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Nutrition and Exercise
Nutrition plays an essential role in an exercise program. While limiting fats and caloric intake are necessary to lose weight, limiting calories to an extreme may actually inhibit the body from building muscle and losing fat.
Tagged building muscle, exercise program, losing fat
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Teens and High Intensity Exercise
Adolescents can benefit from regular exercise to build strength, endurance, and coordination, and to prevent obesity and other diseases, but bursts of high-intensity exercise, such as intense weight-training, may suppress adolescent growth.
Exercise Can Help Your Older Members to Prevent Mental Decline
Performing more than one hour of exercise daily may help prevent mental decline in your older members. A study from the Netherlands found that older men who exercised one hour or less each day had twice the risk of mental decline than the more active older men in the study.
Tagged Alzheimer’s disease, mental decline, stress
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Implications for Practice
The findings of the above study, and all studies examining the group-support/exercise-maintenance relationship,present positive implications for providing effective, relatively low-cost/low-effort support for new (or re-starting) exercisers.
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Avoiding Backache with Sit-Ups
Q.I get lower backache when I do sit-ups. I’ve been told I have weak lower back muscles. Can you suggest a few exercises to strengthen my lower back muscles?
Tagged abdominal work, abdominis, tramadol
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A Dancer’s Secret to a Better Body: Working the Abs. Part 2
The targeted muscle groups: rectus abdominus (the layer of muscle closest to the skin’s surface), external obliques (the muscles found on the sides of the body), internal obliques (muscles found behind the rectus abdominus) and transversus abdominus (located between the belly button and the pubic bone).
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A Dancer’s Secret to a Better Body: Working the Abs. Part 1
With the holidays rapidly approaching, (high season for the ‘little black dress’) my peers have asked me to divulge dancer’s secrets for taut stomach muscles. The most common question people ask is ‘How do I get rid of my weight around the middle?’
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