by Heather Long | More from this Blogger Sports are a great fitness tool for parents and children alike in order to build a more balanced body. Sports encourage participation, improvement of self-confidence and self-image. Sports are also a great outlet for energy, something children often have in abundance. They can strengthen the body as [...]
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by Heather Long | More from this Blogger The triceps are located between the elbow and the armpit. As a muscle group, they are among the most neglected and in women especially, this is an area that when neglected ripples like a flag when the arm is lifted. The flabby arm phenomenon is not a [...]
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by Heather Long | More from this Blogger We talk about cardio a lot. Cardiovascular exercises are fundamental in any fitness program as it helps you to lose weight, build heart and lung strength as well as increases circulation and overall endurance. Cardio is also one of the ‘easier’ sets of exercises to perform because [...]
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by Heather Long | More from this Blogger One of the greatest things about this job is discovering all the new things that are out there for fitness and exercise. Whether it’s a new tape, a new workout style or even just a new gym that they are building, it’s part of my job to [...]
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by Heather Long | More from this Blogger The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 required public buildings, schools, libraries, restaurants and office buildings to provide wide doors and ramps to allow accessibility for people who are blind, deaf or in wheelchairs equally. Interestingly enough, health clubs are rarely set up to allow the 49.7 [...]
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by Heather Long | More from this Blogger The AP wire reported a really interesting report last Friday. I found the information to be challenging to current, common thought on fitness and exercise. While this report seems to fly in the face of fitness and dietary guidelines from the government, it’s worth contemplating. I am [...]
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by Heather Long | More from this Blogger A Review of Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America’s Obesity Epidemic Recently, I took a look at a book that caught my eye, mostly because the title really got to me. Anything that starts with “Fat Politics” gets my attention. As Lisa mentioned recently in the [...]
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by Heather Long | More from this Blogger The fitness is industry produces a lot of tools that stock aisle after aisle in the local and fitness stores. You can even buy yoga mats at the bookstore now. So what tools are good for what? Well, if you are exercising in order to increase weight-loss, [...]
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by Heather Long | More from this Blogger Too many women think strength training is not what women do. Seriously. The image of strength training brings to mind body builders built like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Even the most fit of women do not want to look over-muscled. However, strength training is very vital to any woman’s [...]
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by Heather Long | More from this Blogger At one time, a common fitness saying was ‘no pain, no gain.’ This is incredibly inaccurate. Frankly, pain is the body’s warning sign that something is wrong and that there is imminent danger to that area of the body. So if you’re performing an exercise and there’s [...]
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