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Too Hot to Work Out? Cool Yourself Down With This Exercise

Suzanne — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:47:20 +0000

Do you enjoy soaking up the summer sun with sand in between your toes? Do you want to make sure you’re able to rock that little polka-dot bikini? Take advantage of swimming for exercise during these warm months!

Swimming for exercise could very well be the best thing you do during the summer for your health. Swimming is great for your body - it works so many different muscles. Swimming hits your lungs, arms, legs, and abs, too - all while cooling you down.

Here are a few ideas to get you going:
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Five Fun Exercises You Can Do Outdoors

Suzanne — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:27:25 +0000

Want to know five fun exercises you can do outdoors? When you’re outdoors, it makes it more fun to exercise since you can focus your mind on other things instead of how much your legs burn.
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The Weight Loss Twins Rapid Action Metabolism - Review

Suzanne — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:14:54 +0000

If you look around the website, I don’t try to promote every weight loss book under the sun. Granted, there are tons of good books out there, but I try to spotlight only a few. I had a chance to preview Rapid Action Metabolism, by Bill and Jim Germanakos, a few weeks ago and I knew after finishing it that this is one ebook I’d be happy to recommend. (If you’ve never heard of them, Bill and Jim are also known as The Weight Loss Twins — they were Season 4 champs of NBC’s hit show, The Biggest Loser.)

Reading about Jim and Bill’s life before the Biggest Loser, you realize they’re regular people — just like you — who went down the wrong path when it came to nutrition and exercise. How many times have you rushed out the door without breakfast, like Jim? Or you grabbed some fast food for lunch because you’re so busy at work? At 330 lbs, Bill didn’t even think anything was wrong because he could still bench press 340lbs!
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Weekend Weight Gain: How to Avoid It

Suzanne — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:56:19 +0000

After a long, hard workweek it’s completely understandable that you’d want to relax, unwind and enjoy the couple of days off you have over the weekend. This includes making a pit stop at the grocery store for stuff to cook on the grill, drinks to ice up in the cooler, and extra munchies to help pass the time since you’re not in nose-to-the-grindstone work mode.

This is like an American pastime — using our weekends to meet and eat with friends and family. It gets even more indulgent on holiday weekends when meals might include an entire smorgasbord of potluck goodies everyone brought by your house while they swim in your pool.

Even on non-holiday weekends, we tend to consumer more calories because we drink calorie-laden alcoholic beverages and we eat out in restaurants and ignore portion guidelines, ending our meals with desserts that have names like Death By Chocolate.

You don’t have to let your free time that you spend on the weekends ruin all of the hard work you do to achieve or maintain trim figure during the work week. Pick one of these tips to help you whittle down your waist if you’re prone to splurging from Friday night through Sunday:
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PREhab Instead of REhab With the Prehab Fit Kit

Suzanne — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:27:07 +0000

Hands up if you’ve ever had aches and pains because you did something simple, like twisting, reaching, or even sitting or sleeping the wrong way? And don’t get me started about bad posture! I’ve had rehabilitation on my foot because I kept sitting on my computer chair with one foot under me, just because I couldn’t be bothered to sit up straight. I can only imagine how worse things would be if I didn’t exercise.

If you need a reason to exercise, the prevention of aches and pains is a good one, whether you’re in your twenties or a baby boomer. You see, it’s better to PREhab your body (by getting fit) instead of going to REhab because you injured yourself by doing something simple.

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