Peachy the Magazine January / February 2014 | Page 88

A True Olympian like its own country and even each 5 to 10 block neighborhood is like its own city. You start to see the same people and the neighborhood soon feels small and not so overwhelming. I met my husband on a blind date in New York City and once we married we moved to Park City. Moving frequently after college to pursue work opportunities taught me that I can live anywhere. This is something that I want my kids to understand. My husband and I make a point of showing our kids different places in the United States and around the world. In addition to being a wife and mother, will you describe the work you do as a TV commentator, fitness, health, parenting advocate and blogger? PM: I have always been curious about fitness, but a few years ago I had a wake-up call. A couple of years ago my husband asked me to help him move a cooler. I couldn’t do it. I was so weak. I was almost 40 and I wasn’t—overall— as fit as I wanted to be. This lead me to explore new ways of working out and soon my business partner and I started Find Your Fitness (a regular installment on the msn.com Healthy Living site) where I have tried new fitness trends. I tried and often failed. SS: What was the hardest activity you have tried? PM: With Find Your Fitness I have tried barre classes, spin classes, aerial yoga. The hardest thing I tried and failed at, but then grew to love, was stand-up paddleboard yoga. After living in Park City, paddleboarding back in California was amazing—fed my soul. Even when I fell, which was a lot, I loved it. I was also terrible at aerial yoga at Crunch in NYC. I can no longer stand flipping or spinning—too dizzy—I blame it on having children messing up my equilibr ium. SS: Summer, pictured here with her two children, representing Right to Play at Let’s Move! London in 2012. 86 PEACHY