curls for the girls with sonia in the new sept/oct 2010 ish of muscle & fitness hers ... ... photo by muscle & fitness hers facebook

muscle & fitness hers gets reigning fitness olympia champ adela garcia to do her first crossfit workout ... the magazine feature on adela & valley crossfit came out awhile back, but i just now saw this video and thought you might wanna see it too ... the vid's right here, y'all! ... photo by muscle & fitness hers

people around the world ain't talked this much about heavyweights since howard cosell talked this much about heavyweights ... way back in time, like, in the '70s when frazier & ali & foreman & norton were rumblin' in jungles & thrillin' in manila & all that pugilist stuff. okay ... maybe i'm exaggerating. the '90s had some great heavyweight boxing matchups too ... but i've never seen this much heavyweight buzz on facetwittertube in either boxing or ultimate fighting (and, yes, i realize facetwittertube hasn't been around that long, people). first off, we had the man dana white's priceless twitter smile, which was a tweet worth a thousand words (or perhaps 70-plus) ... everybody's main man elie seckbach & his youtube videos aptly captured the emotion of saturday's strikeforce stunner (see below) ... and shane carwin's woman--mrs. lani alexander-carwin (happy anniversary to you two!!)--probably summed up the respect best on her facebook page: "Fedor is amazing. And if the best in this sport doesn't have a spotless record, it's impossible. That's one of the things that makes this sport so exciting. Fedor is an amazing athlete and appears to be quite an incredible and honorable man. The Carwins still think he is ...

well, lookie here ... as i was walking the aisles of a barnes & noble bookstore sunday, i bumped into none other than kathleen tesori on the cover of the latest muscle & fitness hers magazine (july/august 2010) ... that's right. our own amiga from the beach house. ain't she awesome! so ... next time you're in a bookstore, make sure you too say hi to kathleen, k?

actually, i should title this "recovered", since i forgot to post this "covered" item a month or two ago (i thought i had) when our amiga amanda latona grabbed the may/june 2010 cover of muscle & fitness hers ... she is ABSolutely amazing ... and if you click this video link--or just look at this friggin' picture here--you'll know why i capitalized the ABS.

i know this is not ebay, but this is monique minton, after all ... brazilian jiu-jitsu & a believer! that makes her a collectors' item ... anyone? mint condition mar/apr 2009 m&f? anyone? bueller???

when ryan murakoshi, one of the best fitness trainers on planet earth, has a new blog, i find it my civic duty to point it out to y'all. it's @ CenCalSC.com ... check-it-check-it-out, y'all!!!