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How Climbing Steps Can Help You Get in Shape Quickly
By Assia Mortensen Stair climbing is easy to integrate into your home or work routine. If you’re using stair climbing as an aerobic exercise, be sure to keep at it for at least 15 minutes. Fifteen minutes of climbing stairs … Continue reading
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January Healthy Weight Week: Kick-Start Your Workout At Home
January 20 through 26 is “Healthy Weight Week,” when everyone is encouraged to focus on making healthy choices that are right for them and their body type. The key to maintaining a healthy weight is to make long-term changes to … Continue reading
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What’s the Best Time to Exercise?
Exercise physiologists have found some differences between athletic performance in the morning and later in the day. Many of these differences are attributed to the body’s circadian rhythms—24-hour cycles that control physical and behavioral factors such as sleep, mood, metabolism, … Continue reading
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Kickboxing Your Way to Fitness
I’ve spent the past hour weaving, jabbing, punching, and kicking. I’m drenched in sweat, my hair is plastered to my forehead, and my cheeks are flushed. No, I haven’t just wrestled the remote from my boyfriend, I’ve just finished a … Continue reading
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Introduction to Indoor Rock Climbing
Lauren Kaiser remembers the first time she tried to scale the 30-foot-high textured gray face that is Connecticut College’s indoor climbing wall. Kaiser, a senior with a background in gymnastics, quickly found a route amid the yellow, orange, green, and … Continue reading
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Water Exercises Does the Body Good
If you think of swimming only as a leisure activity that older women do to relieve arthritis pain, then you may be the one who is sorely mistaken. Water training has become a legitimate form of cross training for many … Continue reading
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Bike Safety Tips
Biking is a great way to explore the trails or a long country road and get some exercise at the same time. It is also an easy way to get around town or commute to work. But before you’re out … Continue reading
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Pilates: A Low-Impact Mind-Body Challenge that Improves Athletic Performance
Treadmills, stair steppers, elliptical trainers… They leave you sweating and give your heart a great workout, but if you want to reshape your body, you’re going to have to work out a little smarter. Let’s face it: sometimes we all … Continue reading
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Getting Started and Staying on the Right Fitness Track
Getting Started Exercise’s rewards have been extensively documented. Exercise is a key factor in preventing and treating conditons such as high blood pressure and has also been shown to help counter many health problems, including heart disease, depression, diabetes, osteoporosis, … Continue reading
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Walking Your Way to Fitness
It’s easy, inexpensive, amazingly good for you, and has few undesirable side effects. Yet it’s all too often overlooked when people consider which form of exercise is best for them. It is walking, and the evidence continues to mount that … Continue reading
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