Terri M Roberts / Pink Dumbbell Problem

07/09/2024

If you know, you know!!

07/09/2024

Sorry for the ear worm!

04/09/2024

Terrible news from the sports world today.
Sadly runner Rebecca Cheptegei of Uganda has been injured and gymnast Kara Welsh of the USA has been killed - both by by jealous men in their lives (links below & in comment box).
Sport orgs (and governments) love to talk about how they reduce barriers for women to access sport & physical activity, but I have yet to hear one address the dangers women face from people who can't cope with their success.
RIP Kara.
Get well soon Rebecca - we're all pulling for you!

Rebecca Cheptegei, a distance runner who finished in 44th place at the 2024 Paris Olympics, was attacked in her home.

03/09/2024

Exactly!

03/09/2024

I was chatting with a fitness friend earlier today who was asking me if I remembered there was once an ad campaign for a nail polish that showed a woman's hand holding a dumbbell incorrectly.

Yes!! I do!

I mentioned it a while back in my wrist safety video. Couldn't find a photo of it, so if you're cleaning out a stash of old fashion magazines and happen to see it, send me a pic, eh!

wrist safety, plus some analysis on why women so often get it wrong, and where pop culture & social norms have lead us astray on this.Bicycle Face: https://w...

03/09/2024

13/08/2024

Beautiful!
And, a really great cardio workout :)

13/08/2024

Hey local , a new organization in Nova Scotia is launching!

Thank you to everyone who has expressed interest in what we're doing! Some of you want to share what we're doing, so here's the run-down!

*What is SNS?*
-Speakers Nova Scotia is a new, non-profit association for people who do some form of public speaking work.
- SNS is open to all people in Nova Scotia who work in this area, regardless of how much they make & how big their audiences are.
- Once we are set up we will be offering an online registry that showcases what our members have to offer. This will allow organizations to search for speakers, presenters, etc for their events or content creation needs. We have plenty of other member & public services we plan to offer as we grow!
- We are a membership based association.
- SNS is operated by a volunteer board. As we are in the early stages of setting up, we are looking for board and/or committee members!

07/08/2024

My IRL friends know how much of a complete & total Muppet fan I am - Kermie4EVER! - so it was an absolute pleasure to appear on my friend Sara's show, for a second time, to talk about the 2011 Muppet movie!

For the second nonFarscape episode Terri Roberts of The Pink Dumbbell Problem joins Sara to discuss The Muppets return to cinema in 2011. We talk nostalgia a...

02/08/2024

Hey folks!
Just a reminder as the back-to-school season is now open, there's a lesson planner for instructors available on Amazon!
Finally, fitness leaders get to have a *planner* just like other educators - as we should!
Click on my name below the book title for other colours & designs :)

Finally, a class planner for Fitness Instructors! There are plenty of lesson plan books on the market for teaching school and other programs where the students' are graded, but in fitness we don't need that, and there are other things we DO need. This class planner uses a 2-page lesson planning f...

27/07/2024

This year, 128 years after the 1st modern Olympics, there's finally equal numbers of women & men competing.
Last summer Olympics I talked about why the gender access gap in sport & physical literacy has been closing, slowly, over the last century+.

Bit of a long one this week, but worth it. Also stay to the end to hear about next week's vlog topic!The link to my 7 Fundamental Movements video: https://ww...

26/07/2024

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08/07/2024

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

04/07/2024

Yup.
Amy is one of my twitter mutuals. She does great stuff so follow here if you're on there!

02/07/2024

Like its 1999... 🥲🥲

27/06/2024

This is true! 👌

27/06/2024

When women stand up for themselves, it's seen as "b*tchy" or "loudmouthed" or "difficult" but every mahn I know with a daughter claims he's raising her to take no sh*t, and to be strong...so why dont they respect that trait in women on general principle?

20/06/2024

Getting my on for charity. Come by, check it out!

Join me and The Oddbody Players, a group of Youtuber and other creators, for a live reading of Shakespeare's Midsummers Nights Dream on the Summer Solstice.W...

19/06/2024

Join me & a whole cast of my fellow youtubers tomorrow night for a Midsummer night's fundraiser reading of A Midsummer Night's Dream!
7pm time. Say 'hi' in the chat if you drop by!

Join me and The Oddbody Players, a group of Youtuber and other creators, for a live reading of Shakespeare's Midsummers Nights Dream on the Summer Solstice.W...

19/06/2024

Spot on!

19/06/2024

Gotta "yes and" on this one for a bit.
Yes, and there's some definite subtext there too. Ppl realize the arts are a viable career path. As the meme says, the consume it ALL the time. So what they're really saying is that it's not a viable career path... for YOU. They believe people being paid in the arts are all performers (really, there's WAY more non performer jobs in the arts), and that performers who are good enough to get paid are outliers. They assume you are not one of those outliers - and in my experience it's 100% assumption based on snap judgment factors (appearance, age, where you're from etc), because they've never actually seen/heard your art. Meanwhile they're clapping on the 1s and 3s and thinking they know better.
Wrong on all counts. But you can't tell that to someone who 'knows' that this is the 'truth'.
The corollary to this is snarking at people who do any sort of art just for the fun of it because 'you'll never get a career out of it'. Like, nah hun, I know, that was never the point. The 'if I can't monetize it, why bother?' brigade really thinks they have a 'gotcha' with that one, eh. It's the same for crafters too. I get this a lot as a knitter. They really think I am passing up some sort of gold mine by not selling my knits, but have NO clue how much it costs in supplies and time. I'd have to charge $150 for a pair of socks just to pay myself minimum wage!
So yeah - consume art, do art, ignore the jealous snobs who say that it's not possible.

14/06/2024

Love this!
I am not a fan of the whole "disability doesn't define you" caption, or that idea in any context. But otherwise, this is a great post!
Javeno is an amazing trainer and has been able to bring SO much awareness to what fitness is and how we should be doing inclusion.

13/06/2024

Excellent explanation (and I don't just say that for any old explainer vid!) re calories!

12/06/2024

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