exercise

Exercise: Can Circadian Rhythms Determine Your Best Time?

by Laurette Willis August 1, 2010
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If you exercise regularly, you may have already determined what is the best and most productive time for you to exercise. Once you have a routine established, it’s important to stick with it. However, if you’re not consistent with exercise and you find that it’s wearing you down instead of building you up, you may [...]

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Exercising with Kids: It Can be Child’s Play!

by Laurette Willis April 5, 2010
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We all know how important exercise is to our child’s growth and physical development. Lack of exercise is partly responsible for the growing childhood obesity epidemic in our culture. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the U.S., the percentage of overweight children aged 6-11 years has almost doubled since the early 1980′s. [...]

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Too Late to Start Exercising Now?

by Laurette Willis February 5, 2010
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Perhaps you haven’t exercised in a l-o-n-g time. Maybe your schedule at work or home demands too much of your time or you simply fell out of the routine. I have good news for you! If you haven’t exercised in months, a year, or ever—it’s never too late to begin making fitness a part of [...]

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Gardening, Exercise and Calories

by Terra Hangen September 3, 2008
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Good news! Gardening uses calories, since it is a form of exercise, and you can get a good workout gardening. While you are out in your beautiful garden, weeding, planting, digging or mowing your lawn, you are expending calories. There were two books on this topic published in early 2008. Jeffrey Restuccio’s book is titled [...]

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