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Exercise Environment

  • Baby joggers
  • Bands and balls: when and why to use them
  • Beating the heat: preventing heat exhaustion
  • Finding the health clubs for the 50+ crowd
  • Gardening for the health of it
  • Go for the cold
  • Health clubs: getting the most for your money
  • Home free: a weight room of your own
  • Play ball in the house
  • Play it safe in the sun
  • Running through the cold
  • Six steps to safe hiking
  • Snowshoeing: workout in a winter wonderland
  • Stairclimbers: stepping up to fitness
  • Swim, bike, run...I'll tri!
  • Three reasons to try the treadmill
  • Tips for buying exercise equipment
  • Ultrarunning: experiences from 100-mile trail races
  • What time should you exercise?
  • Winter warning: tips for preventing frostbite and hypothermia

Exercises

  • Aerobic exercise
  • Bench press using free weights
  • Biceps curl using free weights
  • Break the routine: discover the latest trends in aerobic exercise
  • Circuit training: fast, flexible and fun
  • Cardio kickboxing
  • Climbing the walls
  • Cross training: fitness, fun, and fewer injuries
  • Crunches
  • Exercise that raises more than your heart rate
  • Free weights
  • Free weights or machines? Which are better?
  • Lateral raise using free weights
  • Lunges using free weights
  • Military press using free weights
  • Pilates
  • Power through plyometrics
  • Sit-ups
  • Squats using free weights
  • Stair-climbing
  • Strength training: essential for total fitness
  • Stretching exercises
  • Step-up using free weights
  • Take the plunge—try swimming!
  • The benefits and risks of walking versus running
  • Triceps extension using free weights
  • Want to play hard? Try racquetball
  • Water training: more than swimming “upstream” for fitness
  • Weight-bearing exercise
  • What can a personal trainer do for you?
  • Yoga: good for your body and your performance

Guidelines

  • A safety checkup for your strength-training routine
  • Baffling blunders at the gym
  • Bike safety tips
  • Building sweat equity: how to start—and stay—on the right fitness track
  • Can online personal training do the job?
  • Can you really overtrain?
  • Do you need to talk to your doctor before you start an exercise program?
  • Exercising caution when you have diabetes
  • How do you choose the right athletic shoe?
  • Intensity check: how hard are you exercising?
  • Setting fitness goals
  • Safety and injury prevention for runners
  • Share your personal trainer and save cash
  • Starting a regular exercise program
  • Strengthening your muscles
  • The benefits of a fitness partner
  • Using a pedometer to increase exercise
  • Walk this way to fitness
  • What time should you exercise?

Mind/Body

  • Bodywork: what you don't know could hurt!
  • How to meditate
  • Massage therapy
  • Massage therapy for athletes
  • Moving meditation: the art of tai chi
  • Nia: moving with purpose
  • Pilates
  • Visualization: the power of the mind's eye
  • Yoga
  • Yoga for Athletes
  • Yoga alert

Just Getting Started

  • A safety checkup for your strength-training routine
  • Aerobic exercise
  • Bands and balls: when and why to use them
  • Circuit training: fast, flexible and fun
  • Cross training: fitness, fun, and fewer injuries
  • Do you need to talk to your doctor before you start an exercise program?
  • Intensity check: how hard are you exercising?
  • Setting fitness goals
  • Starting a regular exercise program
  • Strength training: essential for total fitness
  • Stretching exercises
  • The benefits of a fitness partner
  • Three reasons to try the treadmill
  • Tips for buying exercise equipment
  • Using a pedometer to increase exercise
  • Walk this way to fitness
  • What can a personal trainer do for you?

