Yesterday Marcy suggested we hit the beach this weekend, which immediately made me lift my shirt and check out my abs. A not uncommon reaction, I’m guessing.
When we think of exposing our bodies to the world at large, we tend not to think of our chicken-wing shoulders, our flabby arms, our spindly legs: Our gut reaction is to think of our gut. While obsessing over six-pack abs and a flat tummy may seem the ultimate in physical vanity, it’s actually a primal response grounded in sound physiology. As any trainer will tell you, the key to physical well-being starts with your core muscle group. Build strong back and abdominal muscles and you’re building the foundation for overall physical health. If it makes you look hot in the process, so much the better.read more
Here’s a radical proposal for the workweek ahead: Let’s band together and take back the lunch hour. And once we get it back, let’s put it to good use.
Let’s take a walk.
A fact that will surprise few of you: In 2006, KFC — the fried chicken people — conducted a survey of working America’s lunchtime habits that found, among other things, that nearly two-thirds of worker bees surveyed declared the lunch “hour” to be “the biggest myth in office life.” In practice, 52 percent said they took less than 30 minutes for lunch and 58 percent reported that they eat at their desk and work through lunch.read more
How many times today did you walk into a room and forget why you were there, pick up the phone only to forget who you wanted to call, take a half hour to find where you put your car keys?
If you’re of a certain age — that being the middle one — more than once, no doubt. And no doubt when one of the above happened you took it as further proof that your brain continues its rapid descent into the abyss. Well, Ha! You’re wrong!read more
As he stood next to a stack of books and a table full of killer food Sunday afternoon at the Barnes & Noble across from Cary Towne Center, the icons of Matt Goulding’s life were within 50 yards. Across Maynard Street was Cary High School, where Goulding graduated in 1999; at the far end of the parking lot was Macaroni Grill where he rose from busboy to the chain restaurant’s chief antagonist (and more recently, a key ally). And the books next to him represented the franchise created by him and David Zinczenko and that has succeeded far beyond their — or anyone’s — dreams.read more
If you’ve ever visited Kids Together Park in Cary, you probably had no idea it was designed back in the mid-1990s as a handicap-accessible park. There are no signs touting the park’s handicap-accessible features, no special section with specially designed equipment. That, says one of the adults responsible for the park’s existence, is by design.read more