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(Re)Thinking Walking: A Collaboration

Sports post by La Macha on January 26, 2009 - 5:18pm; tagged exercise, movement, relationship to exercise, walking, women of color.

My really good friend and fellow Chicana blogger, brownfemipower, is hosting a collaboration at her blog, Flip Flopping Joy, with fellow amazing media maker, Jess Hoffman (of make/shift fame).

Their collaboration is called (Re)Thinking Walking and centers ways that we can build new worlds through the process of purposeful walking.

Some excerpts:

BFP:

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The Wii Fit and Healthy Skeptism

Sports post by La Macha on December 23, 2008 - 2:05pm; tagged exercise, fat acceptance, gaming, health, wii fit.

One of the biggest gifts this year in the arena of 'sports/exercise' is the Wii Fit. It is billed as a game and an exercise space, only better, and it's virtually impossible to find. You can do everything from yoga to table balancing and apparently so many people are into it, a new affliction has been named for it (the Wii Knee:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/3854172/Doctors-fear-a-Wii-knee-epidemic.html).

Here is a clip of Wii Fit in its idealized form:

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