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We get married because we love someone. We quit our job to start our own business because of passion. Were making our own way, following our own path in the name of building a life that we can be truly happy living.
We start working out because were unhappy with how we look. We start working out because our Dad had a heart attack at a young age and we dont want to suffer a similar fate.
Dennis Nett / The Post-StandardMark Hayes, aka “Big Sexy,” works out at Aspen Fitness in May with trainer Jason Frankoff.
Syracuse, NY — Big Sexy, a corpulent character who strips off his XL Syracuse Crunch jersey and shakes his bulky booty at hockey games to the delight of fans, is by day, Mark Hayes, 27-year-old director of group sales for the local American Hockey League franchise.
A couple months ago, Hayes announced through the Crunch that he planned to lose 78 of his 328 pounds and to transform Big Sexy into Slim Sexy by the time the Crunch players start training camp in September.
The Post-Standard talked with Hayes and published a story on May 31 about his weight loss journey, and at that point, he had lost 33 pounds.
Six miles into an 18-mile race along the Pacific Crest Trail in 2010, Kate Clemens felt a sharp pain in her knee. Instead of stopping, the 29-year-old personal trainer from San Francisco took off her shoes and ran barefoot. Without shoes, her knee pain disappeared and she was able to finish the race. “I felt a difference the minute I took my shoes off,” she recalls. “When I’m barefoot, my alignment is better and I run more from my core.”
Clemens is following in the footsteps of the growing number of runners who have been hitting the streets and trails without their sneakers. P
The blogs are buzzing about the identity of the father of January Jones’s baby. We don’t care about that. We just love it when we spy celebrities like the “Mad Men” star, who is featured in the upcoming X-Men movie, star clutching a yoga mat. We hope that this gets people buzzing about the benefits of prenatal yoga instead!
There are so many people doing so many things wrong in the gym that I hardly know where to start when it comes to trying to get them to change their ways. The fitness field is unlike any other that I can think of, in that there has been little change in the mainstream publics approach to exercise over the past 35 years. Every time I workout in a gym (not my own) I see an amazing array of ridiculousness.
So here is a list of seven things that people have to stop doing in the gym, in no particular order. Oh, and Ill say please, because you really need to change.
1) Please stop doing all of the lateral, front and bent-over raises. You arent helping your shoulders, you arent building muscles or strength in any meaningful way, and you are wasting your time.