Intown Runaround: The Cult of FitWit
By Tim Sullivan Oakhurst resident and father of three (soon to be four) Josh Guerrieri is the founder and lead trainer of FitWit fitness camp. He and his wife Erin have developed a program that reaps charity dollars out of every pushup, squat and lunge. What are the origins of FitWit? First give me the [...]
Exercise in Disguise: Pole dancing isn’t just for strippers
By Wendy Binns and Elizabeth Holmes Excuse us, please. We hate to interrupt your routine. Perhaps you’re pedaling away on the stationary bike or sweating through another hill on the treadmill as you read this. But, we’re back and we must ask again: when was the last time you tried one of the latest Intown [...]
Stay fit with hula-hooping
By Wendy Binns I am drinking red wine and eating popcorn in my kitchen with one of my best friends, Julie. She’s telling me about an increasingly popular exercise in disguise – hula-hooping. What? Get fit and have fun? Can I believe what I’m hearing? To give you some background, I’m an Urban Body Fitness [...]
Intown Runaround: Team Awesome
By Tim Sullivan Her name is Cassi Niemann. She is a 31-year-old architect who lives in East Lake and you can call her Ms. Awesome. Along with friends Anne-Marie DeBacker and Shelly Holdren, she founded Team Awesome in 2007. Here she debriefs me on the adjectively named group. What are the origins of Team Awesome? [...]
Lean & Green for 2011
By Helen Grebe The new year’s hottest trend is lean and green. No, we don’t mean the economy, although that certainly has given us inspiration to trim everything in our lives. Enter the New York Times touted personal trainer Dan McGrath, a nine-year veteran of the fitness industry and owner of Body Solutions Personal Training and [...]
Intown Runaround: Ultimately Eastside
By Tim Sullivan The Atlanta Ultimate Flying Disc Club at large may debate these findings, but this scribe is declaring East Atlanta the Mecca of the sport. Atop that Mecca sits Emory Researcher and UFDC ambassador Brian Lynch. Is it Ultimate Frisbee, Ultimate, or something else? Most just call it Ultimate. Frisbee is a trademarked [...]
