http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/ en-us sbryan@mainetoday.com 2009-06-24T08:41:56-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/041045.html And here I thought Svaroopa yoga or Reiki would top the list "novel and eye-opening experiences" during Quest. And they're up there, to be sure. I can't say as I would have ever experienced most of what I have were... 41045@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/ Week 10 2009-06-24T08:41:56-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/041020.html The 10-week quest is dang near its end - only a week and a half to go. When the program began in April, I suspected that by the time June rolled around, I'd find myself collapsed in sweat on The... 41020@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/ Week 9 2009-06-11T07:39:54-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/041002.html It's been eight weeks that I've been wearing the BodyBugg. The small electronic contraption was first strapped to my arm over two months ago (when the picture to the right was taken. According to the pastiness of my upper body,... 41002@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/ Week 8 2009-06-04T15:11:38-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/040980.html One weight, two weight, Red weight, blue weight. Look at those brightly colored tools of the fit-person's trade. They're Suess-ish. Almost like toddler toys. But kettlebells are not toddler toys. They're implements of hurt. Their bright colors are a distraction... 40980@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/ Week 7 2009-05-28T07:30:49-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/040957.html This bad eater's slippery slope started with a Harbormaster. And it ended with the ceremonious dumping of Sixlets, Flying Saucers and candy cigarettes into the household garbage. See, I've fallen off the wellness wagon. In a hard way. If my... 40957@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/ Week 6 2009-05-19T13:22:43-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/040937.html It's funny how laziness works. Nine times out of 10, I'd choose an hour of one-on-one time with the sofa over 60 minutes of heavy exercise. I'll wait patiently for the elevator rather than take the stairs (Besides, I think... 40937@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/ Week 5 2009-05-14T06:12:51-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/040904.html Zach Labbay tried to kill me. The trickiest of fellows, he was even able to make the attempt appear self-inflicted. I do accept some responsibility. After completing a fairly intense personal training session with Catherine and the other Questers on... 40904@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/ Week 4 2009-05-05T08:17:45-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/040877.html Three weeks have passed now - and I feel like I'm running in place. Maybe that's because I spend a good deal of time on a treadmill at the gym and sometimes, when you step off too fast it feels... 40877@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/ Week 3 2009-05-01T10:04:55-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/040856.html I'm a cynic when it comes to less-tangible methods of "wellness." Give me a sweat-inducing session on the rowing machine any day - I can feel that. I won't be able to lift my arms above my shoulders for two... 40856@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/ Reiki 2009-04-29T07:59:54-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/040820.html Boy am I glad I didn't fake my own abduction and bolt north to yonder Canadian foothills this morning. Not that it isn't a swell idea. But if I'd spent the a.m. manufacturing a crime scene I would have missed... 40820@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/ Week 2 2009-04-24T13:59:12-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/040804.html It was cosmic, really, how this whole Quest thing came together. I'd no sooner stood up determinedly at my office desk and declared "That's it. Sloth is out. I'm heading to the gym to renew my membership," when my colleague... 40804@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/ Week 2 2009-04-22T22:03:09-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/040783.html It's true that no good deed goes unpunished. And despite my good deeds of the week (strange activities with names like "hip funk abs" and "Gyrokinesis") my body has responded in a less-than-grateful nature. In fact, my body is altogether... 40783@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/ Week 1 2009-04-21T14:38:09-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/040660.html We've all heard of buyer's remorse. That unexpected panic that descends just after you've signed on the dotted line. That overwhelming sense of COMMITMENT - of wondering whether you can really handle what your signature said you could. I had... 40660@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/ Week 1 2009-04-13T10:06:02-05:00 http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/040435.html Remember when you were in high school and you threw that raucous shindig when your parents skipped town for the weekend? It was a grand time, to be sure, until you surveyed the damage the morning after. The lawn muddied... 40435@http://www.mainetoday.com/blogs/quest/ 2009-03-24T07:36:09-05:00