normalizing it all
From the category archives:
June 3, 2009 is the day for the celebration of National Running Day. This is a fine day to rededicate yourself to your fitness program. A day to set up your schedule to complete your first 5 K race or to solidify your marathon training schedule. We’ll be adding information to help you with both. [...]
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The District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) has been declared the fittest of the 50 largest cities in the United States. The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) using their American Fitness Index (TM) AFI has found that the overall health and fitness of Washington, D.C. ranks first nationally. The index is a composite which includes [...]
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Well, no Colbert style tips today. Just a straight forward quick and easy tip for your toes.
Training Tip of The Week:
Always use synthetic socks for your runs. Use material will which wick moisture away from your feet. Cotton socks lose their shape and cushioning when wet. They also hold the moisture against your feet increasing [...]
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Whatever your politics are, wherever you live, not just in the United States, but all over the world, people are hoping for change. And there is a lot that needs to be changed. In fact some things have been so bad that any change will have to be for the better.
But, as the expression goes, [...]
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The concept of fitness is sometimes confusing and we may even revise this relatively simple conceptualization. Many theorists view it through their own prism and take their specific interests or personal conceptualization and raise one component of fitness to the highest rank of importance. They then either neglect or even belittle the other facets of [...]
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A more appropriate title might be sweet forgetfulness. Higher blood sugar has been found to impair memory. Researchers conducting studies on older individuals using functional MRI found less blood flow in critical brain areas in those with even moderately elevated blood sugar. Since glucose tolerance, the ability for the body to appropriately handle glucose and [...]
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Each year the calendar starts afresh, but hangovers linger from the last year. What you are right now, you’ve been building to, or fallen to by virtue of what you’ve done over the last year. This holds for you as an individual, and for bigger things like the economy.
Many say it is not good to [...]
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Training, dedication, and hard work (along with a good diet and a bit of rest carefully added) will go far in helping you improve your conditioning and body composition. Your performance will increase. But for most of us, we will not become world class athletes, or even national class athletes. That is no reason not [...]
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Science, Numbers, Journalism and Critical Thinking
I believe it was on a Merlin Mann podcast, where someone jokingly mentioned the concept of an iColon website which in typical Web 2.0 fashion people could share the images and films of their colonoscopy procedures. This week the New York Times managed to demonstrate where their heads were at [...]
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Drifting around the web, I came across a description of pain in a runner’s foot which, summarized, was essentially:
“I began having tenderness in my foot, on the top outside at the row of bones and tendons that connect with the baby toe (at about the middle of my foot). I was also sore all the [...]
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A Mulligan 4 Condy?: The stylish and multi-talented U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice has developed a penchant for...
Tendinopathy - Yes; Tendinitis - No: Tendinitis is often used incorrectly as a generic term for overuse tendon injuries. The term that sh...
