Charlotte Andersen
Charlotte Hilton Andersen is the author of the book The Great Fitness Experiment: One Year of Trying Everything which has been featured in Shape, Fitness, Prevention, and Women's Health UK among others. (The sequel is coming out summer 2012!) She runs the popular health and fitness website of the same name, where she tries out a new workout every month, specializing in exercise, body image and oversharing. She was named one of Demand Media's top 3 bloggers for 2010, one of Fitness magazine's favorite fitness bloggers and a fitness expert by Experience Life Magazine's A Revolutionary Act. In addition to writing for Shape she also writer for The Huffington Post, Redbook magazine, iVillage, Men's Fitness, and BlogHer on a regular basis. In addition she has been featured on ABC's 20/20 and Fox's morning show and interviewed on Fox, NBC and many radio stations. A former professor, her night job is grading the SAT essay where she gets to grade 500 high school essays each answering the same prompt, causing her to remove all sharp pencils from the room lest she poke her eyes out rather than read one more . She is a mom of 5 currently going crazy in Minnesota.
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Monday, 7/16/12 at 12:45 PM
A 275-pound deadlift, 48 pull-ups, back squatting twice her weight. CrossFit competitor and WOD Gear Team Clothing Co. athlete Valerie Calhoun is known for putting up some pretty impressive numbers,...
Wednesday, 7/11/12 at 2:53 PM
Sometimes being “bad” is actually better for your health.
Thursday, 7/5/12 at 4:44 PM
Need motivation? It may be time to drink the Kool-Aid and try one of these.
Friday, 6/29/12 at 5:23 PM
Scarier than what goes bump in the night or severe weather outside your window, the new nighttime terror is... junk food! And you're not the only one being haunted by the Ghost of Late-Night Munchies...
Wednesday, 6/27/12 at 4:31 PM
As I lay half naked under a mechanical octopus with lasers crisscrossing my lower body, all I could think was this is not what I expected! When I first signed up to try the Zerona, the only laser fat...
Wednesday, 6/27/12 at 3:00 PM
"I'll go to the gym tomorrow." Sound familiar? Learn to outwit weight-loss obstacles.
Wednesday, 6/27/12 at 12:16 PM
Sculpt a lean, athletic body with this pro fighter's training plan.
Saturday, 6/23/12 at 5:17 PM
Don't let a tiny mistake stand between you and the body you want.
Thursday, 6/21/12 at 1:26 PM
Giant grins to taut tummies: watching NFL cheerleaders on TV, it's easy to think they're naturally that svelte and perky. But as I learned when I got to be a Minnesota Vikings cheerleader (for two...
Thursday, 6/21/12 at 1:25 PM
Try this plan from the Minnesota Vikings cheerleaders. We dare you!
