Wellfellows: How Perez Hilton, Media Entrepreneur and Dad, Stays Healthy
Perez Hilton is not the husky celebrity gossip blogger you knew ten years ago. In 2008, Perez made a commitment to his health and started shedding pounds. A few years…
Our Top 5 Gym Pet Peeves
Our local gyms are melting pots of experience levels, backgrounds, and fitness goals. We’re all there sweating for different reasons. If only we could unite against five all-too-common offenses. For…
Wellfellow Meetup #3 – Gay Men’s Yoga
On our third Meetup event, we ventured to Stanton Street Yoga in the Lower East Side for an hour of gay men’s yoga. Vinyasa yoga is the perfect Sunday afternoon…
Becoming a Personal Trainer Part 5 – Nutrition for the Healthy Gay Man
If I had to point to one aspect of my fitness journey that I’m not happy with, it’s my diet. All my life, I’ve been a big eater. No, seriously.…
How Weight Training Impacted My Inner-Strength
There’s a principle in physical training called Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands. It essentially means that the type of exercise you do determines your physique. This is easily illustrated by…
Why I Ride: I’m Biking from San Francisco to LA for AIDS/LifeCycle
If you’re a gay person in San Francisco or Los Angeles, chances are you’ve heard of or participated in the AIDS/LifeCycle. Otherwise, this annual event tends to fly under the…
Becoming a Personal Trainer Part 4 – Designing Balanced Workouts
Have you ever had one of those moments when you suddenly decide you want to dedicate all your workouts to a certain muscle group? In my case, such bursts of…
Meetup by Wellfellow in NYC
Last weekend, a group of fellows gathered at Prospect Park to kick off our first ever Meetup by Wellfellow. The goal of the group is to host wellness and fitness gatherings for…
Becoming a Personal Trainer Part 3 – Balance
I was feeling pretty confident after completing the first two modules of my Personal Training course. The material was straightforward. I could understand the concepts, complete each module in about 2 hours,…
