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Archive for September, 2010
Award Your Own Genius Grants – Harvard Business Review
01 year ago
by Stephy
in Uncategorized
via Award Your Own Genius Grants – Julia Kirby – Our Editors – Harvard Business Review.
Love this idea. Especially creative departments and industries that really require innovation and forward thinking….need to incorporate time for their employees to be infused and ignited. They produce better ideas and can feel free to innovate. So many companies now a days just shove work down people’s throats, overwork them, dictate direction
The value of giving people that kind of slack to dream up and explore new ideas is a common theme in the literature on innovation management. In an oft-cited meta-analysis by Fariborz Damanpour, for example, it was determined to be a key driver of organizational innovation. Teresa Amabile proved the case in the negative, demonstrating that time pressure is the enemy of creativity.Granting slack time is also common practice in some of the world’s most inventive firms. The progenitor of the approach was 3M, with its famous release time for engineers to pursue pet projects. Today, Google is the poster child, with its “20 percent time” projects. My friend Uri Neren, who has compiled a database of innovation management practices, declares such “unofficial activity” to be one of the most prevalent conditions in businesses that excel at creativity.
Another Rainy Day Workout
01 year ago
by Stephy
in Fitness/Exercise
I love rain and all — but this is ridiculous! Although for boot camp — I am happy it was pouring. We can’t workout in the pouring rain because Mikey doesn’t want his equipment wet, oh and for our safety. We can workout in a slight drizzle, mist and light rain but pouring is out of the question.
So inside boot camp was a bit different — we went back to the as many reps as you can do for each station in the alotted time for 3 rounds. The time for most of the stations is 60 sec, but for one station its 90 — so you basically skip the rest time between stations.
Warmup
2min jump rope
Corex2
knee roll ups
crunches
hip missions
50 push-ups
general stretching
workout
3 rounds
65lb Behind the shoulder push press
jump rope or double unders
25lb KB squats/KB swings/KB Squats
25lb DB jackhammers
inch worms
Fit Families
11 year ago
I gave a presentation today called ‘Creating Fit Families’ to help inspire and support parents as they do the same for their own families. Someone asked me what are some exercises/fitness activities you can do if you don’t have a lot of money or you can’t really leave your house. Well — many of the ideas below are great things you can do WITH your kids at home.
Push-ups
Burpees
Jump rope (if the weather is bad, you can do this in your garage!)
Balance Disc
Squats
Lunges
Planks
Some equipment to have on hand:
Jump rope (weighted or standard)
medium-sized rubber ball: four square, kickball, dodgeball
tennis ball: tennis, catch (people or with a dog), batting practice
softball: softball, catch
Frisbee™: various games including Ultimate Frisbee™; catch
bat
football: various forms of football; catch
body ball: a wide variety of exercises
small trampoline: a wide variety of exercises
bicycle
basketball hoop (outdoor or indoor)
Spree Disc for balance
Repurpose/recycle everyday household items to turn them into free kids’ fitness equipment
Thanks, Tim Gunn
01 year ago
This is a quote from Tim Gunn, of Project Runway Fame — And it rings true in my experience and I find that i need reminding of this from time to time — so thanks Tim!
Take the high road. You will never regret it. No matter how much anger and strife you feel you’re facing, no matter how badly you want to lash out, don’t do it. You’ll never regret taking the high road. There isn’t one single time that I’ve lashed out that I haven’t deeply regretted it.
Rainy workout
01 year ago
by Stephy
in Uncategorized
Another rainy morning and I thought for sure we would be inside for today’s workout. It was pouring on and off — but oh no — As Nate has said before – ‘rain can’t stop the Hoaglunds’! So we did some modifications to the workout to accommodate – swapped in tabatas and push ups instead of box hand stand push-ups and tabata squats on the ball inside instead of ball squats. I finished in under 30 time limit and was happy we were done! There is something about being super soaked and sweaty that just doesn’t feel good.
warmup
side shuffle
push-ups
check points
skip jumps
corex2
partner dynamax ball drills (you bounce the ball on your partner’s stomach while they hold their feet 6in)
Ball kicks (you hold the ball and partner touches it each time lifting their legs up and down)
25 reverse partner high five push-ups
general stretching
workout
15,12,9,6,3
power clean squats
farmer run 20lb db (200,100,50,100,200m)
tabatas (60, 48,36,24,12)
1000m run (12,6)
push-ups x 2
The where is Kanye when you need him workout
01 year ago
Sometimes the rain isn’t such a welcome sight — especially at 5a when you know you will be doing your outdoor bootcamp in it! So I woke up and headed to camp hoping it would POUR so that we would be forced to be inside, but no such luck. And it was more misting than raining during camp — so just use your imagination on how much I enjoyed it.
