My rowing coach – a gifted oarsman and a lovely guy – told me I needed to strengthen my "core" to be a better rower. Then he gave me this amazingly simple workout, to help. The most interesgting thing, in...

Now that I am worried sick about my puny core – because I want to row better at the Head of the Charles in the fall – I decided to try Pilates (floor division). Quite a trip. We were...

I don’t play golf and tend to be a bit snotty about it as exercise. But here’s a lovely message from an old high school classmate who just came back from a two week golf trip to "Scotland, with...

Another slant on this sacred topic. I have to face my single sculling coach on the Salisbury Lake at 7 am tomorrow. Ugh. So tonight – after a 200 mile fool’s errand, driving half way to NH and back,...

I had a major "hire-a-trainer" moment yesterday. I was at the enormous and elegant All Sport health club in Poughkeepsie N.Y. and had the good luck to have a weight session with the owner, Mike Arteaga. Mike is deep...

So I got this trainer, right? And he suggested I was a little puny around the CORE…gave me some exercises to do. And YIKES was he right. I stumble and moan and fail at the simplest of his exercises....