AT regulars will have noticed the recurring "Home Workout" posts. You may have enjoyed the links, ignored them, or thought, "Get your fitness junk out of my design blog?"
Ouch! And fair enough.
Back story: Way back in 2004, when Martha was in the Big House, Maxwell and I launched AT.com together. Time passed, and then one day in yoga class, I thought: "This crazy urban fitness scene -- gyms, yoga studios, Lululemon, etc. -- needs a blog too."
People struggle mightily to take care of their bodies, and that impulse comes, at its best, from a similar place as the desire to live in a clean, uncluttered, beautiful home. Sometimes the overlap is not strictly metaphorical: Homes need space for stretching, or (god forbid) exercise equipment, not to mention industrial strength blenders for making kale smoothies. Please forgive us if some of our cross-posts to date have been off point, or just lame. We suck, but will redouble our efforts to make our links painfully relevant, and/or brilliantly funny. Which brings us to today...
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(you don't suck. at all.)
But coconut milk (water?) does! Yuk, I'd rather LOSE if that's a prize! ;^)
How about a thread sometime on home exercise equipment that is decent quality, gives a satisfoactory workout, but takes up minimal space? (If such a thing exists?)
view SherryBinNH's profile
I really don't mind the workout links, stories, etc.
I think one of the first posts featured catty quotes about
"former fatties," which turned a few people off, and they let you know... so, sensitively done : ) Im ok with it.
view baba yaga's profile
speaking of home exercise equipment that is high quality, gives a great workout and can take up minimal space, check out the water rower. well designed and beautiful.
http://www.waterrower.co.uk/
view kahlil19107's profile
I actually enjoy the Social Workout links/posts. It inspired me to try (and er, not completely followthrough) on the April Workout Challenge (between the Cure and work and stuff, I think I got a little self-improvement overloaded!).
If anyone is complaining about these few posts, I think they need to look at the top navigation bar to this site. Apartment Therapy is not just about shelterporn, it's a lifestyle site. If we feel justified having mini-sites devoted to cooking, green living, technology, and kids; home fitness blends in quite seamlessly.
Like Sherry said above, doing some articles that might segue between AT's main thesis and what Social Workout is about would be a great help, and I think the combining of the two sites has a lot of future potential.
view arttarte's profile
I totally think home fitness has a place here, because it certainly can become a style issue. My problem-solving is limited to shoving the dumbels under the bed, so I'd love to hear other solutions.
And yes, there is a coconut water. Coconut water is the juice found inside a coconut. Coconut milk is what you get when you pulverize the flesh of a coconut with (regular) water. Eh, visit the kitchn sometime! (Teasin')
view whytephoenix's profile
Oddly enough, Kitchn is blocked for me at work, but none of the other AT sister sites are. Which is sad because I sometimes DO see things that I'd like to read over there.
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