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Bill Brown
Apr 11, 2018

Want to live longer and better? Do strength training

Regular physical activity promotes general good health, reduces the risk of developing many diseases, and helps you live a longer and healthier life. For many of us, “exercise” means walking, jogging, treadmill work, or other activities that get the heart pumping. But often overlooked is the value of strength-building exercises. Once you reach your 50s

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Bill Brown
Apr 04, 2018

10 Healthy Lifestyle Tips for Adults

Eat a variety of foods For good health, we need more than 40 different nutrients, and no single food can supply them all. It is not about a single meal, it is about a balanced food choice over time that will make a difference! A high-fat lunch could be followed by a low-fat dinner. After

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Bill Brown
Apr 03, 2018

8 Reasons You’ll Benefit to Join a Gym

The Centers for Disease Control recommends that adults get at least 150 minutes of moderately intense aerobic exercise every week — but less than half of all Americans do so. We can all find lots of excuses for not getting our bodies in motion, but there’s an equally compelling list of reasons why we should

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Steve Levert
Mar 30, 2018

Playing kickball as an adult taught me that the best teams are the ones that know how to lose

Playing kickball as an adult taught me that the best teams are the ones that know how to lose.  When I was a child, I was not very good at hitting balls with sticks or kicking them with my feet. I didn’t think this was a huge tragedy. But my classmates—suburban mini-jocks with blond hair

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Bill Brown
Mar 29, 2018

The Weightlifting Technique That Will Change Your Body

Ever plan to go to the gym and stop dead in your tracks because you just don’t know what to do? Maybe your goals are too broad? Maybe you’re expecting too much? How can you really lose weight, gain lean muscle, and build your dream body with just one simple workout plan that doesn’t require

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Bill Brown
Mar 21, 2018

5 Amazing Things That Happen to Your Body When You Start Lifting Weights

Picking up the dumbbells has benefits way beyond getting toned. You probably already know that hitting the weights at the gym or doing bodyweight exercises makes you stronger and fitter. But what many people don’t realize is that strength training does far more than that for both your body and your mind. “I’m actually so

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Ali Heck
Mar 20, 2018

7 Mistakes You Might Be Making in Indoor Cycling Class

And how to be sure you’re not just spinning your wheels Holding on Too Tight While it sometimes might feel like it, we swear the bike isn’t going to derail and shoot across the room. So try not to cling to the handlebars with the grip of a champion rock climber. “No white knuckles!” says Jessica Bashelor,

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Bill Brown
Mar 19, 2018

Interval Training: Short Workouts That Really Pay Off

  Less time in the gym doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice fitness if you know this secret: Interval training. Research shows that interval training—workouts in which you alternate periods of high-intensity exercise with low-intensity recovery periods—increases fitness and burns more calories over a short period of time than steady-state cardio. So how do you get

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Steve Levert
Mar 13, 2018

3 Exercises to Improve Your Kickball Game

When you first start playing kickball, you may be surprised to learn that you do not energy to run from first to home or the power to throw the ball all the way from home to 1st. Here are the workouts for powering up specific movements in kickball with various workouts. How to kick the

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Ali Heck
Mar 08, 2018

AN INTERVIEW WITH VELMA GARNES

I had followed Velma Garnes on social media for many, many (many) months before ever meeting this force of a woman I greatly admired from afar. She radiated power, strength, and intelligence. Many moons later, I found myself teaching a class that started directly after one of hers. I discovered Velma was not only ridiculously strong, but incredibly

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