(BlackFitness101.com) Most of us remember jumping jacks from somewhere. School gym, summer camp, football practice, basketball warmups, maybe even a coach in the neighborhood counting loud with a whistle hanging from his neck. Nobody gave a long speech about the move back then. You just opened the feet, raised the ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Let me speak plain to the brothers who have passed fifty, or who are close enough to feel it coming. There comes a morning when the body starts telling on you. Maybe the shoulder does not turn the way it used to. Maybe the knees make noise before you ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Summertime down South will humble a whole household before breakfast if you let it. That heat does not ease in polite. It shows up early, sits heavy on the porch, and makes a person start bargaining with themselves about everything they said they were going to do. That is ...
(BlackFitness101.com) I have seen a man sit on the edge of the couch and say he was too tired to exercise, then turn around and move for twenty minutes because the right song came on. That is the thing about music. It can sneak past the part of the mind ...
(BlackFitness101.com) When I was little, older folks used to talk about pressure like it was almost expected once you reached a certain age. Somebody always had medicine sitting near the kitchen sink. Somebody auntie stayed talking about doctor appointments after church. Back then I never paid attention to any of ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Soon as summertime show up, people start wanting to get outside again. You can feel the difference in the neighborhood. Folks grilling. Music playing somewhere down the block. Children running around while grown folks sit outside trying to catch a little evening breeze before dark. After being stuck inside ...
(BlackFitness101) Every summer the same tired jokes start floating around again. Somebody sees Black folks near a pool or beach and suddenly the old stereotype about Black people not swimming comes right back out. A lot of people laugh it off, but truthfully, that stereotype ignored generations of history, exclusion, ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Some evenings down here in the South just feel different once summertime settles in. Folks stop hiding in the house once the heat finally eases up a little. You hear somebody cutting grass late. Music floating through the neighborhood. Older people sitting outside talking while kids run around trying ...
(BlackFitness101.com) I have been around long enough to see how habits move between people without them even noticing it. You can walk into a home, open the fridge, and tell what kind of patterns are being passed back and forth. It is not always loud. It is quiet. It shows ...
(BlackFitness101.com) I have been in this game long enough to see patterns that never lie. You can watch a couple walk into a gym and tell within a few minutes what kind of connection they have. Some move like strangers who just happen to share a ride. Others move like ...