Top 10 benefits of running fron NordicTrack

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Do the 30 day walking challenge from Reset Your Body

"Why am I doing this?

Because the average Australian walks 9,695 steps daily. The average Swiss person walks 9,650 steps daily. About 5 miles
How far does the average American walk? 5,117 steps…350 yards in a day…That’s less than 4 football fields! :(

How boring is walking??!! I know, I know. But crazy as it sounds, we human beings are totally designed to walk. If you think about it, a normal person (normal fitness and no injuries) can pretty much walk forever. Give them some comfortable shoes (or barefoot if walking on grass), find a way to feed them on the go, and what’s stopping them other than sleep?"

 RULES FOR THE 30 DAY WALKING CHALLENGE! –

1 Walk/run/crawl 30-45 minutes each day (That’s 10,000 steps)

2 Do it 5 days a week

3 That’s 25 miles a week and 100 miles in a month! (THAT’S 200,000 steps!)

4 Buy a pedometer from Target for $10 or download a free pedometer app to your smartphone (I use Pacer)

5 Get a group of you to do it together!
See entire article & ways to walk @ Reset Challenge

What is the Chair Gym?

Great to workout while watching a show or something.Stay active. You don't need to lose weight, just be active

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Working out at your desk or while watching tv from 98.7 The Bull's McKinzie

"Lifestyle Break: Sometimes it’s hard to find time to work out. McKinzie from 98.7 The Bull is a working Mom, and she says that makes exercising regularly even more difficult. In this video, McKinzie tries out 10 quick “deskercises” moves she found online to help her exercise at work."

Lifestyle Break: Sometimes it’s hard to find time to work out. McKinzie from 98.7 The Bull is a working Mom, and she says that makes exercising regularly even more difficult. In this video, McKinzie tries out 10 quick “deskercises” moves she found online to help her exercise at work. Do you have any good fitness tips?

Posted by FOX 12 Oregon on Friday, May 1, 2015

Flat Abs Walk - Full Length 40 Minute Walking Workout for Flat Abs

iWalk Strong 3 Mile Walk

Do the Esmonde Technique!

Note:Posting for health, not weigjht loss. You can decide to lose weight, or not. It is your body;your choice. However, everyone should workou to be healthyt rehardless of body size, or type.

"Classical Stretch - The Esmonde Technique is an effective total body workout developed 15 years ago by Miranda Esmonde-White. It is an original combination of scientific formulas and graceful movements that unlock uncomfortably rigid muscles leaving the participant with a more flexible, relaxed and strengthened body. The exercises reach deeply into muscles and ligaments not normally worked in the average fitness program and are set in routines that release tight muscles one by one.

The results come quickly - not over years, but in a matter of minutes. Increased flexibility is enjoyed instantly. The results of following Classical Stretch three times per week leaves the participant with improved posture, increased energy, a slenderized body, the relief of aches and pains, and a general feeling of well being. This unlocking of the muscles creates the leaner look, giving the participant back the body they were meant to have before locking it up in the sedentary and stressful lifestyle of the 21st Century. The core principles of this program are what make the results so successful.

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Office workout: cereal box edition

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Shape Magazine's office workout

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Fidgeting Your Way to Fitness

" That question matters, since cardiorespiratory fitness — as measured by VO2 max, or the maximum amount of oxygen a person can take in during exercise — increasingly is being recognized as an important predictor of health. A review article published last year in The Journal of Psychopharmacology concluded that a person’s VO2 max could be “at least as important as the traditional risk factors,” like blood pressure and cholesterol readings, in the risk for premature death.....

In focusing on fitness instead of weight, the Canadian study has especially broad implications. “Our findings suggest that if you move even a little, that can help your fitness, even if you don’t meet the formal exercise guidelines,” said Robert Ross, a professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University and co-author of the study with K. Ashlee McGuire, a doctoral candidate. ...

The Canadian research does raise some interesting questions even for those of us who exercise. Should we try to add more unplanned activity to our days? Can we? Isn’t it then planned activity — that is, exercise? And if we do fidget and incidentally move more, can we exercise less?
“There’s no reason that I can see not to add more incidental activity,” Dr. Ross said. “Take the stairs; park farther away” — actions that add to the number of steps you take each day. “But formal exercise is still the best thing you can do for your health,” he said. “Try to meet the guidelines.”

See entire article about fidgeting for fitness

Walking

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1. It deflects diabetes. New research links brisk walking to a significant risk reduction for developing type 2 diabetes. Insulin resistance is a predictor of this disease, even in people with normal glucose levels. But a recent British study found that people with a family history of the disease who walked briskly, or performed some other type of moderate to vigorous activity on a routine basis, improved insulin sensitivity.
2. It soups up your sex life. Sex and exercise go hand-in-hand. In a study of women between 45 and 55 years old, those who exercised, including brisk walking, reported not only greater sexual desire, but better sexual satisfaction, too.
3. It saves you on gym costs. In this economy, people are cutting excesses, and that includes trips to the health club. In an American Heart Association survey, a quarter of the 1,000 people questioned had axed their gym memberships sometime in the previous six months. But no matter where you live, there’s a place you can pound the pavement or trek a trail, and 150 minutes of moderate-intensity walking a week can help manage stress and prevent heart disease. Moderate walking equals an average of about 100 steps per minute. San Diego State University researchers suggest using a pedometer and aiming for 1,000 steps in 10 minutes, and working up to 3,000 steps in 30 minutes.
4. It can get you off meds. Using data from the National Walkers’ Health Study, including more than 32,000 women and 8,000 men, researchers found that those who took the longest weekly walks, not necessarily accumulated the most mileage per week, were more likely to use less medication. This shouldn’t deter you from taking shorter walks more frequently throughout the week, but you should consider squeezing in a longer walk once a week, perhaps on the weekend when you have more spare time.
5. It can help fade fibromyalgia pain. This chronic condition affects more than 4 percent of the population, and often involves pain, fatigue and brain fog. A small study found that in women 32 to 70 years old, those who walked 60 minutes, performed light exercises, and stretched three times a week for 18 weeks reported significant improvements in walking and mental capacity, and were less tired and depressed.
6. It helps you beat breast cancer. Women who walk regularly after being diagnosed with breast cancer have a 45 percent greater chance of survival than those who are inactive, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Yale researchers heading up the study also found that those who exercised in the year before being diagnosed were 30 percent more likely to survive, compared to women who didn’t exercise leading up to their diagnosis.
7. Strolling reduces stroke risk. Walking briskly for just 30 minutes, five days a week can significantly lower your risk of suffering a stroke, according to University of South Carolina researchers. After studying 46,000 men and 15,000 women over the course of 18 years, those with increased fitness levels associated with regular brisk walking had a 40 percent lower risk of suffering a stoke than those with the lowest fitness level.
8. It can save your mind. Italian researchers enlisted 749 people suffering from memory problems in a study and measured their walking and other moderate activities, such as yard work. At the four-year follow-up, they found that those who expended the most energy walking had a 27 percent lower risk of developing dementia than the people who expended the least. This could be the result of physical activity’s role in increasing blood flow to the brain."
   
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