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Pajama Games: Working Out Without Going Out
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Date: 2007-01-13 14:52:56
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| Of all the questions we get, we especially like those that reveal your fashion sense. During last week\'s online chat, one participant sought counsel on a short, non-jolting workout she could do in the morning that does not \"require me to put shoes |
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A Relief in the Neck
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Date: 2007-01-13 14:52:56
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| Today\'s topic is a pain in the neck. We mean this literally. (Hey, this is the Moving Crew you\'re reading. You want metaphors, check out op-ed.)Neck pain may seem to stem from a single action -- an awkward sit-up, turning your head to see merging t |
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A Core Workout -- or Just Horsing Around?
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Date: 2007-01-13 14:52:54
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| We see horseback riding as a leisure -- not fitness -- activity. So when we heard about an electronic equine by the name of Joba, purported to boost core strength via regular \"riding,\" we thought the claims must be a load of, well, equine output. B |
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Rockin' With the IT Band
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Date: 2007-01-13 14:52:51
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| Usually the phrase \"irritated band\" evokes images of gruff British rockers demanding more Ketel One backstage. For us (until our guitar skills improve), it refers to the iliotibial, or IT, band, a rope of fibrous tissue that extends from hip to kne |
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Pumping Without the Iron
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Date: 2007-01-13 14:52:48
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| We say often that you don\'t need big clanky weights to gain strength, that so-called bodyweight exercises -- push-ups, pull-ups and others that require you to move the weight of your body against the pull of gravity -- will suffice. We then typicall |
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Working It Out at Work
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Date: 2007-01-13 14:52:48
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| Two weeks ago, we asked readers to tell us how their employers aided or thwarted their efforts to pursue fitness. We expected to hear about pedometers, lunchtime walks, company fitness centers and yoga classes.We did.
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No Time to Exercise? Blame Your Boss.
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Date: 2007-01-13 14:52:47
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| Today, in that back-to-school spirit, we have homework for you. Yeah, we know, everybody wants something this time of year, but we\'re the good guys, remember?We get a fair volume of comment, especially during our online chats, from people who claim |
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Putting the Cardio Before the Horse
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Date: 2007-01-13 14:52:47
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| If we had a nickel for every time someone asked us whether it\'s okay to do cardio and strength training on the same day -- and if so, in what order -- we\'d have at least a quarter, a significant value in a land rife with parking meters. So we\'ll d |
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Hamstrung -- or a Humbling Lesson in Healing
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Date: 2007-01-13 14:52:46
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| To: Readers.From: Scribe.
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About the Crew | Ask the Crew
Susan Morse Health section assistant editor, hiker, kayaker, swimmer and dabbler in a variety of exercise regimens.
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Running Afoul of the Law
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Date: 2007-01-13 14:52:46
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| Despite the Moving Crew\'s intimate familiarity with traffic court, our formal legal education is pretty much limited to laws of physics (\"a body in motion tends to stay in motion,\" etc.) and, if we finish our homework in time, watching \"Law and O |
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Even Bruno Believes in Holidays
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Date: 2007-01-13 14:52:45
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| Oh ye who nervously peel open the Health section, fearing the wrath of Bruno the Megatrainer, today we bear a gentle message: Exercisers who favor moderate to high intensities should take one day of rest per week to allow the body to rejuvenate and c |
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The Back Story, Revisited
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Date: 2007-01-13 14:52:45
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| Have low-back pain? Ever had it? Want to avoid it? Okay, that covers all of us, so listen up: The muscles of the lower back are designed more for stability and less for power or acceleration (unlike, say, the quadriceps). Thus, you want to choose bac |
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The Stuff of Fitness
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Date: 2007-01-13 14:52:45
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| Like any community, the fitness village works best when everybody shares. So we were pleased that many of you responded to last week\'s column about some of the more curious new products at a fitness trade show with your own reports about the stuff t |
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Fitness's State-of-the-Mart
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Date: 2007-01-13 14:52:44
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| A dumbbell is a dumbbell, a treadmill a treadmill and an exercise band . . . well, that\'s just a glorified piece of rubber tubing, right? Actually, yes, but don\'t share this insight with the makers of fitness gear. They would be so sad, considering |
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Get Moving, or the Dog Dies
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Date: 2007-01-13 14:52:43
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| In our effort to get you out of the pantry and into motion, we\'ve tried lots of stuff: exhortation, intimidation, promises, shame, scientific evidence, consistent smart-aleckry and even commiseration. Now we bring out the big gun: Your slothful beha |
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