Healthline Blogs
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Fast Fitness - Dynamic Partner Balance Challenge
Here is Friday Fast Fitness - fun challenge for body stabilization, strength, speed, and balance with a friend.Stand facing a partnerStand on one foot, pressing the other against your partner's raised foot.Push, pull, surprise your partner with un...
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Do Fun, Not Exercise
Today I took a break from a study we're doing, to do the Leg Stretch That Strengthens Arms in yesterday's post. It is a good exercise that you can do quickly.A pile of assorted scientific utensils fell out of my pockets, along with pens, rulers, s...
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Comments, A Medical Conference, New Findings on Discs
By the time this post comes out, we should be halfway out West to a medical conference. I'm presenting a study, which took years to do, and which found something unexpected.I am a medical researcher. I find out the things that doctors (with any lu...
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Train Exercise is Exercise Training
Reuters News India reported that yesterday in the eastern state of Bihar, the driver of a stalled electric train asked passengers to help get it moving again. We call this a G.O.P. car (get out and push).The train had stopped in an electrically ne...
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Fast Fitness - NoCost Hand Strength and Rehab Equipment
Here is Fast Friday Fitness -hand exercise without rehabilitation equipment.One of the exercises against repetitive strain syndrome is to exercise the muscles that open the hands. There are expensive commercial devices you can buy for this. One co...
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On The Way
We are on our way to the United States. It will be several days of trains, ferries, buses, and flights. I won’t have phone, mail, or internet to be able to post for a few days, but I will keep trying the drumming, magic spells, and carrier pigeons...
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Fast Fitness - Stretch For Menstrual Cramps
Here is Friday Fast Fitness - a stretch to help relieve the ache of menstrual cramps and the same pain from uterine cramping after sexual relations:Person with cramping lies on back, knees bent, feet flat on the floor or bed.Partner sits at their ...
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Forearm, Upper Body and Hand Exercise
During the part of the year that we live in the United States, we have a luxury - a washing machine. You put clothes in it, and it washes them for you. You come back later, hang out the clothes, and the Earth dries them for you. Luxury.Recently th...
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Change Daily Reaching to Get Ab Exercise and Stop Back and Shoulder Pain
When you lift your arms, do you lean back and increase the arch of your lower back? It is unhealthy body mechanics if you do - photo at right.Arching your back to raise your arms reduces the stretch and exercise on the shoulder, and increases load...
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Fitness Tests - Do They Do What They Claim?
A number of conventional standardized fitness tests, surprisingly, are not accurate. They do not test what they claim to test. To get real answers that you can use, it is important to know if you are doing what you think you are doing.An example o...
