Healthy Habits: Intro Show Featuring Interview with ‘Coach Carla’ Ferrer

January 3, 2012 By 4 Comments
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Editor’s note: Healthy Habits is a new regular online radio show/podcast that will be hosted by MSF founder and editor Jerod Morris and Kimberly Westphall, the author of MSF’s ‘Blogging Fitness’ series.

The first episode, which features an interview with ‘Coach Carla’ Ferrer, as Kimberly explains below, goes live tonight at 8:00 ET (7:00 CT). Listen live right here:

 

Update: Our thanks to Coach Carla for a great interview! Listen with the player above or download the mp3 of the episode here: Healthy Habits Episode 1.

Happy 2012!

Time to jump on the New Year’s Resolution bandwagon again. Hopefully by January 3 your hangover has diminished, you’re tucking all your mistakes away in 2011, and you don’t plan on eating lard-filled foods anymore like you did over the holidays.

What better time to talk about shaping up?

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Top 10 Non-Sports Mobile Apps For Sports Fans

December 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Sports fans everywhere are about to get some time off for the holidays. In between games or during commercials, here are 10 non-sports apps for sports fans to cleanse their mental palette in between the glorious angst and revelry that is sports spectating.

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Blogging Fitness: The Holiday Smackdown – Fit Fitness Into the Holidays

December 18, 2009 By 9 Comments
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Don’t let excess pounds put a damper on your festivities

‘Tis the season…”

‘Tis the season for Thanksgiving Day turkey and stuffing, Christmas cookie baking, frosting, decorating, and lots and lots of …eating! The anticipation for the holiday season seems to grow each year, as well as the waist line.

Let’s discuss a few things that we can all do to get moving and ring in 2010 a few pounds lighter.

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Blogging Fitness: A Look Into the Life and Training of an Ironman Triathlete

October 13, 2009 By 5 Comments
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Redefining your fitness limits: A look into the life of an Ironman Triathlete

Regardless of your fitness level, I think we can all agree that triathlons are a gigantic feat. Even more gigantic is the traditional Ironman Triathlon.

Can you fathom swimming 2.4 miles and then biking 112 miles?

Oh, and just in case that didn’t tucker you out, why don’t you go ahead and finish it off with a full-fledged marathon, which is 26.4 miles.

Racing in that order without a break absolutely blows my mind. I am currently training for just a marathon and that is pushing me to the limit. Adding swimming and biking to the mix is a physical marvel.

As difficult as it is to fathom the physical demands of participating in an Ironman Triathlon, why would anyone in their right mind do it more than once?

I am in complete awe of Carlos Lema, a mega-athlete who recently moved from the Big Apple to Dallas in May of 2009.

Lema cannot get enough of triathlons.

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Blogging Fitness: Kick Your Workouts Up a Notch with Kickboxing

October 1, 2009 By 2 Comments
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[Editor's note: I am very happy this morning to introduce a new regular health and fitness feature here at Midwest Sports Fans: Blogging Fitness, written by our newest contributor, fitness instructor and enthusiast Kimberly Westphall.

Learn more about Kimberly in the About the Author section at the bottom of this post.]

We all have our own motives for fitness — whether we are trying to trim down or tone up. Fitness gurus can argue for hours about the best fitness regime for your body. I have tried many of these regimes, ranging from Pilates and Yoga to rock climbing.

The common denominator I must have in all of these workouts is breaking a sweat.

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