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Guilt: it’s not just for mothers anymore

[By Merry]Photo courtesy of flickrI have a cold.Earth-shattering news, right? Okay, maybe not, but the reason behind the cold is interesting.I got a cold because I went to a family reunion and there encountered a teenage relation who insisted on giving…

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I Am Woman Watch Me Spin

For various reasons I’m going to start exercising August 16th. Someday I’ll go into why that date but for now just know on August 16th I will begin working out again after a long exercise draught.
One of the items on my exercise menu is a spinning class. It appears that if you want to burn calories spinning or [...]

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I went mountain biking today!

When I got home from work tonight I decided to do something I haven’t done for quite a long time. I decided to go for a ride on my mountain bike.
Once I got on all my riding gear (special pants with cushy rear, bike shoes, helmet), I went to grab my bike. I then [...]

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The Top Five Ways To Hurt Yourself at the Gym

While most of us don’t go into a workout with the hopes of ending up injured, it can happen. Workout related injuries are very common, especially if you are doing it on your own, without the benefit of an instructor or trainer. However, you can minimize your chances for injury by learning what not to [...]

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The End of Days and Cake - Guest Post

Help Wanted:I needed a guest writer while Greta vacations. Will Stegemann came to my rescue. He writes the witty blog BeTheBoy. He offered me this slice of cake and the apocalypse. For the first time ever cake with no calories. Thank you Be The Boy.. you The MAN!
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How about a Walk?

In the past I was always under the impression that not eating resulted in lower body fat…..WRONG! I did not understand the importance of food as a fuel source. I did not understand what my body was telling me and so on. I wouldn’t eat for a day, I tried different diets…low carb etc. [...]

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How to Stay Fit When on the Road

This is a guest post from Lazy Man. He writes about fitness at Lazy Man and Health and writes about money at Lazy Man and Money.

If you’re working on strength training, traveling can be a bit hard, particularly if you are not able to find a gym or your hotel does not offer any lifting [...]

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The Exercise Pill

I think it was Ian who first pointed me to this article in The New York Times about the development of an exercise pill, although the conversation seems to have exploded everywhere. Let’s hop on that bandwagon! First, from the NYT article:
Aicar signals to the cell that it has burned off energy and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “The Exercise Pill”, url: “http://www.bfdblog.com/2008/08/04/the-exercise-pill/” });

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How to Protect Your Ankles While Jogging

Jogging injuries are very common and can strike everyone from beginners to seasoned pros. One area of the body that is frequently injured during jogging are ankles. Few of us think about our ankles until we’re hobbling around, incapacitated due to a strain, sprain or crack. You rely on your ankles every day and you [...]

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How to Pick the Right Gym

Selecting a gym can be confusing. These tips for choosing a gym will help you.
If you’re ready to get in shape, one of the easiest ways is to go down to the local gym and sign up for some classes. If you live in a bigger city where there a lot of different gyms, [...]

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Exercise in a Pill: Would You Take It?

[By Crabby]A while back, I wrote a completely theoretical post over at Diet Blog about the development of an Exercise Pill. And now, guess what? It looks like scientists are getting closer to developing a real exercise pill that provides many of the s…

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Health and Wellness Benefits of Yoga

Yoga books tell us that Yoga, as we all know, is aimed to unite the mind, the body, and the spirit. Yogis view that the mind and the body are one, and that if it is given the right tools and taken to the right environment, it can find harmony and heal itself. Yoga therefore is considered…

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Roundup: First Sunday of August

For weekend reading from the Fitness Health Network this week checkout these posts:

How do you know if you’re properly hydrated? Journal of Healthy Living posts for Proper Hydration: Clear Urine Is Best.
Fat Man Unleashed asks Why Are We Fatter Than the Animals at the Zoo?
A Little Help - Best Way To Cook Chicken by NCN [...]

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Strong Lifts 5X5 Update

Well, I’ve completed both workout A and workout B one time. Tomorrow morning I’ll finish week 1 up with another workout A. I haven’t really concentrated very much on the amount of weight I’m lifting so far. I’m just trying to work out the kinks in my form so that I know [...]

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Copenhageners Ride Bikes To Work

Yesterday, I posted a detailed list on how to ride your bike to work. Today, I found this excellent video about just that subject:

Each and every day 550,000 thousand Copenhageners ride their bike to work or school. Here are some of them.

This video is brought to us by this weblog:

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Free 90-Day Gym Membership

I’ve got in my hot little hand a  24-Hour Fitness gift card to give away, and it would allow free access to participating gyms.  Not too shabby, I must say!
To be more specific, the free gym access comes in the form of one $99 gift card that gives you 90 days of fitness at participating [...]

