★FitStars: Olympic Swimmer Amanda Beard

Amanda Beard is one of the most well-known Olympic American swimmers of all time. With seven Olympic medals to her name and the former world record holder in the 200-meter breaststroke, Beard also models, writes, is the face of Aqua Sphere swimwear and is a mom. Girlfriend is busy! We recently got to chat with her for [...]

★FitStars: Professional Skier and Olympic Medalist Julia Mancuso

Professional skier and three-time Olympic medalist Julia Mancuso is one of many of the amazing athletes who inspire us to be better—and work out harder to reach our true potential. (Seriously, don’t you think all of us have a little Olympian on the inside just busting to be seen, even if we’re not “good” enough to compete on [...]

Talk About Girl Power: Women’s Pole Vault at the Olympics (With Giveaway!)

We are blogging on behalf of the Visa Go World Olympic Campaign and receive compensation for our time, but the thoughts, words, and promotions on this page are FBG’s, not Visa’s. The gift card promotion is not sponsored by Visa in any way.  There may be just a few days left of the London 2012 Olympic Games, but we [...]

Getting You Pumped for the London 2012 Olympic Games!

We are blogging on behalf of the Visa Go World Olympic Campaign and receive compensation for our time, but the thoughts, words, and promotions on this page are FBG’s, not Visa’s. The gift card promotion is not sponsored by Visa in any way.  We are just hours—hours, people—away from the London 2012 Olympic Games’ opening ceremonies, and holy-moly, [...]

How Michael Phelps Trains Outside of the Pool (And a Giveaway to Get You Psyched!)

We are blogging on behalf of the Visa Go World Olympic Campaign and receive compensation for our time, but the thoughts, words, and promotions on this page are FBG’s, not Visa’s. The gift card promotion is not sponsored by Visa in any way.  We are simply fascinated by the workouts of different Olympians. So when Visa [...]

Soccer Star Abby Wambach Talks Training, Eats and Olympics Predictions!

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (in which case, come on out—non-rock living is pretty rad!), you know who Abby Wambach is. And if you’ve been reading us for awhile, you know how obsessed we are with the Olympics every darn time it comes around (proof here and here). So when Arnold Breads (the [...]

Getting to Know 3 Biking Olympians: Georgia Gould, Katerina Nash and Catherine Pendrel

Olympics fever is strong at FBG HQ these days. Between reading Kristen’s inspiring post and watching enough swimming time trials to think that maybe, just maybe, I could master the fly stroke, we’re summer Olympics obsessed. So when we had the chance to chat with three members of LUNA’s Pro team who are going to the Olympics [...]

★FitStars: Olympic Beach Volleyball Player Misty May-Treanor

Oooh, we are getting all Olympics crazed up in here! Not only are the Summer Olympic games fun to watch, but they are super-duper inspiring. Case in point: Misty May-Treanor. A two-time gold medalist, and currently the winningest female beach volleyball player with 110 individual championship wins in domestic and international competition, she is a force [...]

What are your fitness inspirations?

As I mentioned earlier this week, Olympians and Navy Seals have been my inspiration as of late. They’ve really made me try to push myself to be all I can be. I can’t take credit for the Army slogan, but you get my point. What inspires you when you need a kick in the pants? Any [...]