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Teens and High Intensity Exercise

February 13, 2012 Robert

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.

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Implications for Practice

January 20, 2012 Robert

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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Exercise and Weight Control

December 15, 2011 Robert

Exercise contributes to the regulation of body weight in many positive ways. Fat burned during exercise is one important contribution. Total energy expended during the activity, whether from fat or carbohydrate, is also important. Those other calories (besides fat calories) have to come from somewhere, probably glycogen. Using up some glycogen has benefit: You can [...]

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A Dancer’s Secret to a Better Body: Working the Abs. Part 2

October 7, 2011 Robert

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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