Archive for February, 2006
5 Ways to Stick With Your Exercise Goals
Beginning or getting back to an exercise routine involves more than just scheduling
your workouts and joining a gym. In fact, it’s entirely possible to join a gym and
never actually go, even as those monthly payments show up on your bank statement.
I know that considering I’ve done that a few times in my life. Sticking with your goals
requires a few mental tricks to help keep you moving, focused and motivated.
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the full write-up at about.com
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Laugh Your Way to Better Health
There have been a lot of recent studies of depression, stress and workplace tensions
and their effect on health. They did not prepare a pretty picture. These things can kill
you.
Finally, however, there is a movement to study positive feelings and happy thoughts
and, yes, laughter which was once labeled “The Best Medicine”, and their effects.
It is a happier picture. Perhaps even a comedy.
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Common Fitness Myths
More Muscle: Why Do Workouts Work?
Most machines don’t improve with use. Old pickup trucks don’t gradually become Ferraris
just by driving them fast, and a pocket calculator won’t change into a supercomputer
by crunching lots of numbers.
The human body is different. As weightlifters know, the more that humans use their
muscles, the stronger they become. And unused muscles do not remain preserved; neglect
causes them to waste away, or atrophy.
It’s a remarkable response, one that scientists don’t fully understand. Somehow, muscle
cells “sense” how they’re being used and thereupon remodel themselves to better fit the
task. How does that happen? And what precisely is it about exercise that triggers the
changes?
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