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Sarah Cosgrove »
Pump up the volume, in more ways than one
Posted on 9:30am Monday 1st February 2010
I SWEAR to God that Janet sounded sweet as anything on the phone, and super-friendly too. So imagine my surprise when five minutes into her Body Pump class at Finchley LA Fitness I was confronted with a yelling, grinning, blonde amazon telling me to "PUSH!"
Sarah Cosgrove »
Swimming - exercise without mirrors
Posted on 8:41pm Monday 25th January 2010
WEEK two proper for Fat Girl Gets Fit and I can report that, yes, I did actually do some exercise at the weekend, in the form of 30 lengths of my local pool – woo hoo!
Sarah Cosgrove »
'It was like a punishment camp' - with smiles
Posted on 5:17pm Friday 22nd January 2010
GREG Zwirn, LA Fitness' New Barnet deputy manager, came to meet me in a pinstripe suit, without a trainer in sight, something which was strangely reassuring.
Sarah Cosgrove »
Induction - isn't that what they do to heavily pregnant women?
Posted on 12:50pm Tuesday 19th January 2010
AS lunchtime approaches on THE DAY OF THE GYM I am beginning to feel somewhat trepidatious about this evening's induction.
Sarah Cosgrove »
Snow excuses now
Posted on 1:59pm Monday 18th January 2010
SO, the thing about starting a fitness plan is it helps if the country isn't incapacitated by snow soon after.
Sarah Cosgrove »
Fat girl gets fit? Well it is January after all
Posted on 5:41pm Monday 4th January 2010
I AM fat. Not gigantic, not enormous or even to big to buy clothes in some high street shops but still persistently, prodigiously, depressingly fat.
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