Your Place For Fitness
Exercise With Allergies? Yes You Can!
Don’t let fall allergies force you into putting your
outdoor workouts on hiatus. Steal these symptom-nixing tips
from Greenville/Spartanburg, South Carolina-based allergist
Neil Kao, MD, known to many as “The Allergy Dude.”
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5 Ways to Keep Your Workouts From Falling By the Wayside
No matter how good your workout intentions are, it’s all too easy for
life to intrude and stomp all over your plans without a backward glance. But
it doesn’t have to be that way. After a good deal of trial and error, I’ve
learned that
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Gear Guide: Strengthen Your Core—and More
As a working mom, I’m always looking for ways—preferably fun
ones—to get maximum return from my workout time. So I was delighted to
discover that the “super-cool” gadget a friend was enthused about
also turned out to be a great way
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25 Simple Ways to Get More Steps In Your Day
So you’ve heard it a million times: Walk more! Aim for 10,000 steps
a day! But taking the stairs instead of the elevator will only get you so far.
Steal a few of these fresh tips to help you rack up your mileage. (Looking for
a great way to track those
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How Many Pairs of Fitness Shoes Do You Really Need?
Recently, I stood and surveyed my impressive pile of workout shoes. I have
running shoes, walking shoes, court shoes (my old gym had a racquetball court),
cross-trainers, cycling shoes; you get the picture. I’ve long wondered—and
I know I’m not the
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Gear Guide: The Core Fusion Craze Goes Cardio
The term craze gets applied to so many trends, but Exhale Spa’s Core
Fusion phenomenon, with its ever-growing stable of classes, DVDs, and celeb devotees,
actually deserves the title. Their just-out Cardio—Pure Intensity title
is their first overt
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Gear Guide: Light Up the Night
Ah, summer evenings. Dinner’s over, the sun’s setting—time
to settle back and see what’s on the tube, right? Nope! The other night
after dinner at my mom’s, I had no trouble luring my husband, sister, and
nephew out onto the lawn
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I Tried It: Paddleboarding
This past Saturday evening I found myself balanced on a paddleboard in the
middle of Burlington Bay on Lake Champlain. The water was still, its depths blue-green
and seemingly bottomless. As the sun sank lower, casting its golden pink rays
over the Adirondack
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Gear Guide: Shake Up Your Workout With Vibration Training
While the phrase “vibration training” might stir up long-ago
visions of plump women with shimmying belts circling their rear ends, it actually
refers to a legit way to get fit. Credible, journal-worthy research has been
done on these shake-you-up
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How to Work Out (Safely!) in the Heat
Here in Alabama, “summertime” usually means temperatures in the
90s (at least) plus a heapin’ helping of humidity. Even if you don’t
live in the Deep South, chances are it’s getting pretty toasty outside
where you live. But
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