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When We Make Excuses Changing the way we eat or move can be difficult for many reasons. Our environment is filled with obstacles to healthy habits, from time constraints to financial considerations to social pressures. This art, from a Nike campaign, shows excuses where they live: in your head. Nike’s answer is to “Just do…
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Image from iguanamouth
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Finding the Exercise That’s Right for You If you haven’t exercised regularly since physical-education class in high school, the idea of getting started can sound frankly awful. Fortunately, being active is a lot more fun — and can easily be far better personalized — than those grim tests and dodgeball sessions in the school gym.…
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Exercise and food have both spawned dizzying gadget and gear industries, with product reviews in their millions all over the Web. Fortunately, you don’t require much gear to improve your eating and exercise habits, but a few things can help nudge you in the right direction and keep you accountable to your goals. How Does…
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Exercise Keeps Us Young The New York Times has a nice discussion of an article just published in the Journal of Physiology, “An investigation into the relationship between age and physiological function in highly active older adults” (full article available at the journal’s page). This study looked at a mix of laboratory and other “internal”…
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Getting Comfortable with Gym Going You don’t have to join a gym to get more exercise in your life, but you may find it helps you by providing a “third place” with fewer distractions from the work at hand, access to classes or trainers, or just the external nudge of knowing you paid money so…
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“Our tallest president was also our most shredded by far.”
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Too Much, Too Soon This is the year! You’re going to get in shape, and you’re off to a running start! And the next day, ow, ow, you can hardly walk, and the stairs might as well be a fortress wall. It’s probably just benign soreness — common after doing a particularly tough workout or…
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Fitness Motivationals There’s a lot of crazy messages out in the fitness world, welcoming pain and restriction, claiming that you can’t get better if you stay in your comfort zone. Sometimes it helps us reframe our assumptions if we deliberately do “something that scares us,” but that may not be the best way to begin.…