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Workout warning: Muscle mags may be depressing June 24, 2008 If you read muscle magazines while working out your own muscles, you may want to rethink your routine. The good enough guide to health June 10, 2008 No time to eat right or exercise? Relax. Even mini moves add up to a huge disease-fighting payoff. Vibrating your bod may do muscles, bones good June 13, 2008 Standing on a vibrating platform may sound like an odd way to pass the time, but a new research review suggests it may do the muscles and bones of older people some good. Battle bone disease with weight training June 10, 2008 What are the best exercises to fight osteoporosis? Plus, a handy excuse to skip the gym: Some people are actually allergic to exercise. Smart Fitness answers your workout queries. Exercise may help prevent substance abuse June 9, 2008 Sure, exercise is good for your waistline, your heart, your bones ? but might it also help prevent addiction to drugs or alcohol? Pumping up your strength routine May 27, 2008 The best way to strength train is one of most enduring controversies in fitness. Opinion: 'Blade Runner' ruling subverts nature of sport May 22, 2008 Should anyone who must run on prosthetic legs be allowed to compete in the Olympics or other sporting events? Bioethcist Art Caplan, Ph.D, weighs in. Best fuel for your workout  June 17, 2008 Fit List personal trainer Kathy Kaehler suggests food choices for before and after exercise. 'Wii Fit' will definitely get you moving May 19, 2008 Acting like a cross between a personal trainer and a video game, "Wii Fit" offers up more than 40 different exercises and activities that are supposed to help those who play it not only get into shape but actually have fun while getting into shape. Government to unveil fitness test for adults May 14, 2008 If you didn't get a Presidential Physical Fitness Award in school, the government is giving you another chance to prove you're in shape. Structuring your shape-up routine May 13, 2008 Does it matter what sequence you do your exercises in? Which workouts are best for people with a bum knee or a bad back? Smart Fitness answers your workout queries. Fitness regimens based on your sex? April 29, 2008 As exercise researchers unravel the differences between the sexes, they say their findings may pave the way to sex-specific training regimens for athletes and recreational exercisers. Can you really be 'fit but fat'? Study says no April 28, 2008 New research challenges the notion that you can be fat and fit, finding that being active can lower but not eliminate heart risks faced by heavy women. Losing the 'matronly look' of menopause April 15, 2008 Why do women gain weight at menopause? And what can they do to shed those extra pounds? Smart Fitness answers your workout queries. Yoga helps older women stand taller April 10, 2008 Elderly women showed measurable improvements in their walking speed and balance after a nine-week yoga program ? and they gained a centimeter in height, on average, Philadelphia researchers report. Painkillers help older exercisers build muscle April 10, 2008 In a study of healthy older adults lifting weights regularly, for 3 months, taking recommended daily doses of ibuprofen (like that in Advil) or acetaminophen (like that in Tylenol) led to substantially greater increases over inactive placebo in quadriceps muscle mass and strength. |
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