Even the good life is predictably unpredictable, and so are some of the developments I’ve seen over the last 40 years.
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The Rise of Pushups
by OR Today Magazine | Nov 28, 2016
The morning of my 50th birthday in May I did something I had not tried in a long time. I dropped to the floor and did 50 pushups, one for each year. I had to break it up into sets and the last few where shaky, but I did it. And it felt great. As a new member to the...
READ MOREHow to Exercise Without Even Knowing It
by OR Today Magazine | Nov 19, 2016
In a review that appeared in the International Journal of Obesity, a group of scientists recently suggested that Americans are simply spending too much time talking about how our toxic food environment and our couch potato ways are making us obese. Perhaps there are...
READ MOREUnconventional Fitness: Squeeze Your Butt, Interval Training & Slower Weight Training
by OR Today Magazine | Oct 1, 2016
WHEN IN TRAFFIC, SQUEEZE. Body awareness is a marvelous thing. Take your butt, for instance. If you let nature take her course, you will, over time, notice it sagging and becoming listless. Buns of steel naturally turn into buns of cinnamon. Butt it doesn’t have to be...
READ MOREExercise: It Does so Much More Than Burn Calories
by OR Today Magazine | Sep 21, 2016
Elizabeth Pegg Frates, M.D. Harvard If you’re trying to lose weight, you’ve surely heard that you need to “eat less and exercise more.” The more you move, the more calories you’ll burn – and you’ll lose weight. But as it turns out, the effect of physical activity on...
READ MOREExercise Dropout? A Gentle Investigation of Self-Sabotage
by OR Today Magazine | Sep 21, 2016
Is exercise good for you? Duh. