28 Steps to 28 Years of STEPS This December 11, 2017, marks the 28th year in business for STEPS Fitness. It was originally founded by a college colleague, Kathy Alexander, and I in 1986 as a concept. We opened our first gym in 1989, so that’s what I’d call our start date. Despite the corporateRead More
Enjoying the holidays
New Year’s Fitness Resolutions
It happens every year around this time, as people wallow and wail about their having fallen off the wagon of fitness, diet, and even health: The infamous if not ridiculously self-abnegating New Year’s Resolution to do better this next year. It does not have to be this way, of course, and we all know it.Read More
The Insanity of Insanity
I rarely go off message here on this site. Typically I address a new bit of research or some mythologies of fitness, exercise, diet, or disease. But today, after the 355th mass murder in the US this year, and the advent – sorry, Christians, no intention to link these to Christmas – of Christmas holidays,Read More
Personal Fitness, Amsterdam Style
Enjoying the holidays without losing sight of your own well-being is the daunting task so many of us face, yet so few of us fail to achieve. Even with the so-called joys of the season, the gifting, the parties, the cards and letters, etc, we Americans seem to have an amazingly hard time simply livingRead More