Sunday, March 7, 2010

Just don't do them all at once

Here's list of 80 exercises you can do during the workday.

The article title promises "80 Effective Exercises You Can Do At Your Desk," but the tips include cubicle exercises and lunch or break-time stair climbs.

Worth checking out, if not for fitness results, at least for preventing injury from sitting hunched up over a keyboard all day long.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Paris fashion finds steampunk

The article in this weekend's Wall Street Journal is titled "Paris Finds Its Comfort Zone," but just take a look at the pictures and you'll see that what it's found is...steampunk.

Duster coats that wouldn't look out of place on Sherlock Holmes; Alice in Wonderland "Mat Hatter" top hats in brown and burgundy; and lace blouses right out of a Goth girl's closet?

You tell me.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

A great warmup

Snowboardered Gretchen Bleiler's warm up routine is completely do-able. It made me want to get on the trampoline (which she does later). But not on the snowboard.

This is part of a series the New York Times has done on athletes' gym routines.