2012 | Dori's Shiny Blog

This is a really big week for me for a number of reasons — my birthday is Wednesday, my one-year anniversary with Andy is Friday and I have tickets to see The Hunger Games on Saturday.

But one huge reason this is such an important week for me is because I get to tell you all about a huge project I’ve been working on for months at my job — Your Beauty Advisor (yba).

Yba consists of four websites covering beauty and wellness geared toward women 30+. To officially announce our launch, we are holding giveaways for the next two months — and the very first one is my baby, our wellness site, Fit-a-licious.

We are giving away $400 worth of prizes, including a one-year membership to YogaVibes online streaming classes (they have well-known, incredible instructors), four workout DVDs (including Bethenny’s Skinnygirl Workout, which I’m really curious to try) an Aurorae yoga mat, supplements and a really cute Puma gym bag.

You can enter the Fit-a-licious giveaway here and it runs through April 1. After that, each of our other sites will have a two-week giveaway for skincare products, makeup products and hair products.

Fit-a-licious giveaway

I hope you like the yba websites! You might recognize some of our writers’ names because they are active in the health/fitness/running blog community and thanks to the powers of the Twitters, they now write for us!

And I hope you’ll follow yba on Twitter and Like us on Facebook!

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One of my newer favorite sites, RateYourBurn, interviewed me as part of their “Classhole” series. Yes, that word struck me asÂ strange and slightly off-putting when I first saw it, but it actually fits in really well with RateYourBurn’s direct, witty, borderline irreverent tone.

If you’re ever looking for a New York City or Boston fitness class review, this site not only reviews tons of classes at countless gyms and studios, they review each instructor as well. The reviews are brutally honest — not just about the class but the instructor’s personality and teaching style as well. That means this is a fantastic resource when looking for classes.

Not only do I enjoy reading reviews of classes and instructors I’ve taken, I also use the site when I’m contemplating trying something new. Just last week I read their review of Grant at FlyWheel to be sure I wanted to take his 6 am spin class. And I did. And it was awesome.

When RateYourBurn loves a class, they really LOVE the class — which makes me want to get myself there as soon as humanly possible. And even though I don’t always agree with their reviews, the fact that they make me want to drop what I’m doing and try a new class means they’re doing something very right.

Anyway, I feel really honored they asked to interview me — especially since their two prior interviews are people I adore, Bianca of MizzFit and Missy of MissyMaintains.

Enjoy!

CLASSHOLE SERIES: INTERVIEW WITH DORI MANELA OF DORISHINYBLOG.COM

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2012 archive

Fit-a-licious Launch Giveaway

My “Classhole Series” Interview on RateYourBurn!