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06 May 2008 01:41 PM

Walking - The Great and Easy Exercise

by Heather Long

Walking is one of the best exercises you can do. Why, you may ask? Because you do it every day. You do it when you get out of bed in the morning. You do it to go out and pick up the paper. You do it to get to the car and from the car.

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02 May 2008 01:16 PM

11,000 Steps A Day

by Heather Long

Hey Moms and Dads, are you doing the 10,000 steps a day program to maintain your fitness? You might consider buying a pedometer for your kids because according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, boys should be taking at least 11,000 steps a day and girls should be taking 13,000.

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02 May 2008 09:08 AM

Tennis For Two? Or Four?

by Heather Long

Sound like fun? Tennis can be a great way to dive into springtime fitness because you can do it with a friend, with a spouse, with a friend and a spouse or with the whole family.

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01 May 2008 08:07 AM

Fitness - The Easier Choice

by Heather Long

I wish I had a magic hat, one that I could pull great choices out of that would make fitness not only easier to do, but easier to grasp. Once upon a time, I thought that there were just fortunate people in the world who were born fit and healthy.

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30 Apr 2008 08:17 AM

End of April Fitness Goal Check

by Heather Long

Can you believe it's the end of April already? It seems like just yesterday we were celebrating the New Year and then it was Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day and Easter and now - tomorrow, we celebrate May Day, then Cinco de Mayo, then Mother's Day and the list goes on and on and on.

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19 Apr 2008 08:51 AM

Fitness Confessions - Sleep Apnea

by Heather Long

So after my sleep studies, I was diagnosed with severe obstructive sleep apnea. Aimee's provided a lot of great information over in the Health blog about sleep apnea, so I won't go into too much detail here about what it is.

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18 Apr 2008 05:33 AM

Make Life & Fitness Easier for Yourself

by Heather Long

Wouldn't it be great if we had a magic wand that we could just wave that would make fitness easier to attain? I used to think that some people were just born fit and other people, well - we weren't so lucky. Fitness is a state of mind, it's who you want to be.

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17 Apr 2008 12:57 PM

Intensity of the Exercise

by Heather Long

You go to the gym every morning, you put on your headphones, crank up your book on tape, turn on the iTunes or just zone out to the tv screens around you as you hop on the treadmill and start walking your way to fitness.

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15 Apr 2008 08:41 AM

What Not To Do

by Heather Long

It's important when you're making fitness choices that you make the ones that will benefit you the most and that you avoid the ones that will hurt you. By hurt, I don't mean physical soreness because let's face it -- exercise can make you sore and it should make you sore.

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14 Apr 2008 09:58 AM

The Buddy Challenge!

by Heather Long

You know what we haven't had much of recently? If you're thinking challenge, then you're right. We haven't had much of a challenge lately. So I thought I would offer you this challenging idea and see if you will pick it up and 'run' with it or 'walk' with it or even 'cycle' with it.

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