One of the ladies said — we need Kanye right now — the song “Stronger” — but then I asked her — what are we getting stronger for? We are suburban ladies… gotta laugh somehow when you are doing burpees on the wet pavement. Try doing a broad jump on very wet pavement — there is little fun in that!
that that don’t kill me, can only make me stronger
–kanye west
warmup
rockette kicks
forward walking lunges
bounding
backpeddaling
corex2
placement situps
hip rockets
full back extensions
25 bottom up push-ups
general stretching
workoutx2
shoulder press 65lbs
broad jump burpees
ring rows x2
25lb KB swing steps
200 m run
Kanye West: Stronger -
Fitting in a workout
01 year ago
Here are just a few of the pics from yesterday’s Plane Pull — our team raised more than $2500 for VA Special Olympics and although we didn’t win – we did great considering we were one of the only teams comprised mainly of women. We pulled a 1200lb plane in like 8.6 seconds. It was a fun day with a great group of people for a great cause! Can’t get better than that!
I woke up to rain this AM — so I waited until it cleared up. I knew Scott and Nate were headed to LAX in the afternoon so I encouraged Hannah to get on her bike and come with me while I ran. It’s a great way to encourage fitness with your kids while you get your workout in too! Hannah is still getting comfortable on her bike, so we went around the outer block 2x for 40 minutes total. Sometimes you have to get creative to get a workout in — but whatever happens, you get it in! No excuses!
Team Plumbline Dulles Plane Pull
01 year ago
A few pics from today’s Team Plumbline Dulles Plane Pull — was a really fun event for a great cause – VA Special Olympics.
Plumbline Team-Dulles Plane Pull
Signs You’re a Gym Rat
01 year ago
by Stephy
in Fitness/Exercise
Although I am not a ‘gym rat’ per se — My boot camp group and I certainly know which dynamax balls are lighter than the stated weight, which jump ropes are easier to use than others, and which spot gets you out of the glare of the sun — oh and being women – we absolutely notice what we all wear. The minute someone has a new workout shirt or shorts, new hairband or style — we all notice. Signs you’re a boot camp attendee!
The gym rat is arguably the greatest rat of all. She’s goal-oriented, strong, fast as a bullet, and knows the best order and time of day for working a room full of complicated machinery, pumping serious iron, and zapping calories. Has all your time sweating it out indoors turned you into a serious rat? Here are 10 signs you might be part gym rodent and a full on workout wonder.
1. You map out your daily workouts on your Google calendar and set it to send you a text reminder but never actually need the reminder. You’re on the routine like a rat on cheese.
2. You know the gym staff’s schedule. They know your middle name, job, and birth date.
3. You have a favorite set of dumbbells, favorite treadmill, favorite place to stretch, and so on.
4. You notice when a fellow rat wears the same shorts or tee in one week.
5. You’ve made up life stories for the other regular characters.
For five other ways you know you’re a gym rat, read more.
6. You regularly shun or reschedule social activities to work around your scheduled gym time. Your motto is: Efficient workout first, fun later.
7. You know which gym goers hog the treadmill, weight machines, and TV remotes.
8. You’ve architected a plan for streamlining the gym’s efficiency in your mind and find yourself discussing it with your spouse or friends.
9. You’re the mayor of your gym on Foursquare. Or you would be if you checked in.
10. When you can’t be reached, your friends or spouse just assume you’re sweating it out.
Original Fitness Nut Jack LaLanne Approaches 96
01 year ago
by Stephy
in Fitness/Exercise
As the Original Fitness Nut Jack LaLanne Approaches 96, He Says He’s Still ‘A Nut’.
How awesome is Jack LaLanne? 96 years old, still fit, still exercising….
(Sept. 23) — When you’re turning 96 and still as fit as a fiddle, people are invariably going to ask your secret.
Ask fitness pioneer Jack LaLanne his secret for a long life, and you’ll get a variety of answers.
One day, he might say, “I can’t die. It’s bad for business.” On another, he’ll say, “I can’t afford to die. It’s too expensive.”
Maybe it’s fruitless to ask health secrets from a man who celebrated his 70th birthday by swimming 1.5 miles while towing 70 boats with 70 people from the Queensway Bay Bridge in the Long Beach Harbor to the Queen Mary — handcuffed and shackled — because to LaLanne, there is no secret: He’s been exercising and eating right since he was 15.
Jack LaLanne Says He’s Still A ‘Nut’ At 96
Deborah Denker
As he approaches his 96th birthday, Jack LaLanne still exercises every day. However, he no longer celebrates his birthday by towing boats with his teeth or doing 1,000 chin-ups.
Now, 81 years later, LaLanne is still exercising every day, and so is Elaine, his 85-year-old wife.