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Lazy Linkage

(Photo by Crowbert)So here are a few Random Links for your weekend reading pleasure. (See, longtime readers, how I’m not making a big production out of this? Just a few miscellaneous items I wanted to mention. Not a return to full-on Random Friday N…

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Lazy Linkage

(Photo by Crowbert)So here are a few Random Links for your weekend reading pleasure. (See, longtime readers, how I’m not making a big production out of this? Just a few miscellaneous items I wanted to mention. Not a return to full-on Random Friday N…

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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 5, Day 1

Week 5 looks tough!
Well last night was day one of week 5 in my 100 pushup challenge.   How did it go?
FAIL!
Ok, it wasn’t all that bad.  It was a pretty tough week and I wasn’t sure I’d even be able to make it through the first 2 or 3 sets.  After day one it gets [...]

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How To Ride Your Bike To Work

Back in 2005, I happened to work at a place that was close enough to my home that I could ride my bike to work. I learned a lot from that experience and I thought I had shared it here, but it looks like I never wrote that entry. Now that gasoline is SO expensive, [...]

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Exercise in a PILL? What do you think about that?

Could a pill replace exercise?
Pill turns mice into chariots of fire
Exercise pill is better than a workout

This article says, “The drug works by by tapping into the molecular pathways that normally reprogram muscle in response to exercise. ”

Would you take it? Would you trust it? Should…

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J.D. Goes to Physical Therapy

About ten days ago, I had a rather depressing marathon training run. I had intended to run sixteen miles, but I could only make it three before pain in my knee forced me to quit. I then walked three miles back to the car — in physical and mental agony the entire way. This chronic [...]

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How to Lose Weight Over the Long Term

When you first start a diet, it’s easy to get all excited about the amount of weight you’re losing and how great you look. Unfortunately, most of us reach our goals and then go off of our diets. Within a few months, we may be back where we started, or in many cases, worse off. [...]

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Which Burns More Calories: Mopping or Slipper Genie?

I saw these slippers on Amazon.com called Slipper Genie. You’re supposed to use them to mop the floor. They are said to
make mopping easy. They actually look kind of cool.

This video describes them and lets you see them in detail:

The question that I have is: if they are supposed to make mopping easier, does that [...]

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Pushups are not happening this week apparently

Well, I was planning on doing week 5 of the 100 pushups challenge this week, but every day something just seems to come up and get in the way.  Yesterday we didn’t get home from a gathering at a friend’s house until late, and I was too tired to do any pushups.  Tonight I had [...]

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One Minute Challenge

Today is hectic, you have minimal time for exercise? Can you commit a minute every couple of hours to get the juices flowing?

Workout Mommy offers a challenge in:”It’s just one minute….”
“You have one minute for each. Your challenge? How many can you do?”
PUSH UPS- “How to do properly”

SQUATS- “How to do properly”

JUMPING JACKS- “How [...]

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The Myth of Moderate Exercise

30 minutes a day, right? Well, according to researcher John Jakicic at the University of Pittsburgh, it’s more like 55 minutes a day if you want to lose weight. In his paper from the July 28th issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, Dr. Jakicic “suggests that obese people would have to exercise at [...]

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But I Don’t Wanna Write It Down!

[By Crabby]Do You Keep a Food and/or Exercise Journal?Two studies announced in the last few weeks have confirmed what most of us know already: if you want to lose weight or make yourself exercise regularly, there’s almost nothing more powerful you c…

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Personal: Fitness as part of my business plan

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Czech Sokol Organization

This photo from The Library of Congress attracted me. Here are a group of girls from Chicago, competing in Sokol Sports in Austria.

Chicago girls at Sokol Sports, Prague, Austria by The Library of Congress from Flickr

What are these Sokol sports? This website lent me a little information about them:

Czech Sokol Organization

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Want to fight fatigue?

The journey continues with day 2 of Tweightloss , team Twit Fit is ambitious and actively pursuing results!
The biggest challenge for many of us is getting started, where do I start, how, what?
I read a fantastic article at WebMD that provides a wealth of information that would be beneficial to anybody that wants to become [...]

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Want to fight fatigue?

The journey continues with day 2 of Tweightloss , team Twit Fit is ambitious and actively pursuing results!
The biggest challenge for many of us is getting started, where do I start, how, what?
I read a fantastic article at WebMD that provides a wealth of information that would be beneficial to anybody that wants to become [...]

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Want to fight fatigue?

