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It pays to Walk@Lunch

So far in this Walk@Lunch Week we’ve talked about the reasons you should spend your lunch “hour” walking. We’ve talked about the benefits to your body, we’ve talked about the benefits to your sanity. Today, we’ll talk about the benefits to your bottom line. Your wallet/purse/man-bag,  that is.
Yesterday, I went to Blue Cross Blue Shield [...]

Walk@Lunch: Exercise and Explore

Our coverage of Walk@Lunch Day started March 23 with a heads up,  resumed last week with a look at why you should walk over your lunch hour, picked back up yesterday with a look at the logistics of taking a walk at lunch, and continues today with a reminder that walking at lunch shouldn’t just [...]

Surprise the abs, strengthen the core

Yesterday Marcy suggested we hit the beach this weekend, which immediately made me lift my shirt and check out my abs. A not uncommon reaction, I’m guessing.
When we think of exposing our bodies to the world at large, we tend not to think of our chicken-wing shoulders, our flabby arms, our spindly legs: Our gut [...]

Exercise and stroke, weight loss, pregnancy and recuperating

The latest fitness news from the research world:

Don’t have a stroke. And if you’re a woman, you’ll be less likely to have one if you walk two hours or more a week at a “brisk” pace. This according to a study published in “Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association,” which found that women exercising [...]

Dropping weights, osteosoccer and a growing Last Supper

The latest fitness news from the research world …
Weight training-related injuries up If you use free weights don’t drop them, especially on yourself. A just-released study conducted by the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital finds that injuries from weight training increased nearly 50 percent between 1990 [...]

It’s hot! Play smart

Here’s a happy confluence: A three-day weekend (for some) and the first 80-degree weather of the year for much of North Carolina. And not just flirting-with-80 weather, for many of us it will be well into the 80s. It won’t just seem hot (compared to what we’ve experienced), it will be hot.  Thus …
A few [...]

Do This Not That: Don’t favor one side, use both

Free weights are preferred over machine weights because they force both sides of your body to carry an equal load. Cyclists experiment with PowerCranks to prevent one leg from slacking off during a race. The exo ball is popular because it, likewise, is based on the premise that a happy, fit body is a balanced [...]

Playground Boot Camp

“I oughta be doing that with you,” the moderately overweight mom who was watching her son yelled.
“We’re starting a class in April,” Polly Eslinger yelled back. “You’re welcome to join us.”
Eslinger’s response seemed to surprise the woman: We were on Cary’s Middle Creek Park Playground at the time, six grown-ups mixed among  kids cavorting on [...]

Walking the walk at lunch

April 28 is National Walk@Lunch Day. I could have sworn it was today.
I had the lunch shift down at the rickshaw plant and I knew right off I was in trouble. All along downtown Raleigh’s Fayetteville Street, along key side streets, and on up to the state government complex all I could see was a [...]

Do This, Not That: Timing your workouts

Jean Hagen-Johnson of Raleigh runs three days a week, 52 weeks a year, and always at 6 a.m. She runs during milkman hours not necessarily because she’s a morning person or because she savors the tranquility of a city yet to wake. Her reason is more pragmatic.
“Nothing interrupts a 6 a.m. run,” says Hagen-Johnson. “Do [...]