Healthline Blogs
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Fast Fitness - Great Hip, Side, Leg, and Iliotibial (I.T. band) Stretch
Here is Friday Fast Fitness. Stretching the side of the hip and ilio-tibial (I.T. band) does several good things. Here is a fast, healthy way to do it:Lie flat, face up.Place legs like clock hands, one to 10 o' clock, the other to 2 o'clock (or w...
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Fast Fitness - Mobilize and Strengthen With Serratus PushUps
Here is Friday Fast Fitness - Strengthen and learn to use the often forgotten serratus anterior muscles and learn a good mobilization for your shoulders so that you don't get stiff, and become stuck round-shouldered when driving or typing."Serratu...
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Fast Fitness - Built In Functional Achilles Tendon Stretch
Here is Friday Fast Fitness - get a free, built-in stretch for the Achilles tendon in the way your legs need to stretch during normal movement.Every time you bend with the squat, keep both heels down on the floor (upper right drawing) instead of r...
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High Fat Diet Reduces Endurance
Racers eat all sorts of things hoping to extend endurance. A long history of drugs and supplements have been used from illegal to unhealthy to useless to good common sense nutrition.Some racers load on unhealthful simple sugars hoping that will ma...
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Fix One Pain, Don't Cause Another
When you stretch and exercise, especially if you stretch and exercise to improve your health, remember that the purpose is not to recreate unhealthy movement habits.Two similar letters came in recently.Reader Tina wrote:"Thanks so much for your po...
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Subjects Invited for Immersion Pulmonary Edema Study
Duke University contacted me regarding Swimming and Pulmonary Edema.They are recruiting experimental subjects who have experienced immersion pulmonary edema to participate in studies to investigate causes of this condition. The studies concentrate...
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Fast Fitness - Healthier Sports Shake
A New Zealand swimmer asked for more sports nutrition. Here is Friday Fast Fitness - quick, good tasting sports shakes - cheaper and healthier than store-bought.My father and grandfather, (and great-grandfather+) were Ice Swimmers. We all swam all...
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Bending Right is Fitness as a Lifestyle
Readers asked for more pictures of healthy bending around the house and workplace during daily life. They've been getting excited about the idea that daily life is the way to physical ability and health, instead of stopping life to do a bunch of e...
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Diving Women of Korea - The Haenyeo
In the previous two weeks, I wrote about the Japanese diving women, the Ama. Readers asked about the divers of Korea. Although they are sometimes called Ama divers, "ama" is a Japanese word. The Korean diving women are the Hae-nyao. Both ama and h...
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Patience and Pomegranates
Here is Fast Friday Fitness - practice patience and peel pomegranates for hand dexterity, and the antioxidants and fiber you can't get from juice.It's pomegranate season. For the next few months, look for red, round fruit with edible seeds, called...
