Healthline Blogs
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Fast Fitness - Stop Neck Pain From Biking
Here is Friday Fast Fitness - Save your neck while biking, while drinking from a water bottle while biking, and get a needed upper back stretch at the same time:Main concept - your neck is not a Pez dispenser. Don't tip and pinch back at the neck ...
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Save Knees When Squatting
American baseball catchers have the occupational risk of meniscus tears in their knees. Yoga practitioners of certain squatting moves like "the eagle" and the hindu squat are more likely to get the same meniscus cartilage tears and early joint wea...
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Healthy Knees
My Tuesday night martial arts students worked hard last night on sweeps, falls, tumbling, and quick recovery to their feet. Each week they also learn a new jump rope technique. They have been getting good at fast skipping, crossing the rope in mul...
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Fast Fitness - Build Brains and Help People
Here is Fast Friday Fitness - instead of eating junk food and playing violent video games, try a fun game to build your English vocabulary and help impoverished areas.Click www.FreeRice.comA word appears with possible definitions. Click your choic...
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Helium Speech - An Astronaut Calls the President of the United States
When you take a breath from a helium balloon and speak, your voice rises humorously. What happens when an astronaut does the equivalent and calls the President of the United States?In 1965, Sealab II replaced Sealab I, 62 meters (200 feet) down on...
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91 Year Old Keeps Moving With Drumming
Keep moving no matter what your age.A video should appear below of 91-year-old drummer Jerry. Chick the arrow in the center of the movie box or at bottom left of the video box to watch her. You do not need HD to watch it. It is viewable at various...
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Fast Fitness - Fixing Arches, Knock Knee, and Knee Pain Without Orthotics
Here is Fast Friday Fitness - Stop one major source of inward-turning knees (knock-knees). Click the movie arrow to run:Look at your bare legs in a mirror with feet facing straight forward. See if the knees turn inward to face more toward each oth...
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Happy Birthday Happy Halloween
Happy Birthday to readers who celebrate their birthday today, October 31. Also those with birthdays yesterday and tomorrow. Everyday too.One reader with a special birthday today is Ivy who turns 71 - Inspiring Ivy. Ivy has been generously sending ...
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Back Pain in Pregnancy - and Why Men Can Get It
In school, we were taught about the "unavoidable lordosis of pregnancy." Lordosis (technically, hyperlordosis) is when you allow too much inward arching in the lower spine - Drawing 1 at right.Over-arching causes one kind of lower back pain. It wa...
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Not Old for the Olympics Part II
Yesterday's post, Not Old for the Olympics Part I, told of athletes competing in the highest level athletic events over many years as they get older. The ability to keep physical skills by training is not new or unusual. To keep physical skills, y...
