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How to Survive the Holiday Fitness Slump

Don’t lose ground this holiday season. Routines can be shattered and temptation is everywhere. But that does not have to mean your health and fitness goals take a back seat. Holidays can be a stressful time, but since exercise releases endorphins for that feel good effect, maintaining your regular fitness program can help keep the …

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Use Your Smartphone to Take Your Fitness to the Next Level

Want to lose weight? Monitor your heart rate? Count the number of your steps you walk? Your smartphone helps you do all of these things. With various apps and advances, smartphones remove the guesswork and create fitness tools to help you take your health seriously. Over half of adult smartphone owners use them for medical …

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Holiday Fitness – 10 Tips to Keep In Shape

Here\’s a list of great tips from various sources for staying fit during the holiday season!  Good luck and comment with your favorite suggestion! ————- Starting on Thanksgiving, a lot of us find our exercise regimen falling by the wayside. “Another slice of pie won’t hurt” can quickly snowball—and by January 1, we’re cursing ourselves …

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Attention office dwellers! Four easy tips for staying active at work

In many workplace settings, finding ways to stay active throughout the day can be challenging without utilizing specific fitness tips. Even if you spend most of your time behind a desk, there are ways you can break away and incorporate some mild physical activity into your daily office routine. The fitness tips listed below are …

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Exercise to ease depression – can it work?

Can a stroll help ease depression? That question preoccupied Dr. Madhukar H. Trivedi, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, after several of his patients, all suffering from serious depression, mentioned that they felt happier if they went for a walk. The patients in question were taking the …

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