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Entries in FIPS works out (2)

Monday
Feb102014

[FIPS Works Out] Contra Dancing Edition 

January is over. Have you already bagged on your New Year's Resolution to work out at least twice a week? Yeah, I thought so. This post is the second in a new series where FIPS writers tell you what they do to stay in shape.

Exercising in the winter is tough, and it’s easy to come up with excuses not to do it. After the holidays I came down with a cold, and I’m only now getting back to the gym. I kept saying to myself, “It’s too cold out! I’m still sick! I’m tired of watching reruns of “Charmed” while running on the elliptical!” So if, like me, you’re looking for a different kind of exercise, one that’s a little more social, then I have a solution for you. It’s called contra dancing, and you can do it right here in Park Slope at Brooklyn Contra. Dorky? Maybe. But hear me out.

If you’re wondering, “What the fuck is contra dancing?”, think back to middle school gym class and square dancing. All the boys were like, “Ick, no,” and the girls were like, “Fine, we’ll just be partners with each other, who needs you?” …Actually, that might have been high school. Either way, contra is like that, except much more fun.

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Monday
Feb032014

[FIPS Works Out] Gym Rat Edition 

January is over. Have you already bagged on your New Year's Resolution to work out at least twice a week? Yeah, I thought so. This post is the first in a new series where FIPS writers tell you what they do to stay in shape.

When I walk on by, girls be lookin’ like, “Damn, he fly.” Well…I work out—and I don’t work out just anywhere. I’m a passport member of the cream of the crop. That’s right, New York Sports Club, or NYSC for those of us literally in the club. Not to brag, but I enjoy some pretty sweet members-only amenities, like unlimited ratty-ass towels and tri-coloré shower accouterments. And the equipment—oh the equipment. Don’t even get me started. Would you believe that the benches are re-vinyled at least once every sweaty, oozing ‘roid rage, back-pimpled, ten years? Benefits, my friends. Benefits.

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