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If you are training now to walk or run a marathon, half marathon, or some other race later this year, then many of your thoughts might go toward your training regimen — how to avoid injuries, how to walk or run faster, and so on. But it is possible to get SO caught up in …
Most walkers and runners believe that it is important to stretch after warming up. The hypothesis supporting this is that the extra blood flow to warmed-up muscles helps to protect you from injury during stretching. But Marc Rosenberg, D.C., recommends that you stretch before warming up. His argument: If you stretch COLD, your gains in …
A video on the Web illustrates the dangers of walking while text-messaging. American College of Emergency Physicians has warned: Don’t text or use a cell phone while engaged in any physical activities that require sustained attention; such activities include walking, biking, boating, rollerblading or even intermittent-contact sports such as baseball, football or soccer. And Staten …
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You can stay healthy by walking — or biking — to and from work. Researchers confirmed this in an article published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, in which they referred to walking or biking to and from work as “active commuting”. Here is the conclusion in the article’s abstract: Active commuting was positively associated …
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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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 …
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 …