Kimberly Garrison

Kimberly Garrison is one of the nation's most sought-after fitness experts. She has more than 20 years' expertise in the health and fitness industry and is the owner of 1-on-1 Ultimate Fitness. She is a Certified Personal Trainer, a fitness columnist, a spokesmodel, and motivational speaker. She pens a weekly column for the Philadelphia Daily News, blogs the Girlfriends' Locker Room, and hosts the Philly Fitness & Health podcast. Kimberly can also be seen regularly on various television programs.

Email Kimberly at kimberly@1on1ultimatefitness.com

Kimberly Garrison: Shake up your exercise routine with Nia Technique

Posted 11/19/2009

IS IT TIME for you to shake up your old fitness routine? To step away from your step class? End that boring treadmill trip to nowhere? Do you need some new motivation to get moving? Do you need to get your groove back?

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Kimberly Garrison: What we should do in the wake of the death of Andre Steed - 11/05/2009: I'M ALL for biking! I think it's wonderful that Mayor Nutter supports the greening of our city and is encouraging more folks to bike instead of drive.
Kimberly Garrison: Are black women choosing 'good hair' over good health? - 10/29/2009: CHRIS ROCK'S controversial documentary, "Good Hair," about black women's love/hate relationship with their hair, spoke volumes to me. Like "The Hair Piece" sketch in George C. Wolfe's satirical 1986 play, "The Colored Museum," the movie is funny but sadly tragic, too.
Kimberly Garrison: 6 weight-control tips for surviving the holidays - 10/22/2009: 'TIS THE SEASON - the holiday weight-gain season. That's right, next week is the official kickoff, and I'm not talking about football.
Kimberly Garrison: Forget a cure for cancer - go for prevention - 10/08/2009: OCTOBER IS National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, designed to raise awareness about the most common cancer among women in the United States.
Kimberly Garrison: Sizing up Mo'Nique - 09/29/2009: MO'NIQUE HAS NEVER been one to do things small. The Baltimore-born comedian built her stage persona around her ample size and diva-esque demeanor. She wrote a book and called it "Skinny Girls Are Evil: Notes of a Big Girl in a Small-Minded World." But she's also made big statements in other ways.
Kimberly Garrison: 'Big-boned' is no excuse for nutritional neglect - 09/24/2009: WHEN I WAS a little girl, my grandmother always described herself as "big-boned." She was a proud, robust woman with a positive self-image, a heart of gold, street smarts and a savvy sense of fashion, too. When Anna McIntyre stepped out, she knew she was looking good.
Kimberly Garrison: Readers weigh in on link between obesity & jobs - 09/17/2009: LAST WEEK'S column on the complications of landing a job when you're obese really struck a nerve. There was such a huge response, we decided to share some readers' comments:
Kimberly Garrison: Many employers won't hire the obese, but are their reasons valid? - 09/10/2009: IF YOU'VE been keeping up with the latest headlines, you know the unemployment rate has climbed to a 25-year high of 9.7 percent, which means that 14.9 million Americans are out of work.
Kimberly Garrison: As school resumes, board the nutrition bus - 09/03/2009: THE NEW school year is upon us and instead of worrying about their children's clothes and sneakers, parents should be thinking about their kids' exercise and nutrition habits.
Kimberly Garrison | Affairs of the heart: Women's health is in their hands - 02/01/2007: Daily News Staff

WHILE FEBRUARY is the shortest month of the year, it is not short on celebrations: Valentine's Day, Black History Month, Presidents Day, Groundhog Day and, since 2004, "Go Red for Women Day."