Thrive with Jen Sinkler

As part of my annual great escape from Minnesota winters, I spent a week in Arizona doing yoga with two of my good friends and peers in the fitness industry, Neghar Fonooni of Eat, Lift & Be Happy and Jill Coleman of JillFit Physiques and Metabolic Effect. Besides having a marvelous time sweating it out in the desert, we found ourselves [...]

Back in January, I hit California to cover USA Rugby‘s National Development Summit, and over the course of the weekend I got to catch up with Chicago-based rugby coach and personal trainer Aaron Manheimer, NASM-PES, of Body By Manheimer. We decided to rally for a 7 a.m. hotel-gym workout he created, and finally thought to [...]

I spent an hour last sunny Sunday morning crawling, climbing, sprinting, jumping, balancing, throwing, catching, and generally having a great time frolicking about scenic Central Park in New York City. Since I was in town, my Twitter buddy Jonathan Angelilli of Dynamic Results Fitness had suggested I come out for one of the free MovNat workouts he hosts [...]

In a “Faces of MN” video interview I did last July, the interviewer, Joel Carlson, asked what I did for exercise. I explained I lifted weights, and how often the follow-up question is, “Yeah, but what do you do for cardio?” My answer is always, always, always, “I lift weights faster.” Anyone who’s ever completed a 5-minute [...]

Like the kettlebell swing, the kettlebell clean is a complicated exercise, but it can often be tidied up with just three simple cues. 1) Pretend you’re holding a cute lil clutch purse under your arm during the movement. Or a newspaper, if you’re not the purse-clutching type. The idea is to keep your elbow close to your [...]

I did a couple CrossFit workouts over the course of this past week, and in the process I was reintroduced to the hand-release pushup, a devil of a pushup variation that thoroughly tuckers the arms and makes you want to cuddle with the floor for longer and longer periods of time between reps. The next [...]