Aerobics Flash Mobs Energize Colorado

Seemingly spontaneous aerobics astounded lunch-goers across Colorado on Wednesday, September 30, when flash mobs broke out at 12:10 p.m. on the streets of Denver, Greeley and Grand Junction.  More than 100...

Key To Love Of Exercise Found In DNA

A study of identical and fraternal twins has shown that the love of exercise may in fact be a genetic trait. The study was conducted at the University of North Carolina. 5,334 identical twins and 8,028 fraternal twins participated in the study, which showed that the exercise...

Bought my First Elliptical Trainer

Does cardiovascular training help you burn body fat? It certainly does - but not in the way many people think it does. Many people feel that the most significant benefit of cardiovascular training is that it burns body fat while you are working out. Although some of the...

Skinny Jeans Workout Strengthens Core to Tame a Hangover Tummy

The Skinny Jeans Workout is the ultimate marriage of fitness and fashion.  The core strengthening, posture improving regimen combines cardio fitness with stretching and tension strength training to help women...

George Sodini Kills 5 at LA Fitness Shooting in Pittsburgh

Up to 15 people have been shot at the LA Fitness Gym in Bridgeville Pensylvania, and at least five people have been reported dead, including the shooter, George Sodini. Witness said that a man, not known to the...

Will Toning Shoes Be the Next Big Footwear Craze?

Great footwear for the mid-day city walk. Walk, think, improve. "Get in shape, without the gym. It's a potent marketing claim that has women opening up their wallets. "

Exercise - I want to start but how?

This story is written from the perspective that you do little exercise today, and by the fact you are at least reading this, you would like to start exercising. At this stage we’re not going to tell you what to do, but we want you to get your mind into the zone that...

Fort Worth man calls police after his wife is called fat

A Fort Worth Texas resident called the police after his wife was called fat by men handing out fitness flyers to a local health club. The woman was walking near the Heritage Trace Parkway with her new baby and was approached by two men promoting the Fitness 2000's 'summer...

Sleep helps you lose weight

Do you need to lose weight? Then, turn off the television an hour earlier and go to bed, for a new study has revealed that getting more sleep could help you shed the flab. An international team, led by Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington has found that lack of sleep...

Diet Don't : Popcorn’s deadly butter-vapor diacetyl

A decade after safety concerns were first raised by experts, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) conducted public hearings on Diacetyl – a chemical widely used to flavor microwave popcorn. The public comment period ended on April 21st. Recent...

News just in....Namibia 24-hr Ultra Marathon completed...

We've just heard from the Namibia Ultra Marathon race director Steve Clark, that everyone is now back in Swakopmund.  Steve said the race was very tough with temperatures getting up to 42 ºc.   Winner Darren Roberts was very surprised and shocked to hear he...

Take a Hike...

It started as one of those good intentions; the ones you make while sitting on the couch watching television programmes in which other people are doing healthy active things and one of you says "Lets...

Bartendaz Giving New Meaning to Pick Up Bars

Bartendaz sounds like the working title to Vince Vaughn's next film, or a group of bottle tossing Pussy Cat Doll-esque bartenders, but the reality is something unexpectedly different.  Bartendaz are not...

Adapting new sports to Britain offeres alternative fun exercise

Adaptation new sports to Britain has offered alternative and fun ways to exercise. With the increase in knowledge and the accessibility of health information on the internet attitudes towards health and...

PATHS Atlanta - Northern Shaolin Martial Arts Tan Tui Application

A video from one of my Northern Shaolin classes in Atlanta, GA, where I am teaching a student some trapping hands drills from the training form in our system called "Tan Tui".

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