, particularly us mature women should exercise 60 minutes a day just to prevent weight gain. WHAT? I don’t believe that’s true – it hasn’t been for me.  I do exercise a good 60 minutes a day [...]