All of Your Muscle Soreness Questions Answered!

We get a lot of questions here in FBG Land about muscle soreness: how to prevent it, what to do if you have it and if working out sore is okay. So when we got the opportunity to ask Robert Forster, physical therapist, author, member of the Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness, and trainer to 40 Olympic medalists [...]

My Love-Hate Relationship With Muscle Soreness

About four minutes into our Sh*t Fit Bottomed Girls Say video, we make a joke about being ridiculously sore. And it’s funny because it’s true. Wearing that exact same outfit, I have laid on my couch, completely flattened by the previous day’s workout, for hours. Or half a day. Or sometimes a full day. Which [...]

Healing From the Pound Pain

Yesterday, I told you all about my Pound workout—the new drumming fitness class sweeping gyms across the nation, but what I didn’t get a chance to tell you about was what happened in the days after the Pound workout. Those are worth a story, too! So here’s the deal: I’m tall and not that flexible. Combine [...]

My Secret Weapon for Overcoming CrossFit Soreness (And How You Can Win It!)

The following post is sponsored by ThermaCare. For our sponsored post policy, click here. If you’ve ever done any kind of intense exercise, you know one thing that usually is a byproduct of said activity: soreness. Like the kind where it takes a bit of time and a big ol’ groan to get out of bed. Or takes serious [...]

Soak It All In: Trying Dr. Teal’s Bath and Foot Soaks

I didn’t used to take a lot of baths. They always seemed too indulgent—just sitting there and getting pruney for 15 minutes or so. (Not to mention that I usually spend half the time thinking about how I really, really need to clean my tub more thoroughly.) But then the peeps at Dr. Teals sent [...]

Massage Plus Pain Relief: Oh Yeah.

I’m a little crazy (not that this is a surprise). See, I like soreness. Not the kind of soreness where you can’t walk or sit down without grunting in agony, but a little soreness here and there lets you know you did something new and that you pushed it. Problem is, sometimes when I work [...]

Muscles Sore? Follow These Tips!

Pain is a real, well, pain! How many times have you been gung-ho to start a new workout routine only to feel like you’ve been hit by a ton of bricks on day two? Something as simple as walking down the stairs can feel like torture. Most of us have “been there, done that” when [...]