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A Guide to Jogging Strollers
Jogging strollers come in a variety of shapes and sizes to match almost anyone's needs, including parents with twins or children with physical disabilities.
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Avoid Injury When You Exercise
Staying active—getting regular exercise—is one of the best ways to minimize the effects of aging. Exercise helps prevent chronic illness and loss of function in older adults.
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Avoid the Top Mistakes in the Gym
Not progressing wisely—exercising too much, too hard, or too often instead of gradually working out longer and harder—is a common mistake made by many fitness enthusiasts. But it’s not the only one.
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Bench These Six Exercise Excuses
Some excuses—I weigh too much, I'm too old, I have too many health problems—are in themselves strong arguments for increasing physical activity.
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Creating a Home Gym
For many people, a home gym works better than an actual gym because they don't have to travel to it.
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Exercise for the Seriously Unfit
You can't walk across a room without huffing and puffing. Your arms get tired unpacking a bag of groceries. You're carrying more and more excess body weight. And you can't remember the last time you got any real exercise.
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Exercising for Health and Longevity
In their quest to live a longer and healthier life, many people turn to supplements, herbal remedies and other forms of complementary medicine. But one remedy for a longer life costs nothing and requires no additional studies to prove its effectiveness.
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Feel the Power of a Short Circuit
Circuit training refers to a series of exercises done one after the other with little rest between. A complete series makes up one circuit.
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Fitness Folly Times Five
Do you make these fitness mistakes? Failing to warm up? Using improper form? Doing the same old routine? Focusing work on one area of the body? Exercising too hard or barely breaking a sweat?
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Gardening in Your Senior Years
Whether the move is to a smaller townhouse, apartment, or assisted living center, physical challenges and a lack of space can confront gardeners.
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Get a New Fitness Attitude
Here are strategies that can inspire anyone to maintain fitness motivation—whether you’re an elite athlete or a couch potato trying to get into shape.
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Gym Exercises That Work
This workout can be done at home or at the gym, using your own body weight as resistance, or with weights.
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How to Fit In Fitness
To get your kids moving, find physical activities they can enjoy at their own pace -- and become active with them.
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In Gymnastics, Kids Flip for Fitness
The sport helps build strength, flexibility, and cardiovascular endurance. Its all-around fitness benefits make it a good springboard to other activities.
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Just Do It—But Don't Overdo It
Exercise is good for you. You're probably sick of hearing that message.
But did you know too much exercise can make you sick?
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Making Decisions About Fitness
First decide how you can make exercise a priority. One idea: Put your workout on the calendar just like any other appointment.
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Seniors Can Volunteer Their Way to Fitness
If you try to exercise by yourself, you'll generally come up with any excuse not to do it. With volunteering, you are involved with a group where you have to make a commitment. You're not going to let the group down.
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Shape Up Safely
Regular exercise can improve your health and longevity. But doing too much too soon or not taking proper precautions can cause injury.
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Staying Fit on the Road
Whether you're a frequent business traveler or heading out on a family vacation, leaving town doesn't have to wreak havoc with your fitness routine.
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Stretching at Tee Time
Just 15 minutes of flexibility stretching with controlled breathing are ideal before strolling the links, and can result in a stronger game.
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Super Stretches for Your Upper Body
Fatigue, stress and bad posture can cause stiffness and soreness in the shoulders, neck, chest and upper back. Doing stretches regularly can help prevent and relieve these conditions.
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The Best Reasons to Strength Train
Although aerobic workouts like walking or running are important, they can’t take the place of strength training when it comes to building and preserving muscle.
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The New Face of Aging
Not only do baby boomers expect to live into their 80s or 90s, but they are expecting to be independent, one expert says.
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Too Old to Exercise? Not True
When you exercise, you gain more strength and flexibility. Your mood will improve, and you'll be able to think better.
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Treadmill Workouts: How to Go the Extra Mile
Working out on a treadmill can be a fun and effective way to stay in shape. And because it's not dependent on weather conditions, it offers you the flexibility of exercising at any time. Some tips on getting the most out of your workout.
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Using Exercise to Ease Chronic Conditions
"We now know that exercise is the most underrated health precaution anyone, even those with chronic conditions, can take," says J. Larry Durstine, Ph.D., a spokesman for the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).
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Weight Training for Teens
Once children hit puberty, and hormones make it possible to build muscle, weight training can become a part of a healthy exercise program for youths. Research suggests strength training has a lot to offer some teenagers in terms of health, fitness and fun.
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Weight-Training Moves That Boost Metabolism
Starting as early as your 20s and throughout your 30s, you'll naturally start to lose muscle -- and gain fat at a rate of about 2 percent per decade, especially if you have a sedentary job or lifestyle.
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What’s Up With Shortcut Workouts?
There are plenty of options to choose from if you want to get fit but don’t have 45 to 60 minutes daily to devote to exercise. But there’s a catch to taking shortcuts.
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Why Physical Activity Is Important
The more sedentary you are, the more likely you are to lose flexibility, endurance, strength, balance and coordination, which in turn will affect every aspect of your life.
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Work Out Your Health Club Choices
As people learn the benefits of keeping fit, the decision to join a health club can become easy. Deciding which one to join, though, can be tough.
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Your Personal Rx for Exercise Success
Like your signature, the exercise routine you prefer is individual. If you’re outgoing, for example, working out in a group situation could be what keeps you coming back for more. A more reserved person, however, might do better exercising solo.
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