When I lived in NYC I often spent time with the Health editor at Marie Claire and she would tell me glamorous stories of a particular job that I would give up cuddle time with the sharp clawed Gato for.... I want to be the gal who gets to test stuff!!! The girl at Marie Claire got to test out sports equipment and rate it and now I am reading about a girl from Shape magazine that was in charge of testing out different sports activities/ trainings/ classes etc. In this edition of Shape she is trying Parkour, the crazy jump off of buildings martial art that looks more like a stunt devil workshop then Tai Kwon Do.
Anyway, since Marty left Marie Claire and I live in a boring suburb instead of the amazing NYC, I guess my chances of being the "tester" for a magazine are probably not going to happen. Therefore I am going to try to be a tester for Roseville's sporting options. I am going to try to do demo classes at a bunch of different places and I will get back to you and post how they went. I will post about both gym classes and private studios, as well as outdoor activities as well as workout DVDs. If you would like me to test something for you in advance, please let me know and I will do my best.
The only rules I have are:
1. It must be free. Im a stay at home mom so the dough is not exactly flowing.
2. I must have child care. I would be willing to pay for child care, just as long as she is safe somewhere so that Im not focused on her.
3. Im not jumping off a cliff into water, this is stupid, not to mention so not a sport.
So if you are interested let me know what you would like me to try and I will try it. I will try to send out some feelers to see who offers free demo classes. I will also try to re-try and evaluate things I have already done so that you can read about them too. Lastly, I will try to figure out some sort of scoring system to rate each activity. If this works Ill try to do something similar with recipes as well. Here we go!!!
I too am very anti-jumping-off-a-cliff-into-water. Definitely dumb.
ReplyDeleteYour equipment/activity testing idea is great! I also think you should write an article about your other activity that I forgot the name of, the one where you assist people in runs. Write an article and try to get it published, maybe the newspaper or a magazine. I can see it now, my sis the freelance fitness writer!