Fitness

1. Do it Rio You don’t have to be in Rio de Janeiro at “Carnaval” to enjoy dancing the samba as a solo dance, but it wouldn’t hurt. In Brazil, dancing the samba as “samba no pe” means dancing the…
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1. Literally Go Bananas It sounds silly, but snacking on some bananas is a great way to ward off muscle cramps. Actually, any food that is rich in potassium will help your body naturally ward off muscle cramping. Most fruits…
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Conserving water comes in many forms from installing rain barrels to buying a low-flow toilet. With so much water on the Earth, some people wonder why saving water is so important. Through its WaterSense program, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency…
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Overview A multi-gym is an exercise platform that includes multiple pieces of exercise equipment on one machine. The platform usually includes at least a bench and a pulley and can be extensive enough to accommodate more than 100 exercises. Multi-gyms…
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Most people spend the majority of their day bent forward while sitting at a desk, driving, even loading the dishwasher. Although many people remember to stand up straight when they catch their reflection in a mirror, it is difficult to…
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1. Imagine the Separation Bones remain flexible when you’re young to accommodate the intense “growth spurts” that children seem to go through. When you reach adulthood, and your growth slows, your bones calcify and become full strength. However, junior rowers…
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Overview Kayaks are small boats designed for one or two riders. These vessels can be used for touring quiet tributaries, shooting the rapids and even fishing. With their light fiberglass or carbon-fiber bodies, kayaks are often subject to damage from…
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1. Bring in the Clowns At first sight hip hop krumping might appear to be a bunch of clowns dancing and thrashing around. If this is what you see, you need to look a little deeper. Hip hop krumping originated…
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1. The Best of Breakdancing Breakdancing allows you to express yourself through dance by utilizing your whole body, but this full-body style also makes breakdancers vulnerable to a variety of injuries. With its twists, contortions, spins and falls, breakdancing can…
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Water is a valuable resource, but consumers should use it wisely to help conserve it. Whether you live in a bustling city or in the middle of a desert, everyone can help save water by finding ways to recycle and…
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1. Resistance for Forward Neck Exercises is in Your Hands For those interested in obtaining a thicker, more muscular neck, you’ll need to attack the neck muscles from all sides: front, back and sides (or laterals). It doesn’t generally take…
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1. Kayaking on Your Level Kayaking can be an easy and calm exercise or a fast moving, challenging form of exercise, depending on what you choose. Paddling on a lazy river, close to a shore for a couple hours is…
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Regularly exercising your joints can help reduce pain, according to the physical therapy site thephysiotherapysite.co.uk. Keeping your joints moving will help with your pain, mobility and stress level. Know that for the best results, these exercises need to be done…
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The knee is a weight-bearing hinge joint composed of several bones, ligaments, tendons and muscles. Physiotherapy exercises will strengthen the muscles and ligaments that support the knee joint and rehabilitate the knee after injury, inflammation or surgery. The knee is…
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1. Keep Things Simple From the basic salsa step, all other salsa steps derive and flourish. Learn the basics and do common salsa turns until the steps and turns become second nature. Then when you move on to more advanced…
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From an anatomical standpoint, the butt consists of three muscles known as the gluteus maximus, gluteus medius and gluteus minimus. When you want to create a fuller, rounder butt, you need to work these muscles with weight training exercises. You…
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Hybrids are items with two or more components. There is a large emphasis on “going green,” conserving energy and saving money in today’s society. Hybrid vehicles are one way consumers are trying to spend less over time and leave a…
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All-climate tents are intended to keep campers comfortable in all conditions, from a mountain blizzard to a hot day in the desert. To perform well in stormy weather, all-climate tents need to have sturdy pole systems, be made of quality…
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Softball for 8-year-olds can be a fun game, but practices that involve simply taking turns hitting and playing the field will bore young players after a while. Incorporate drills that teach important skills and add a little competition to practices…
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1. Stay Afloat Recreational canoes and canoes suitable for white water have different design characteristics. Look for a touring or river canoe. A touring or versatile canoe can handle anything from calm lakes to rough water. River canoes have hide…
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1. Don’t Crunch the Baby Yoga is a great exercise throughout your pregnancy, but you do need to consider your baby and keep it safe for both of you. It’s a good idea to avoid doing abdominal exercises, or any…
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1. Original and New Varieties Plenty of Pilates workout videos are available these days. Some Pilates aficionados argue that the only real Pilates workout is the original exercise program designed by Joseph Pilates himself. However, Pilates has become such a…
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If you don’t have time to get to the yoga or Pilates studio, incorporating these practices into your workout routines with exercise videos can be ideal. There are many choices when looking for a yoga or Pilates video. The best…
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The “abs,” or abdominals, are muscles that form an important part of your body’s core. To train this area, you can use the weight of your body or various fitness tools, such as an ab board. The ab board is…
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While there are no hard rules about when a bass will, or won’t, want to feed, the general rule is that bass prefer to feed very early in the morning, and at dusk, when the water temperature is transitioning from…
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Circuit training maximizes time spent working out while improving your muscular strength, muscular endurance, cardiovascular endurance, body composition and functional capacity. Circuit training uses eight to 12 exercises, done one after the other with short rest periods between sets. Advanced…
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Isometric exercises are defined as those that contract a muscle or muscle group for a specific period of time at the height of muscular tension. Isometric training can be done using the body’s own weight for resistance, or using resistance…
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Stretching your neck and shoulders will help to decrease the tightness and tension in the muscles supporting your head. The average human head weighs about eight percent of a person’s total body weight, placing quite a strain on the neck…
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Overview A golf handicap or handicap index indicates a player’s skill level on a standard course. The handicap number represents the average number of strokes the player would need to add or subtract from his score to reach par on…
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The key to a successful chest workout, says personal trainer and bodybuilder Matt Weik of Bodybuilding.com, is lifting a weight you can handle and working each part of your chest equally. With a few basic chest exercises, you can build…
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