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In-Your-Face Fitness: A few dents in those cellulite theories
In July 2010, there was an end-of-days-type hailstorm in Calgary, and my little Acura got hammered. Now I drive a car that looks like it has cellulite.
I'm cheap, and I don't need an overpriced and rapidly depreciating midlife-crisis-mobile to boost my...Tags: Overweight, Pilates, Dermatologists, Medical Specialization, Weight Loss
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In-Your-Face Fitness: Vanity can be a healthy asset
You're so vain. You probably think this column is about you.
Carly Simon may be down on vanity, but I'm cool with it, so long as you don't go off the deep end. (I'm talking to you, Heidi Montag.) The desire to look good can be a powerful motivator for...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Bodybuilding, Weight, Colleges and Universities, Heidi Montag
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In-Your-Face-Fitness: High-intensity training burns more calories
Welcome to another exciting installment of Fun With Math!
Today we're going to use basic addition and subtraction to show how running is better than walking for fat loss, no matter what your doctor says. I have no idea where the myth that walking a...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Weight Loss, One Hour Cycling, YouTube, Weight
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My Turn: She ditched the boyfriend but not the exercise habit
When I was 22, my boyfriend "Jim" asked me to take a little exercise class with him at the local junior college. At the time, I had no idea that this simple request would mean so much to me 28 years later.
I still can't figure out what possessed me to...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Education, Colleges and Universities, Health, Armed Forces
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In-Your-Face Fitness: Friend through thick and thin?
Dear Friend:
You drew me to your website with promises of rapid muscle gain and even faster fat loss. I know we're friends because that's the first thing I saw at the top of your home page: "Dear Friend." That makes it official, doesn't it?
And now I'...Tags: Entertainment Events, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Weight Loss, File Sharing, Book
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In-Your-Face Fitness: The pull to exercise outdoors
On a recent beautiful and sunny day, I strolled into my local gym to lift some weights. The gym is near Nose Hill Park, which is one of the largest municipal parks in North America. It has majestic views of the city of Calgary and the Rocky Mountains,...Tags: Entertainment Events, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Asthma, Frostbite, Science
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Ed Pauls dies at 80; inventor of NordicTrack
While running through the slick streets of Minnesota on a particularly cold and wet winter day in 1975, cross-country skier Ed Pauls was moved to wonder: Could he come up with an exercise machine that would allow him to practice skiing indoors?
Trained...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Diseases and Illnesses, Health, Alzheimer's Disease, Nordic Skiing
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The myth of ripped muscles and calorie burns
Whenever I hear about some amazing way to boost resting metabolism, my male-bovine-droppings detector goes berserk. Take the perennially popular one stating that 1 pound of muscle burns an extra 50 calories a day while at rest — so if you gain 10...Tags: Medical Research, Physiology, Colleges and Universities, University of Texas at Austin, Entertainment Events
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Not motivated? Sign up for a race
Forrest Gump discovered his passion for running on the spur of the moment, when a bunch of Alabama bullies were chasing him and his leg braces broke off. But for most of us, developing a commitment to running, cycling or some other form of exercise...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Weight, Track and Field, Obesity, AIDS
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The best celebrity fitness profiles of 2011
In 2011, we interviewed 26 South Florida celebrities regarding their fitness regimens. Just in time for New Year's resolutions, we've selected some of their best answers to our questions.
Read what they're doing to keep their bodies healthy and looking...Tags: Overweight, Basketball, Police Women of Broward County (tv program), Entertainment Events, Anna Kournikova
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Endurance training: The 'worst form of exercise?'
Endurance training is “one of the worst forms of exercise there is,” Dr. Joseph Mercola recently wrote in his online newsletter.
Mercola, who operates a popular alternative health Web site and runs a supplement business, cited a recent...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Medical Research, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Science, Health
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Do your pushups, Mr. President
As the longtime personal trainer for President Barack Obama and the first family, Cornell McClellan deserves some props for Michelle's famously toned arms. But in addition to working out White House staff and professional athletes, the nation's "first...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health, White House, Barack Obama
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