The journey continues with day 2 of Tweightloss , team Twit Fit is ambitious and actively pursuing results!
The biggest challenge for many of us is getting started, where do I start, how, what?
I read a fantastic article at WebMD that provides a wealth of information that would be beneficial to anybody that wants to become [...]

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Want to fight fatigue?

The journey continues with day 2 of Tweightloss , team Twit Fit is ambitious and actively pursuing results!
The biggest challenge for many of us is getting started, where do I start, how, what?
I read a fantastic article at WebMD that provides a wealth of information that would be beneficial to anybody that wants to become [...]

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Want to fight fatigue?

The journey continues with day 2 of Tweightloss , team Twit Fit is ambitious and actively pursuing results!
The biggest challenge for many of us is getting started, where do I start, how, what?
I read a fantastic article at WebMD that provides a wealth of information that would be beneficial to anybody that wants to become [...]

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New Workout For Mac

Ever since Megan’s school got out for the summer, I’ve struggled with making gym time a priority. It’s easy to go when you have to watch one kid, but two makes it really tough. However, last week I realized that I need to get my butt back in gear, so I got [...]

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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 4 Exhaustion Test

Week 4 - what column will I be doing in week 5?
This morning I was waiting around for some workers to finish fixing a crack in my foundation. While I waited around I decided to do my exhaustion test for week 4.

If you perform 30 or less pushups you go back to week [...]

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Personal: This week’s exercise confession

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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 4, Day 3

Week 4 - will I have to repeat it like week 3?
Today was day 3 of week 4 on my 100 pushup challenge.
Once again it looked tough, so I wasn’t sure if I could do all the pushups. Every time that I surprise myself and complete a set my confidence climbs though.
I was a [...]

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Wii Fit - Good fitness tool, or just a fad?

photo credit: austinANOMIC
I was over at a friend’s house the other night, and noticed that they had purchased the Wii Fit exercise program.
I’m naturally a bit of a skeptic, so I tend to think that the exercise benefits you would get from working out with a video game would be minimal, but I was [...]

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Progress on Goals for the Week

Since we are leaving for Boston this morning and not getting back until Sunday night I thought I would post an update today on my goals for the week since I won’t be posting my normal Sunday update (and unless I have the time and a computer in the hotel I probably won’t be posting [...]

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100 Pushups: Week Six, Day Three

This is it — the final daily update for the Get Fit Slowly one hundred pushup challenge. This is the end of the sixth week, but I’m not sure anyone has actually made it this far. (If you have, and if you do the 100 consecutive pushups in a day or two, please let us [...]

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“Berries, berries, the magical fruit…”

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100 Pushup Challenge: Week 4, Day 2

Week 4 resumes!
Here we are on week 4, day two.  Pretty similar to day one of week 4, but slightly more pushups.

I took the day off yesterday because I had such a hard day having to put my dog to sleep at the vet. Not something I ever want to go through again. (But I’m [...]

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Physio Ball Exercises

I was introduced to the physioball (swiss ball, stability ball, pilates ball, strength ball) in the early stages of my fitness journey. I have used it in core, strength, conditioning classes and Boot Camp along the way. There are a number of bodyweight exercises and stretches that can be done with the physioball. [...]

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Ingrid Michaelson Writes “OUCH”

When Ingrid Michaelson released Girls and Boys, she started a MySpace blog and has faithfully added to it. Back in May, she related a story about water-skiing. She started out the entry with the words, “I am not an athletic girl.”

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Mary E. Miller Swam The Hudson

On September 1, 1915, a 14 year old girl swam across the Hudson river, turned around and swam back. Her name was Mary Elizabeth Miller. This photos is part of the George Grantham Bain Collection at The Library of Congress and it is supposed that it might have been mislabeled. It could be that this [...]

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How to Stretch Properly

Although most of us recognize that we have to stretch before we exercise there is a lot of confusion out there about how to actually go about it. If you’re not stretching the right way, you could actually be setting yourself up for an injury. Here are some great tips on how to stretch properly [...]

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100 Pushups: Week Six, Day Two

It’s the penultimate day of the Get Fit Slowly one hundred pushup challenge — at least on the blog. I’m not aware of anyone doing the sixth week of this program, and that’s fine. After Friday, I’ll continue to post weekend updates until I’ve hit my 100th pushup. (I’m in week four right now.)
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Lower Back Flab

The lower back has always been a challenging area to tackle for me, as I have learned it’s very difficult to spot reduce fat from a particular body part, targeted strength exercises can do little to reduce your lower back fat. However, they can tone it and improve its appearance immensely. They can also [...]

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