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Have You Heard of the freshman 15?

by Heather Long

The Freshman 15 refers to the weight gain phenomenon that happens to students in their freshman year at college. These are pounds students' gain due to excess, stress and workload in their first year at the college level.

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Make or Break Your Fitness Plans

by Heather Long

What are your fitness plans? Are they to lose weight? Are they to get in shape? Are they just to fit better into your clothes? Maybe you just want to reduce the stress in your life?

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Your Self-Image Defines Your Success

by Heather Long

I talk a lot about motivation and goal setting, I think it's important to keep in mind that if you believe in yourself, anything is possible. I know that sounds exceptionally cliché, but remember - in every cliché there is a root of truth.

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Week 2: Fitness Magazine You Can Do It Challenge

by Heather Long

Fitness magazine said you can do it, and I've been doing it. I signed up and dived into the challenge 10 days ago when I posted the information about the challenge here at the Fitness blog.

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Tuesday Fitness Tips: Did You Know ... ?

by Heather Long

Happy Tuesday! It's the fourth day of school here and my daughter is caught up in her enthusiasm for going to school every day. We're both still trying to figure out the learning curve. We walk to school together in the morning and then I walk back to the house.

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10 Tips to Finding Time to Exercise

by Heather Long

We've talked about the reasons to exercise and the need for consistency in your fitness program.

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Revisiting the Fitness Magazine: You Can Do It Challenge

by Heather Long

I signed up for the Fitness Magazine You Can Do It challenge. I've been following their advised workout and let me tell you, four days in - I'm sore.

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Your Kids & Exercise

by Heather Long

As I was telling you earlier, today is the first day of school in my area and it seemed like a great time to revisit the fact that kid's need exercise.

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Why Do A Challenge?

by Heather Long

I talked about the Fitness Magazine You Can Do It Challenge earlier and I've hosted my own challenges here as well. But why should you participate in a challenge? Several reasons actually, the primary one being - it's really nice to win or compete. A challenge gives you a direction to go in.

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Fitness Magazine's You Can Do It Challenge

by Heather Long

In the September issue of Fitness magazine there is a great two-month fitness challenge called You Can Do It. If you don't receive this magazine by subscription, you should check it out at your local magazine stand.

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