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GET CARRIED AWAY!
There’s nothing like a great new gym bag to recharge your motivation mojo.
The
se three totes make u s look forward to w
orking out. —C.G.
Remorse?
Got Trainer
One day you love the person putting
sessions later, not so much. Hey,
it happens. But when you start can-
you through your paces. Several
trainer, it’s time to move on. Here’s
how to call it quits, from Jodyne
T HE DOU BLE SH IF TER THE HAUL OF FAMER THE SPLURGE
celing your workouts to avoid your
Speyer, author of Dump ’Em.
By day, Kipling’s Emme Pack everything but Designed with compart-
tote is the belle of the the kitchen sink in ments for everything, Nike’s
SPELL IT OUT. A face-to-face break-
locker room. By night, it’s Columbia’s roomy Monica Standard Club bag
shimmery shoulder candy Classic Duffle bag is the Cadillac of carryalls
up is best. Simply say the trainer’s
($96, kipling-usa.com). ($70, columbia.com). ($160, nike.com).
style isn’t working for you and that
you want to try someone else. “This is
a professional relationship, and you
don’t owe more of an explanation,”
Unless you’re willing to go to a differ- A Movie
Speyer says.
LIE A LIT TLE. If you feel the need,
you can soften the firing with a fib.
That Matters
Two legit excuses: Your schedule has
Save the date! On March 5, CARE’s
A Powerful Noise—a documentary
changed, making it impossible for you
call to arms that follows three
to meet up anymore, or you want to
women fighting oppression in
go with a trainer of the opposite sex.
Bosnia, Mali and Vietnam—will
premiere on 440 screens nation-
CALL THE GYM MANAGER. She
wide. After the credits roll, for
wants you to be happy, so she’ll do the
this night only, a panel of experts
deed for you. But wimps, be warned:
and celebrities such as Christy
Turlington Burns will answer
ent location, you may just be post-
pre-submitted questions via a
live feed from New York City. Tickets are $15 (they went on sale January 30);
poning an awkward confrontation.
buy them and send in your questions to apowerfulnoise.org. —R.S.
—Sarah D’Angelo
FIT CAM
“I absolutely
“I can
What healthy
love mangoes.
“Soy milk. I
never get
I craved them
enough
food would
the entire
use it in every-
sushi.”
you buy
time I was
thing, from coffee
pregnant.”
to cereal to
—Ashley
Shreves, 30,
no matter
—Nyssa Kourakos,
smoothies.”
ER physician
the cost?
40, public-relations
—Megan Brackney,
executive
35, lawyer
—R.S.
BLEND IMAGES/ALAMY ( TRAINER). BRYAN MCCAY (GYM BAGS). NICK HIGGINS (FILM STILL). FIT CAM: JODY KIVOR T.
