Fitness when the weather outside is frightful
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METAIRIE (AP) — With rain threatening, students at Bissonet Plaza Elementary School wasted no time making their way to the back of campus. Some went straight to the field, where they ran laps around cones their teachers had set up. Others headed to a blacktop area, where they walked in groups until the start of class.
Olympic gold medal gymnast Shawn Johnson shared her fears, favorite routines and workout regimen with more than 400 adoring fans Sunday at the Mid-America Center, but she drew the line at giving out her phone number.
Launched two years ago by the Patti and Allan Hebert Wellness Center, Walking Counts is a campaign challenging students and other members of the university community to get moving.
"The Complete Golf Experience," Titleist Performance Institute-certified golf fitness instructors will develop a workout program that will make your body more functionally fit to play golf. A free seminar to learn more about the program will be held today at 5 p.m. at the LECOM Medical Fitness Wellness Center, 5401 Peach St.
Lights out, a disco ball, balloons and a long line of healthy snacks and refreshments set the perfect mood for BODYWORKS’ Zumba Party Thursday evening.
Seoul - Gym experts warn that runners should be careful not to become obsessed with their running routines. In South Korea for example several million people spend at least one hour a day running, walking or riding bikes. According to 2008 data from ...
Representatives from the state government awarded Carlsbad's Kelly Elementary School with a $5,000 check Thursday for physical fitness equipment and a $1,000 gift card to CVS/pharmacy for school supplies.
An active lifestyle has been part of Chuck and Marleen Lowman’s lives for a long time, and they’re continuing that through their senior years.
LISBON - Curves may have headed out of town, but there's no need to feel down, because now there's a place there called the YMCA. Lisbon's new YMCA Fitness Center will open Monday to members of the East Liverpool Area YMCA and to those seeking new membership.
Nancy Dye will never forget the day she was walking home from grade school and a patrol boy called her a "fat a--." Decades later, she can recall the incident in vivid detail and still remembers the boy's name. Today the New Lenox woman is 51, and for years she's been on a quest to achieve a goal that could help ease that memory.
It's called "rebounding" -- an exercise where one jumps up and down on a mini-trampoline. Some say it's the best full-body exercise you can get. According to NASA, rebounding is 68-percent more effective than jogging.
Sports 101 is offering a youth basketball league in Pickerington, Grove City, Lewis Center and the Blacklick/Reynoldsburg area for boys and girls ages 3-17. The eight-week season will run from Jan. 9 through March 7. All players will receive a reversible jersey, matching shorts and ticket to the Cleveland Cavaliers-New York Knicks game on Feb. 6 in Cleveland. For more information contact Chris ...
We all know the benefits of exercise: health, body image, athletic ability, endurance. But new research links physical activity to expanded brain power.
When I do a typical, early-autumn bicycle ride with a small group of buddies from Berks County, the pace is far from breakneck. Which means there's time to ask all sorts of health-and-fitness related questions. On one such ride, I asked about beet juice, the best workouts for preparing for a time trial, and today's topic, the recently suggested tax on soda. The guy who asked about the soda tax ...
A healthy dose of exercise is good medicine, even for lymphoma patients receiving chemotherapy, University of Alberta researchers have found.