Surrounded by about 2499 friends on Sunday I completed the Boulder Ironman. It was the second year for the IM here and my second year participating. Last year was a story in itself. I wrote about it, as I finished in 17:21 and officially that’s DNF in the Ironman books. That stands for Did Not […]
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Maintaining Muscles As You Age Is a Big Part of Maintaining Tone and Fighting Off Fat Getting enough high-quality protein – and getting while you’re muscles are most in need of it – is important to an after 50 babe who wants to keep the best bod and active life as possible. Getting the majority
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It All Depends On Your Goals: Now and Later The news is out that your group fitness program is NOT contributing to your bone density building. A study of one of the most popular group strength training programs showed that only at one spot is there significant increase in bone density. Subject participating in the
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Raise the Glass Ceiling About What You Believe “I just want to be healthier.” This is an excellent goal. Sometimes you get into trouble delivering that line to a personal trainer when a trainer pushes for a performance or a numbers-related goal. It’s a trainer’s nature and part of their ability to feel successful is
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Lose Weight With Less Realism and More Dreaming? It’s true I put a lot of emphasis on the need for sleep into my programs and writings. Yet that’s not where this headline is going. A New England Journal of Medicine study suggests small changes are too little and big goals are better. We’ve been told that reducing our
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The Possibility of an Injury Is Better Than The Sure Thing Of Cancer or Heart Disease I hope you’ll agree there is no contest and that this is our reality right now. I hope for future generations – my direct offspring, and yours – that this improves. Exercise is part of your prevention plan for disease
When you’re in search of a fast way to fit in quality exercise here’s a set. You may need to modify to fit your needs, or your knees needs, but you can follow the sequence and the choice of lower body or upper body exercises is up to you.
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Twin Peaks are On A Race To Your Socks One of the disadvantages of having an older sister is she tells you exactly what’s coming. So when she made the comment above several years ago before I even crossed the 5-0 threshold I was less than excited. It was funny then. Because she was talking
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IS THERE REALLY A GENDER BIAS IN WEIGHT LOSS? Let’s put the gender bias toward pressure to be thinner and beautiful and accomplished aside. By now, you’ve witnessed it yourself or you’re heard it lamented by your friends, he loses weight faster and easier than you. Well of course we could blame it on hormones
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WHO HAS YOUR BACK WHEN YOU VISIT THE DOCTOR? You may have an amazing doctor. I hope you do. Too frequently this happens: a reader or client tells me about an experience at her doctor’s office that makes the hair on my neck stand up. She’s gone to the doctor for routine reasons or for
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Shoulder
Circumference outside of both arms, at the armpit
Right Triceps
Halfway btwn shoulder & elbow, arm extended.
Hips
Find the widest point of girth at the hips
Right Thigh
Standing with weight on both legs, measure halfway between knee cap and hip flexor
Right Calf
Standing with weight on both legs, find the largest point of calf.
Chest
Measure from the rib cage just under breasts at bra line
Waist
At the belly button/umbilicus
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