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Let’s Go Ride a Bike! Cycling for Exercise
Are you looking for a way to lose weight and get in shape? Consider riding your bike. Bicycling is a great way to raise the heart rate and see the world from another level.
Whether you choose an actual bicycle or a stationary one, cycling works the entire body. And, best of all, cycling is fun. You can...
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Exercise Your Way To A Healthy Back
The body is a machine. It was meant to move about. When it doesn’t move, it gets weak. That weakness can lead to back pain.
As technology has propelled us forward as a society, we have taken a step backwards as a human machine. Video games, computers, and remote controls have all lead us and our...
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5 Great Exercise Recovery Tips
Exercise recovery means replenishing vital nutrients after exertion to help the body recover for an optimal workout the next day. Mountain High Yoghurt shares tips and recipes to facilitate muscle recovery and electrolyte balance during recovery to support a healthy lifestyle.
Summer has become the focus...
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Walking for Weight Loss
Some of us are content to follow a standard, regimented weight loss and exercise plan. For others, inspiration is necessary. We need a vision, beyond that of a slimmer body. And that ‘s where long distance walking may come in. Walking is one of the best ways to lose weight. For one thing, it’s...
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Qigong: Self-Healing Through Fitness
Traditional Chinese Medicine is becoming more and more popular in the western world. One of the most popular forms of TCM, besides acupuncture of course, is the form of meditation and physical exercise known as Qigong.
Qigong literally has thousands of different forms and styles, all meant to attract...
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Karma Yoga Intertwines East and West for Inner Harmony
Karma yoga is the one type of yoga that brings the physical and the spiritual worlds together — most other types of yoga focus on either one or the other. If practiced properly, students of karma yoga can experience the harmony that comes when the physical and spiritual worlds are in balance.
The...
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Wii Fit Plus: The Next Evolution in Fitness Games
Nintendo’s instantly-popular Wii was first introduced in 2005. Just a few short years later the Wii Fit came along forever changing the way people viewed “home exercise programs.” Now, we have the Wii Fit Plus a “new and improved” version of the same fitness game that has...
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Get the Skinny on Fitness DVDs
There are many benefits to working out at home — it’s free, you’re not bound by gym hours or trainer schedules, you can do it in your pajamas. The downside is that getting started can be a little overwhelming.
With so many fitness DVD’s to choose from, finding the one that fits your...
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Get with the Game! More Fitness Games for the Wii Fit Plus
There’s just something about the Wii Fit Plus that makes folks want to exercise — probably because playing the fitness games doesn’t feel much like exercise. The Wii Fit Plus is a lot of fun and there are lots of built-in exercise “classes” to try out.
The cardio-based exercises...
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Wii Fit Plus: Pros and Cons of Getting Fit with Video Games
Using the latest in video game technology, Nintendo managed to take something that many people dreaded –exercise — and create a gaming system to propel home-based fitness to the next level. The Wii Fit and the more recent Wii Fit Plus have both been huge hits — not just with gamers, but...
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