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Why Water Aerobics is the Best Sport

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When my friends invited me to the water aerobics class they take at their community pool, I didn’t understand what they were so excited about. After all, wasn’t it just exercise? What was the big deal? Yet they enthusiastically described…
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Change Your Mind, Change Your Habits

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Do you know that woman who has it together? The one whose children eat broccoli and who looks healthy, happy and fit? For many years I resented her just because she represented everything I wasn’t. At the time I was a preschool teacher…
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Fitness After 60; Water Aerobics

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I’m pretty sure all swimsuit designers are men. For cute young women, the suits are colorful and becoming. For the over 60 crowd, well, let’s just say they cover things up. Men have fantasies about young women in bikinis. Not so much their…
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5 Fitness and Weight Loss Myths Debunked

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Guess what? The U.S. is not #1 anymore. Mexico, according to the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization, has surpassed the United States as the fattest nation in the world. An estimated 70 percent of the Mexican population is overweight,…
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Fitness After 60: Benefits of Walking

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Not too long ago I had a shoulder replaced due to arthritic degeneration. It was not a pleasant experience. According to my orthopedist, there’s little I can do about arthritis eating away at my joints. I can fight back, however. His advice—get…

6 Truths About Fitness

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While I was never a fitness fanatic, I have had periods of my life where I’ve been in very good shape. I watched my diet (but still enjoyed good food and drink!), went to the gym several days a week for weight training and floor work and…
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How to Create Flow During Sports, Exercise & Life

Flow: The action or fact of moving along in a steady, continuous stream. In psychology, flow is defined as a mental state in which an individual becomes completely immersed in intense concentration while performing an activity. In some cases,…
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Giselle Bündchen´s Mommy & Me Yoga Session

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While enjoying the great outdoors, model mom Gisele Bündchen struck a yoga pose with her 7-month-old daughter Vivian. “Let the sun shine on you,” the supermodel captioned the above shot via Instagram. A few days earlier, the former…
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Belly Dance Fitness for Mamis-to-Be!

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For you mamis-to-be out there, belly dance before and after the birth of your baby has many unique benefits compared to other traditional dance and prenatal exercise forms. This dance is characterized by a series of isolated movements done…