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Exercise and Fitness

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Justice for People Who Bought Skechers 'Shape-Ups' But Are Still Fat

    Did you buy a pair of Skechers "Shape-Ups" hoping to lose some weight? Sadly, are you still fat? Well, then, there just might be a (partial) refund coming your way.

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    Your Neighborhood Might Be Making Your Kid a Fat Ass

    It's been apparent for a while now that America's children are becoming alarmingly rotund. Obesity rates have skyrocketed, tripling among children in the last 30 years, with the increase assumed by most to be powered by Chicken McNuggets and Xbox. A recent study by the Seattle Children's Research In ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    The Downward Pony: Dr. Hannah Evergreen Teaches Yoga...For Horses

    Image Source​First they started cranking up the heat. Then they switched to doing it on paddleboards. This Saturday they're doing it at a rave. But when it comes to yoga, Dr. Hannah Evergreen has them all beat. On Saturday mornings she teaches a small herd of horses (and their owners) how to s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2011

    Vatican Exorcist and Mark Driscoll Agree: Yoga Is Satanic

    It's easy to pile on Seattle megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll and his crazypants ramblings about how practicing yoga is a one-way ticket to hell. But Driscoll isn't alone. In fact, the Pope's former personal demon banisher agrees: Yoga = Satan.

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2011

    Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill Church Pastor, Claims Yoga Is 'Demonic'

    ​It's been a while since we've checked in on Seattle's most famous religious idiot, Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Megachurch. What subject does this vessel of holy enlightenment want to cover today? Yoga? Really? Like, the stretching exercise my mom does?

  • Calendar

    October 19, 2011

    Blackalicious

    ​It's been a while since we've checked in on Seattle's most famous religious idiot, Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Megachurch. What subject does this vessel of holy enlightenment want to cover today? Yoga? Really? Like, the stretching exercise my mom does?

  • Diversions

    September 7, 2011

    Dirtily Awesome Advice

    ​It's been a while since we've checked in on Seattle's most famous religious idiot, Mark Driscoll, pastor of Mars Hill Megachurch. What subject does this vessel of holy enlightenment want to cover today? Yoga? Really? Like, the stretching exercise my mom does?

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2011

    Stephen Paea, Former Oregon State DT, Is the Bench-Pressingest Man to Ever Hit the NFL Scouting Combine (VIDEO)

    ​If handed a 225-pound barbell while lying face-up on a bench, the average human would probably end up with a crushed larynx or a severed head. Freshly graduated Oregon State Defensive Tackle Stephen Paea is not an average human.

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2011

    Claire Dederer

    ​If handed a 225-pound barbell while lying face-up on a bench, the average human would probably end up with a crushed larynx or a severed head. Freshly graduated Oregon State Defensive Tackle Stephen Paea is not an average human.

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2010

    Today in Sex: Runners and Hyper-Texting Teens Hogging All the Sex

    ​According to a new study out of the UK, "one in ten joggers have sex at least once a day and three per cent of joggers said they have sex twice a day." Oof. So where does that leave the rest of us? Well, this same study asked people who never run how often they went at it and one in four repo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 29, 2010

    Run Scared 5k

    ​According to a new study out of the UK, "one in ten joggers have sex at least once a day and three per cent of joggers said they have sex twice a day." Oof. So where does that leave the rest of us? Well, this same study asked people who never run how often they went at it and one in four repo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    Kyron Horman's Stepmom Implicated by Facebook Sleuths

    ​UPDATE: Kyron's father has separated from Moulton-Horman. Kyron Horman is the adorable Oregon second-grader who went missing last Friday. His stepmom Terri Moulton Horman dropped the seven-year-old off at school that day and was one of the last people to see him alive. Now, thanks to some int ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Alison Goldfrapp Leads a Vampire Jazzercise Class in the New Video for "Alive"

