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Exercise with a Cold?

Perhaps the biggest question when it comes to exercise in the cold season is should you continue your exercise routine if you have a cold?

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Want a workout: Try chopping wood

Did you know there was a health bonus to using wood as a heat source?

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Water Based Exercise

Any type of exercises can be done in the water. You can jog, run, use weights; in fact almost any exercise will work in the water.

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Turn ordinary activities into extraordinarily effective exercises!

It’s not magic and there’s no purchase required. All you have to do is add a little extra effort to your normal activities and you’ll be sneaking in exercises in places you would have never guessed.

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Why a gym membership is worth it

We all know that if there is a fountain of youth, certainly exercise is it. Along with eating a healthy diet, exercise is the one thing you can do to improve how you feel and the overall quality of...

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Lose The Baby Fat

It’s not amazing to learn that women who never had a problem with weight control suddenly have a huge problem losing the weight they gain during pregnancy.

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The Best Exercise for Your Stomach!

When it comes to exercises and why people exercise, the most focused on part of the body is the stomach.

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What is your Body Type?

Perhaps you’ve noticed that some people seems to be able to eat anything they want without gaining any weight, while others pack on the pounds from just looking at a piece of bread.

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At Your Desk: Ways To Exercise

Many of us have jobs that require us to sit at a desk a day long. The problem with that is that it means that many of us aren’t getting the exercise during the day we need to keep healthy and feeling...

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Post Election Exercise

Whether your candidate has won or not, now is the time to leave politics in the past and to get back on an exercise routine.

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Winter Stretching Tips

Whether you know it or not, the cool fall and cold winter weather can wreak havoc on your back. Cold temperatures create muscles that are short and tight which in turn tend to pull on the spine and put...

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18 and Under Need to Exercise

For the 18 and under crowd, exercising is usually the last thing on their minds, but with obesity and diseases like diabetes on the rise exercising is just as important for the under 18 crowd as it is...

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Winter Exercise Tips for People Who Are Way Too Busy

Exercise is essential, particularly during the winter months when we are much more likely to be sedentary. Just because the weather is miserable and you’re bust is no reason not to exercise.

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Move it or Lose It

How Daily Motion Exercise Can Make You Feel Younger

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Tips to Keep Exercising

So you started exercising and for a while it was going pretty good. Then it started to become more like a chore and less like something you wanted to do so you stopped. Does that sound like you?

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Exercise Tips for Senior Citizens

Exercise is important for everyone. This is particularly true for seniors who more than any other age group are bound by the old saying, use it or lose it.

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15 Minute Christmas Workout

It’s Christmas time which means that most of us are very busy. With all that needs to be done you’re probably thinking that you just don’t have time to exercise. But regardless of how much you have to...

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Walk before you eat

There is one thing about the holidays that everybody can agree on. Try as we might, most of us will be eating way too much over the holiday season. And who could blame us, with the abundance of...

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New Year’s Exercise Resolutions You Can Keep

Well the holiday’s are over and our excuse to eat like there is no tomorrow is gone for another year. Perhaps you were able to control yourself in the face of the cookie tray and the pepperoni platter,...

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Exercising Outside in Winter

During the cold winter months, one of the best ways to keep in shape while fighting the cabin fever blues is by exercising outside in winter.

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Motivation to Exercise

No one needs to be told that they need to exercise, but knowing you need to exercise and actually conjuring the motivation to exercise can be two very different things. When it’s easier to do nothing,...

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Start getting your beach body ready now!

It may be the depth of winter but now is the time to begin working to get your body fit and trim in time for the beach weather just around the corner. That’s right, now is the time to start getting...

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Exercise Tips for New Moms

If you’re a new mom, exercise is probably the last thing on your mind. But that really shouldn’t be the case.

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Make The Right Exercise Plan For You!

Exercise is very important to stay healthy which is why it is so important to get on an exercise plan that works for you.

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Exercise Can Make You Smarter

Did you know that the same exercises you do to keep your body in shape can also help keep your mind in shape; in fact, those same exercises may just make you smarter.