Athlete—from Weekend Warrior to Elite Competitor

  • Can you really overtrain?
  • Drug tests: don’t fall victim to a "false-positive"
  • Exercise that raises more than your heart rate
  • Give your legs a break: try kayaking
  • Mountain biking
  • Olympic athletes talk training
  • Olympic myths, yarns, tall tales, and half-truths revealed...
  • Run for someone else's life
  • Running injuries: give it a rest
  • Safety tips for in-line skating
  • Steroids: bigger is not better
  • Take the plunge—try swimming!
  • The benefits and risks of walking versus running
  • The long road to marathon recovery
  • The reality of the "runner's high"
  • Women running marathons: do benefits outweigh risks?
  • Your first marathon: you can do it!

Just for Women

  • Exercise and pregnancy: a healthy combination
  • Exercise and bone health
  • Femme fitness: women and performance
  • For women only: sports medicine focuses on females
  • Postpartum fitness
  • The shoe's on the other foot
  • Women running marathons: do benefits outweigh risks?

Youth Activity

  • Good sports have a good time
  • Swimming lessons: when should your children start?
  • Top 5 soccer injuries
  • Protecting your pearly whites
  • Cardiac arrest in healthy, young athletes

Exercise and Aging

  • Do you need to talk to your doctor before you start an exercise program?
  • Exercise and bone health
  • Finding the health clubs for the 50+ crowd
  • Fitness: elixir for the ages
  • Gardening for the health of it
  • Get plenty of exercise… but don’t forget to stretch!
  • Get strong with strength training
  • Keep on movin': exercise after 50
  • Senior Games: "Olympics" for older adults
  • Seniors: it’s never too late to start exercising
  • Staying in shape as you age
  • Staying active to enjoy your later years

Fitness Rewards

  • Exercise and asthma: Is exercise jeopardizing your health?
  • Exercise and bone health
  • Exercise and pregnancy: a healthy combination
  • Fitness: elixir for the ages
  • Reduce stress: fit fitness into your life
  • Staying in shape as you age
  • Strong to the core
  • The dangers of hidden abdominal fat
  • Tips for reducing stress in your life
  • Yoga: good for your body and your performance

Overcoming Obstacles

  • ACL injury: the scourge of skiers
  • Boomeritis: a sports concern for baby boomers
  • Chiropractic treatment: what you should know
  • Cortisone injection: will it help or hurt you?
  • Don't let injuries handicap your golf game
  • Don't play through the pain: alternative exercises for injured people
  • Exercising caution when you have diabetes
  • Female basketball players hindered by ACL injury
  • For women only: sports medicine focuses on females
  • Football: play like a champion (without getting hurt)
  • Hoop hurts: help for common basketball injuries
  • Protecting your pearly whites
  • Running injuries: give it a rest
  • Soothing the pain of bursitis and tendinitis
  • Sports-related wrist and hand injuries
  • The hard facts about softball injuries
  • The long road to marathon recovery
  • Tips for avoiding tennis traumas
  • Top 5 soccer injuries
  • Volleyball injuries: block them before they get worse

Mental Motivation

  • Mental toughness: brain power for sports
  • Get an Olympic attitude
  • Holiday exercise: make it a pleasure, not a punishment
  • Sticking to your New Year's exercise resolution
  • Visualization: the power of the mind's eye

Fitness Fuel

  • Athletes need to eat fat!
  • Beyond Wheaties: eating like an Olympian
  • Calcium
  • Can athletes drink too much water?
  • Eating a diet low in saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol
  • Holiday food: drafting a winning lineup
  • Sports beverages: what's in a name?
  • Sports supplements: are they valuable and safe?
  • Zinc

Personal Stories

  • Climbing blind: conquering more than mountains
  • Every breath she takes: asthma hasn't slowed Joanna Zeiger
  • Fighting colon cancer: one man's story
  • Interview with an Ironman
  • Iron woman
  • John Drummond: golden in the face of adversity
  • Kris Freeman: diabetes won’t keep him from the Olympics
  • Never say never: Driscoll wins races from her wheelchair

Last reviewed January 2008 by EBSCO Publishing Editorial Staff

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