    I guess that vampire trend still isn't going anymore. In the video for Goldfrapp's new single, the 80s-tastic "Alive," Alison Goldfrapp looks more like a cult leader than a pop singer with her weird headband and flowing white outfit. Lasers shoot from Goldfrapp's hands as she leads an aerobics cla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Album Review: Goldfrapp's Head First Is Light On Edge, Heavy on Fluff

    ​Artist: Goldfrapp Album: Head First Label: Mute Release date: March 22 Rating (Skip, Stream, or Buy): Stream, for your next aerobic workout Download Watch: The music video for "Rocket" In 2006, Goldfrapp released a timelessly sexy record called Supernature. The album contained the glam hits ... More >>

  • News

    March 31, 2010

    April Fool's Day Issue: 22 Things About Seattle That We WISH Were a Joke

    While it's customary to pull pranks and serve up hoax stories around April Fool's Day, we find ourselves more amazed at what ISN'T a joke in Seattle these days. Hence: our second annual list of things that sound like they should be a joke, but aren't.

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Wednesday, Bright and Early: Free Yoga and a Smoothie

    credit: wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/interbay/storecalendar.php​Have you let your yoga membership lapse? Want an instigation to get out of bed a little earlier? Well, Whole Foods is giving it to you: one free yoga class, and an Odwalla smoothie, in hopes that you'll check out their new digs on ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 30, 2009

    Resolution Run

    credit: wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/interbay/storecalendar.php​Have you let your yoga membership lapse? Want an instigation to get out of bed a little earlier? Well, Whole Foods is giving it to you: one free yoga class, and an Odwalla smoothie, in hopes that you'll check out their new digs on ... More >>

  • News

    November 11, 2009

    Bench Press

    A judge turns to the gym after a life in robes.

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    Former State Supreme Court Justice Faith Ireland Throws Off Robes, Picks Up Barbells

    The ruling is in -- Ireland wins​As many people have observed, there are indeed second acts in American life. Ruthless capitalists become philanthropists. Congress members leave office and return to the Capitol as lobbyists. TV broadcasters turn into Republican non-partisan politicians. But he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    Press Release of the Week

    ​It's only Tuesday, and yet I have decided. Please, God, let there be a book tour. I promise we will send an intern to cover it. Late-night infomercial pitchman Tony Little has a new motivational book coming out--as if his ponytail weren't motivating enough--and the release offers factoids inc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    One-Armed Push-ups for City Council

    After last night's Candidate Survivor, you may have new criteria for choosing your City Councilmembers. The event pitted City Council candidates against one another in Council-related and distinctly non-Council related competitions. Apparently the highlights included multiple City Council candidates ... More >>

  • News

    June 24, 2009

    Gay Equality Through Yoga

    Organizers of an outdoor class are hoping for unity, community, and a $15 donation at Cal Anderson.

  • News

    December 10, 2008

    Tax Department to Yogis: We'll Be Flexible

    The city tells the yoga community they won't be taxed unless they’re trying to get fit. Seriously.

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2008

    Yoga Tax-Ruling Released: Levy Will Now Be Assessed Only on Those Primarily Seeking Buns of Steel

    OK, not exactly. But that's sort of it. As I wrote a couple weeks ago, the DOR has been grappling with where yoga falls in our state law's somewhat bizarre distinction between "physical fitness classes" and "instruction." The former are considered retail sales, whereas the latter are not. For a whil ... More >>

  • News

    November 26, 2008

    Enlightened Bureaucrats Won’t Tax Yoga

    Score one for the Yogis. Not that we’re keeping score.

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2008

    Yoga Will Now Be Tax-Free in Washington State As Well As Fashionable

    (Photo of Russell Simmons via PerezHilton.com, natch) Earlier this month, a great cry of anguish went up among the otherwise tranquil and impassive practitioners of yoga, when they learned that the State Department of Revenue was going to start levying a sales tax on yoga classes. Can you imagine? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2008

    Bye Bye 24 Hour fitness. There’s another way to workout at 2 a.m.