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Choosing the Right Protein Powder

If you already exercise regularly it’s a good bet that you already use or are considering using a protein powder to supplement your diet and to increase your intake of essential nutrients.

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Exercise and Kids

It is the responsibility of the parents to make sure kids are getting the exercise they need to stay healthy and happy.

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Wii Fit Exercise Programs

Wii Fit combines the fun of a video game with fitness and exercise, and more and more people are starting to turn to Wii Fit for entertainment and to get the exercise they need to stay happy and healthy.

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Exercise Essentials: The Military Pushup

The Most Important Exercise Everyone Should Know

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Take a Walk and Map it!

When it comes to walking, there may be different individual reasons and motivations that can get you out the door and exercising but there is one thing that all walkers have in common.

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Exercise Essentials: The Squat Thrust

The squat thrust is one of the exercises that really should be part of your regular exercise routine. You probably remember the squat thrust from grade school calisthenics, but there’s a reason the...

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Coffee and Exercise: Together at Last!

There’s some pretty good news for those who want to stay fit, and who love their coffee. A new study by US scientists at the University of Illinois is suggesting that drinking coffee could just make...

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Exercise Essentials: The Sit-Up

And the debate continues; do sit-ups strip pounds from the waistline or not? Are sit-ups worth doing?

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Heart Patients Get Call To Exercise

People who have heart problems and chronic heart failure usually get the same recommendation; that being to take it easy and relax.

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Brain Exercise

We all know exercise for the muscles in our body is important but there is another muscle that needs exercise as well, and it rarely gets it.

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Exercise Essentials: Lunges

There are a lot of exercise that work the lower body, but none may be as effective as lunges which are proven to be incredibly effective for targeting the muscles of the lower body.

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Weight is no indicator of need for Exercise

We all know people who can eat whatever they want, whenever they want and as much as they want with no issue with weight gain and with no need to exercise.

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How Much To Exercise

It was the old standby number. 30 minutes a day was the quotable number for anyone wondering how much exercise they needed on a daily basis. But according to the American College of Sports Medicine...

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Home Workout Just as Effective as the Gym

Many people join a health club or gym with the intention to get in shape, but joining a gym and actually going and working out at a gym translates into two very different things.

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Exercise Tips for the Whole Family

There’s an old saying in business; all goals are team goals. And when it comes to keeping the whole family in shape and exercising regularly that old saying really hits home with an important message.

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Water Fitness and Chronic Pain

Exercise is essential for everyone, but if you suffer from chronic pain or have a condition that makes the impact of exercise painful in the knees and joints, you really should consider water fitness...

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Women: How to get a slim waist and big butt

The definition of female beauty is always changing and there is no doubt that right now the hot look is a slim waist and a beautiful big bottom.

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Lose the Man Boobs

The human body is beautiful in all if its forms, except perhaps when it comes to man boobs. We’ve all experienced them before; at the beach, in the park or perhaps due to a neighbor who refuses to wear...

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Dumbbell Exercises

Dumbbells may just be the one piece of exercise equipment that everybody has, or can get very inexpensively.

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Pools and hot tubs -- a fun way to stay fit

Swimming pools and hot tubs are just plain fun, but many people overlook the health benefits. Just about anyone, regardless of age or physical condition, can gain health benefits from swimming.

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Exercise Essentials: jogging tips for beginners

It’s one of the easiest and fastest ways to burn calories and the only equipment you need is a fairly good pair of running sneakers. Yes, it’s jogging and it just may be one of the best ways to lose...

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Exercise to fight depression

Depression is a serious mental health condition that is experienced by everyone at some point. Although the root cause of depression can be different for everyone, the physical symptoms of depression...

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Cardio-phobic? Fit mom of 4 shares workout secrets

Megan Johnson did something at 33 that she’d dreamed of since college -- she entered a bodybuilding, figure and fitness competition and placed a respectable seventh in the figure category.

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Use technology as a trainer

Summer is here. Say 'so long' to the stuffy gym and hello to biking, swimming and outdoor exercise. An added bonus -- no more gym fees.

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Fresh ideas for fitness fun with your family

With kids and adults alike banking more hours than ever in front of the TV and computer, it's time for a fresh outlook on staying fit.

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