Category: Exercise
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5 Lessons About Exercise You Can Learn From Your Dog
Being in love with exercise is a minority attitude, but regular activity offers so many health and well-being benefits that anyone should be able to find it pleasant, even if they’d rather be curled up on the couch with a book. If you’re struggling with the willpower to exercise regularly, you could probably use some…
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Problem Areas
Especially if you’re a woman, you probably have a specific part of your body you wish you could change — it’s an unfortunate consequence of a thousand cultural cues and media representations. The fitness industry and women’s magazines are happy to market to this wish with their thousands of pitches about toning your arms, flattening…
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Stop Making Sense, and Start Getting Strong!
Do you like getting swole? Do you also enjoy the band Talking Heads? Then do we have the workout video for you! There’s plenty of snow on the ground in the Northeast right now, making home workouts more appealing than ever. And it turns out anything can be a workout DVD — even a concert…
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A Nice Twist on “No Excuses”
The fitness industry is full of bluster and posturing — “no excuses,” “obsessed is how the lazy describe the dedicated,” and so on. Kimberly Snyder offers a nice twist on that often mean-spirited attitude: “No Excuse Not to Try,” and a series of simple yoga poses that pretty much anyone can do. See the whole…
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Snow Days!
The United States is seeing lots of snow (and ice) days lately, sometimes in places that aren’t accustomed to it at all. If it’s safe to do so, you should still try to get outside to get some exercise, and prepare for extra time using transit as you go about your day. Don’t go out…