    (Photo of Russell Simmons via PerezHilton.com, natch) Earlier this month, a great cry of anguish went up among the otherwise tranquil and impassive practitioners of yoga, when they learned that the State Department of Revenue was going to start levying a sales tax on yoga classes. Can you imagine? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2008

    Sutra's Chef Talks About Closing the Circle

    (Photo of Russell Simmons via PerezHilton.com, natch) Earlier this month, a great cry of anguish went up among the otherwise tranquil and impassive practitioners of yoga, when they learned that the State Department of Revenue was going to start levying a sales tax on yoga classes. Can you imagine? ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 27, 2008

    Yoga Bitch

    (Photo of Russell Simmons via PerezHilton.com, natch) Earlier this month, a great cry of anguish went up among the otherwise tranquil and impassive practitioners of yoga, when they learned that the State Department of Revenue was going to start levying a sales tax on yoga classes. Can you imagine? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2008

    'Bama Brings In Biden

    (Photo of Russell Simmons via PerezHilton.com, natch) Earlier this month, a great cry of anguish went up among the otherwise tranquil and impassive practitioners of yoga, when they learned that the State Department of Revenue was going to start levying a sales tax on yoga classes. Can you imagine? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2008

    Bayh? Really? That'd Sure Suck

    (Photo of Russell Simmons via PerezHilton.com, natch) Earlier this month, a great cry of anguish went up among the otherwise tranquil and impassive practitioners of yoga, when they learned that the State Department of Revenue was going to start levying a sales tax on yoga classes. Can you imagine? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2008

    OMG! Obama's Veep Will Be...

    (Photo of Russell Simmons via PerezHilton.com, natch) Earlier this month, a great cry of anguish went up among the otherwise tranquil and impassive practitioners of yoga, when they learned that the State Department of Revenue was going to start levying a sales tax on yoga classes. Can you imagine? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2008

    Saturday: Burien Strawberry Festival

    (Photo of Russell Simmons via PerezHilton.com, natch) Earlier this month, a great cry of anguish went up among the otherwise tranquil and impassive practitioners of yoga, when they learned that the State Department of Revenue was going to start levying a sales tax on yoga classes. Can you imagine? ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 26, 2007

    Polar Bear Plunge

    If you’re insane, you’ll love this exhilarating activity

  • News

    November 14, 2007

    The Road to London, 2012

    Bellevue-raised Mike Sayenko is part of a new youth infusion in the marathon.

  • Calendar

    November 7, 2007

    Yoga Behind Bars Benefit

    The bars don’t bend, but you can

  • Food

    September 19, 2007

    Eating Well at Husky Stadium

    As sports concessions go, this place is a bargain.

  • Music

    February 21, 2007

    Bob Seger and a Cross-Country Casualty

    How failure to heed the singer's warning cost a dynastic distance-running program a state title.

  • Arts

    November 22, 2006

    What's up Tuesday

    Get your flow on.

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2006

    Fifth Street Shuffle

    Get your flow on.

  • Diversions

    December 7, 2005

    For Naughty or Nice: Boot Camp

    What could be better than humiliation, discipline, and a great workout?

  • Diversions

    April 6, 2005

    Let Her Entertain You

    Tricia Murphy's striptease aerobics are a healthy bump and grind.

  • Diversions

    April 7, 2004

    Sweat in Style

    Half the fun of shaping up is looking sexy doing it.

  • Diversions

    November 26, 2003

    Wild Things

    Recent books offer yoga enlightenment from the animal kingdomdogs, elephants, and men.

  • News

    January 23, 2002

    It's all about the breath

    Is yoga the aerobics of the '00s?

  • News

    September 19, 2001

    What's in What's out

    If you really want to know...

  • News

    April 4, 2001

    News Clips— Flat or fit?

    If you really want to know...

  • News

    January 31, 2001

    News Clips— Photo of the Week

    If you really want to know...

  • Diversions

    January 26, 2000

    Proposed charter schools

    If you really want to know...

  • Film

    October 20, 1999

    Knock-out

    On the Ropes: The real fight's outside the ring.

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