Fun and Fitness for the 40-Something

I wasn’t allowed to wear sandals when I was growing up, let alone flip-flops, but I remember my older sisters sporting the wooden Dr. Scholl’s. I’ve never forgotten the claim that they were good for your legs.

It turns out, though, that flip-flops and their ilk may actually cause or exacerbate leg pain.

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I came across this article about the nine most obnoxious habits of gym members, as reported by gym managers.

Here’s my favorite:

“A manager at a New York Sports Club was walking through the women’s locker room a few years ago when she smelled cheese. Puzzled, she opened the door to the sauna, where a woman had placed bread and cheese on the hot rocks to make a postworkout grilled cheese sandwich. ‘Not only was it a health code violation, it was not really respectful to the other people in the sauna,’ says NYSC PR director Linda Hufcut. ‘She said, “I do this all the time.” That was, obviously, the last time she ever did it.’”

My gym doesn’t have a sauna, but I’m intrigued. Specifically, I can’t help wondering if that would work with bacon. Now that would be motivating.