Functional Rocks
Given the millions of Baby Boomers who are aging into bold and dynamic seniors, one of the big emerging trends is functional resistance training. In fact, it’s hard to even call it a trend considering the power it packs behind it.
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Park Once
Gargantuan, colossal, whopping multiplexes that offer “one stop shopping” also offer a unique fitness opportunity. The fact is, they’re so large that you can get a pretty good workout simply by never moving your car once you’ve parked it.
When to get help for painful joints
One of the most difficult situations in which you need to decide between home care or professional care is when something affects your joints. Figuring out when things will get better on their own and when you have a more serious problem is not easy.
Strike A Pose
If your car’s wheels are out of alignment, you’ll feel the pull. Same with your body. Once you teach it what good posture feels like, it doesn’t want to sway, sink, slouch, or slump. But It doesn’t get done to you. You have the work to do.
Carry That Camera!
Cyclists in Britain are using inexpensive cameras to document ill-mannered driving by car and truck drivers. And there are a lot more uses for portable cameras—to improve health, diet, and public health, among many others. Let’s get the lowdown on a few.
Use Your Past As a Guide
Those past fitness accomplishments that came so easily don’t serve you anymore...so stop the desire to “get back on track.” That track is overgrown with grass. That train has left the station. So why are you trying to get back on it?
Your New Year’s Revolutions
It’s a New Year, so it’s time to take charge. Americans are often unhappy with their lives and their futures...so start not with a resolution, but a revolution—a new way of looking at your body and brain that lets you more fully control your fate.
Brain Fitness with the Wii
Seniors centers all over the country are teaching seniors how to play the bowling, golf, tennis and boxing games. Many centers hire college students to teach the aging senior how to play the games. The seniors not only are improving their physical fitness
Get moving to treat and prevent arthritis
For years it was believed that people with arthritis should not exercise because movement could cause further damage to joints. Now, physical activity is recognized as playing an integral role in its prevention and treatment.
Can Exercise Make You Smarter?
Give your body the right information and it will work better and last longer. Processing information is what your body does. That information needs to be processed, remembered or forgotten—what happens in what we call rest.
