Chair-walking
What, you ask, is chair-walking? Watch this video to find out: Then tell me whether this is real or a hoax. Please leave your comment here. Thanks!
Let this be a lesson to all tweeter-runners!
Running + Twitter + BlackBerry = a black eye and a cracked skull. That is the lesson taught by James Coleman of Bristol, England. According to this story at Gawker, Mr. Coleman was tweeting on his BlackBerry while running to work when he hit his head on a tree branch and cracked his skull. Ouch! …
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Who says that walking has to be boring?
I saw a story in the news today that made me ask that rhetorical question. It seems that Cirque du Soleil is determined to reclaim a world record related to walking. Stilt-walking, that is. Cirque wants to mark its silver anniversary by having more simultaneous stilt-walkers than any other group. What is the most unusual …
Sex and stairs
Sex and stairs — sounds painful, right? Wrong. Oh, you were thinking about sex on stairs? Wrong again. Dr. Harvey Simon wrote about sex and stairs at The New York Times website today. But he was writing about using stairs as a fitness tool: Even today, cardiologists tell heart patients they are fit enough to …
Running a half marathon virtually is not the same as the real thing.
I saw this in the news today, and I wonder how common it has become. Rocky Mountain Half Marathon is — for the first time in its history — letting participants run virtually. Virtual participation is made possible by the combination of MapMyRun.com and a Garmin GPS watch, which would seem to be secure in …
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Take a break today.
Taking a break from exercise some days makes a lot sense. We are one week away from the summer solstice, and that means “hot, hot, hot” where I live. So your off-time might be driven by crazy-hot — or crazy-cold — weather. Or you might just need a break from over-exerting yourself. But a lot …