Jennifer Aniston, voted "world's most beautiful woman 2016" by People's magazine and "Sexiest actress alive 2016" by Glamour's magazine. A wonderful achievement but somehow these tags given by the western media leave me cold. At 47, she has a body that a 20 year old model can dream to have. The amount of discipline and hard work that's gone into it (not to mention the great genes) are commendable. She mentioned in an interview, she needs to dedicate a whole morning to it everyday. Beauty is her bread and butter. Have we ever given a thought to the average middle class woman in this world, a working mom/single woman, who either doesn't have the luxury of a quarter of an...
1. If you are doing activities like yoga and pilates that require you to bend over a lot, make sure it’s high waist and doesn’t expose more of your rear than you want to. 2. Fitted leggings are great for gym/yoga where the instructor needs to check your pose, but fitted doesn’t mean constricting. Make sure the elastic at your waist doesn’t pinch. 3. Don’t be misled/influenced by size. The size of clothes you wear in general may not correspond with the size of activewear. So look carefully at size charts, measure yourself before buying. 4. Pay attention to seams that dig into your skin for gym activities. Go for seamless leggings if you can. 5. Identify where...
Women often underestimate the importance of fashion when it comes to sports. So you’ll see gym-goers and runners just putting on anything they have in their sports wardrobe and going out for the quick morning run or the Zumba lesson before they shower and leave for work. Anything. Including their husbands tees, sometimes. Not done. When it comes to doing sports though, we just don’t seem to have the same kind of enthusiasm to invest time or money into apparel. This is the general trend in India and I must say, it’s quite different in the West. The reason the activewear industry is booming in the West is because of the regular woman’s interest in looking good even while doing...
Crunches are passe! Infact, I see my friends looking for something more meaningful for their abs! The right breathing with a slow workout has been proved extremely beneficial for the abs. That’s where Yoga steps in! So here – Seema Yadav (the flying runner and an avid Yoga practicioner) and I have put together 5 solid abs yoga poses that everyone regradless of a need for abs must do! By doing these you’ll engage your core muscles and concentrate on balance and breathing. Even though holding the pose for long is what you should aim for, don’t worry if you can’t. Stay as long as you can, breathe in and breathe out, and aim to hold each pose for 10...
I was looking at some 110 articles on my blog and it was shocking that I still hadn’t spoken about that one topic every run blogger would have knocked off their list! – My very first running mistakes or as the SEO advises (the things google makes us bloggers do for traction…arrghhh!) – 5-10-15 Running mistakes a new runners make! So here it is my version of it! You can skip the next 3 short paragraphs and get straight to the point! My first run was a 4k….the first time ever, 6 months post my second pregnancy! I was on my toes looking after my first and second, I had support – won’t lie! No major post natal depression! No...
