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Go Outside Your Comfort Zone

Posted: 02/16/2012

Convinced you “can’t” run a marathon, or sprint at level 10 on that treadmill? … Are you sure about that?   Even if you have a physical challenge or condition that limits you in some way, most of us also create false boundaries for ourselves — “no-can-do’s” that are only in our heads. And more and more studies are showing...

Nutrition Tip of the Week

Posted: 02/09/2012

Ode to CHOCOLATE, "food of the gods!" It is well known that Giacomo Casanova was the most insatiable womanizer of all time. It is said that he called chocolate his “elixir of love,” drank it religiously before every love making tryst and used it in his seductions—the  first love pro to tap into the timeless attraction...

Getting older? Get in some S-T-R-E-T-C-H-I-N-G!

Posted: 01/30/2012

Why stretch? Stretching increases flexibility, a key component of physical fitness that is often neglected. A greater degree of flexibility is believed to help prevent injury (and low back pain) and improve sports performance. We lose flexibility as we age, so practicing a regular program of stretching the major muscle groups can help prevent loss of flexibility and its associated...