Year: 2019

March 03, 2019 at 12:37PM by CWC One of the most common tropes Hollywood uses to show a relationship that has gone the distance—as in, multiple decades—is constant bickering. Think of all the elderly couples in movies, the neighbors down the hall who have been married for 50 years and shuffle down the sidewalk murmuring insults at each other (or: shouting, a la the Costanzas on Seinfeld). Then, inevitably, the leads of the movie offer up a “y’all so crazy” laugh in a way that tells you that they know this couple really loves each other deep down. But psychotherapist Esther Perel—whose insights on desire (hint: being a conscientious partner isn’t always a turn-on) and cult fave couples therapy podcast Where Should We Begin? has made her a star—believes that bickering is no laughing matter. Psychotherapist Esther Perel believes that bickering is no laughing matter. In fact, she calls it “low-intensity chronic warfare.” In fact, she calls it “low-intensity chronic warfare,” according to a recent Instagram video post. “Ongoing bickering and criticism can lead to the demise of a relationship. Here‘s one idea for shifting this dynamic,” she says. What’s so damaging about it? “Generally when you’re in critical mode your assumptions are negative. You do not assume that the other person had good intentions. You always are on the assumption that it was meant to be hurtful, meant to be dissing you, etc.,” she says. View this post on Instagram Bickering is low intensity chronic warfare. It’s this notion that every time one person

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March 03, 2019 at 04:07AM by CWC In this quick-hitting era of fitness—in which 10-minute micro-workouts are rising in popularity and even  five-minute workouts are legit—it’s no surprise that bajillions of people are drinking the HIIT Kool-aid. Including moi. But in the world of high-intensity interval training is a whole variety of sweaty options to choose from. You can do a HIIT running workout (a personal fave), HIIT weightlifting, or, hell, even daily HIIPA, or high-intensity incidental physical activity (which can involve your household vacuum). One of the most OG types of HIIT, though? Tabata. Although HIIT has been around for a long time, the whole tabata style developed out of it—kind of as its own branch—in the ’90s, according to CeCe Marizu, group fitness manager at Equinox. “Tabata is a form of HIIT, and is probably one of the more popular versions,” she says. “It has such a recognizable name that it’s been able to separate itself as a specific way of training HIIT.” The difference between the two comes down to their ratios of work to rest. The thing about HIIT is that it’s essentially a loose term in which you can make up your own interval lengths—there’s not a set ratio. “HIIT is a system of organizing cardiorespiratory training, which calls for repeated bouts of short duration, high-intensity exercise intervals intermingled with periods of lower-intensity intervals of active recovery,” explains Justin Thomas Sanchez, trainer at Exceed Physical Culture. “HIIT training calls for challenging work-rates such as sprints for

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