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Achilles Tendon Recovery

By on Sunday, October 7th, 2012 | No Comments

Dis­cover the facts about Achilles ten­don prob­lems and the steps you can take to pre­vent them and help them heal.

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Free Dance Classes for Cancer Recovery

By on Thursday, August 16th, 2012 | No Comments

Dr. Martha Eddy and Mov­ing for Life offer free dance classes to help in the recov­ery from cancer.

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Avoid Bench Press Injuries

By on Sunday, July 15th, 2012 | No Comments

Learn to avoid bench press injuries with advice from T-Nation.

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Just Do This Every Morning

By on Thursday, April 5th, 2012 | 1 Comment

Improve your fit­ness by climb­ing stairs while hold­ing weights. Sim­ple. Easy. Very effective.

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Update on Barefoot Running Benefits

By on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 | 1 Comment

Many run­ners have switched to a “bare­foot” run­ning style that involves land­ing on the fore­foot instead of the heel. Fore­foot land­ing may offer pro­tec­tion from overuse injury. But new research shows that a con­ven­tional run­ning style is more energy efficient.

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Guest Post: Dancer Injuries — What You Need to Know

By on Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 | 2 Comments

If you’re phys­i­cally active, you occa­sion­ally expe­ri­ence pain in your mus­cles or joints. How do you know if you have a poten­tially seri­ous con­di­tion or if you’re just feel­ing the bumps and bruises that are the inevitable result of an active lifestyle? Deb­o­rah Vogel, spe­cial­ist in train­ing dancers to pre­vent injuries, shares her insights on lis­ten­ing to your body’s signals.

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Guest Post: Walking Seniors Raise Fitness, Funds for Charity

By on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 | No Comments

One woman’s inspir­ing story of dis­cov­er­ing walk­ing as the ideal way to improve fit­ness, raise funds for char­ity, and strengthen social ties.

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Guest Article: Conscious Fitness

By on Saturday, January 28th, 2012 | 1 Comment

True fit­ness increases by pay­ing atten­tion to bod­ily cues while engag­ing in all of life’s activ­i­ties. Deepen your insight into this prin­ci­ple and dis­cover some sim­ple move­ment activ­i­ties to strengthen your body-mind con­nec­tion in this guest arti­cle by E. Yen Zak and Dr. Martha Eddy.

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Stretching is (Mostly) a Waste of Time

By on Monday, September 26th, 2011 | No Comments

Researchers now believe that many of the rea­sons that peo­ple think stretch­ing is good for them have no sci­en­tific valid­ity. Dis­cover the alternatives.

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Muscle Injury Recovery with Eccentric Workouts

By on Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 | 1 Comment

Dis­cover the secrets to safely rehab­bing mus­cle injury — using the neg­a­tive work phase of exercise.

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