You (and Your Dog) Can Lose Calories Together


Updated 01/22/07 9:17 AM · Posted by FitSugar · 9 comments

You (and Your Dog) Can Lose Calories Together

OK, so let's face it: Your dog needs to lose a few pounds and it won't hurt you to burn some extra calories too. With obesity on the rise in people and in dogs, one fun way for the both of you to burn calories is to take an hour to play with your dog. In 60 minutes of play time, you can burn about 173 calories*. Imagine all the calories your dog will burn happily running back and forth! Invest Read more

How Not to Destroy Your Marriage


Updated 05/18/12 12:53 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

How Not to Destroy Your Marriage

We're happy to present this story from one of our favorite sites, The Good Men Project. Today, Mark Tyrrell offers eight relationship tools to make your marriage work. "All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble." — Raymond Hull So how do you make your marriage work? Or do you just blindly hope it'll take care of itself? Think of a hot, successful Read more

This Is 40 Trailer: Getting Old Sucks For Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann


Updated 04/27/12 7:34 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

This Is 40 Trailer

Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd stole the show as Katherine Heigl's older sister and brother-in-law, Debbie and Pete, in 2007's Knocked Up, and now the characters are back in Judd Apatow's This Is 40. In the trailer, we catch up with the married couple a few years later, and instead of sniping at each other about their family, they're dealing with getting older. As they try to exercise more and be more Read more

Vincent Kartheiser Talks Pete Campbell and Says, "There's No Shotgunning of Any Beers on the Mad Men Set"


Updated 03/23/12 9:55 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Mad Men Season 5 Interview Vincent Kartheiser

Pete Campbell is one of Mad Men's most divisive characters, as he's schemed and smarmed his way through four seasons at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Ahead of the series' return this Sunday, we got a chance to chat with Vincent Kartheiser, the man behind Pete Campbell's suit and smirk. Check out what he had to say about Pete's evolution, his favorite costars to work with, and why being drunk on Read more

No Shame in Your Game: Embracing an Exercise Ball in Your Decor


Updated 02/24/12 10:04 AM · Posted by · 1 comment

How to Decorate With an Exercise Ball

For even the most casual of home-workout enthusiasts, an exercise ball is a fact of life — and of home decor. If you're going to regularly use one, you need to keep it inflated and in your living space. Stashing it in the garage or basement only discourages you from using it, but all too often these giant balls simply look inappropriate when paired with your decor. The good news is that even Read more

Glee-ful Highlights From Episode "On My Way"


Updated 02/27/12 5:57 PM · Posted by · 5 comments

Glee Recap "On My Way"

On this week's episode of Glee, things are taken to a whole new world of drama. I knew the Winter finale episode "On My Way" was going to be big, but I didn't really know what I was getting into. The New Directions head to Regionals to take on the Warblers, but the whole show choir thing feels a little trite as tragedy after tragedy takes place in the community. The episode feels a little (OK, Read more

The Best Time Investments You Can Make


Updated 12/07/11 12:20 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

The Best Time Investments You Can Make

We're thrilled to present this smart LearnVest story here on Savvy! We all agree that time is more valuable than money. At least, that’s what we say. Then we turn around and spend hours watching bad TV we’re not even that interested in. Or 45 minutes on the phone with customer service fighting a $5 charge. Or years in a relationship or friendship we stopped feeling fulfilled by long ago. But Read more

Healthy Dose Link Time: Get Happy With These Workouts


Updated 11/03/11 7:12 AM · Posted by FitSugar · 0 comments

Workouts That Will Make You Happy

Mood-boosting workouts to put a grin on your face — Real Simple Run with an edge: the best high-tech workout tops — Fitness Exercises that all runners should be doing — but probably aren't — Self Why moderately paced workouts may be better for us than we think — Daily Spark Skip the store: DIY raw vegan nut bars — Mind Body Green What your walk may be saying about your sex life — Read more

3 Warning Signs You Might Be Exercising Too Much


Updated 06/23/11 1:37 PM · Posted by · 2 comments

How Much Exercise Is Too Much?

We are pumped to share one of our fave stories from Self here on FitSugar! If you're anything like me, your workout waves come in (short) fits and starts. At least you're doing something — that's how I rationalize it. On the downside, that may mean that you get overzealous during exercise phases.  It's great to keep moving, but overshooting your fitness level — or even hitting the gym Read more

13 Signs You’re Too Busy


Updated 11/02/11 12:20 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

13 Signs You’re Too Busy

We're thrilled to present this smart LearnVest story here on Savvy! There’s busy. Then there’s too busy. Busy is running from one appointment to the next. Too busy is running over someone on your way to the next appointment (physically, vehicularly, whatever). Busy is leaving your cell phone behind at the grocery store. Too busy is leaving your kid behind at the grocery store. And then Read more