The Big Q wants you to put down that remote control and start getting fit …right after you pull out your credit card and call the number on the screen, of course.
I was watching QVC this morning and apparently they have a crush on Gaiam products this week. Is it just me, or has QVC been on a fitness kick lately? I’ve seen P90X Workout DVDs, Hip Hop Abs, Tony Horton’s 10-Minute WOrkout, and a series of weird and wacky fitness gadgets like the Leg Magic and the Bean Supreme. But not all of the products they’re trying to sell you are wacky gadgets. Like Px90, some of their Gaiam products are actually worth checking out.
I just listened to my first XM / SIRIUS radio show on Oprah and Friends this morning. It was Gayle King talking with Annie Lee of The FIRM about their fitness products. One of them is a fun-looking new gizmo they have called The FIRM Wave.
Apparently Gayle loves this thing. Has anyone else tried it? I have a FIRM workout DVD from years back that I love and still use quite often.
If you missed Gayle’s talk with fitness instructor Annie Lee don’t worry. You can catch it again on XM / SIRIUS radio today at 2pm and again at 8pm or you can listen to it on Oprah’s website any time – Click Here to listen.
UPDATE 2: I did manage to find the commercial on YouTube, which probably means it’s playing on television somehwere… maybe I’m just not staying up late enough ;-P
I was watching Four Corners (a fantastic 20/20 type investigative journalism show in Australia) this afternoon and there was a special broadcast on Muscle Dysmorphia (AKA Bigorexia), which is sort of the opposite of anorexia.
As most of you will know, anorexic women see a distorted image of their bodies in the mirror, which causes them to think they are too fat no matter how skinny they get. Bigorexic men (although neither disease is 100% gender-specific, the are drastically skewed in either direction) look in the mirror and see themselves as too skinny, no matter how big and muscular they get.
You can see it marketed to men when you watch bodybuilding videos in much the same way that those anorexia websites celebrate anorexia. Neither extreme is “good for you” and both can lead to long-term health problems, yet muscle dysmorphia doesn’t seem to have as bad a reputation as anorexia. Read the rest of this entry »
The Big Q wants you to put down that remote control and start getting fit …right after you pull out your credit card and call the number on the screen, of course.
I just listened to my first XM / SIRIUS radio show on Oprah and Friends this morning. It was 
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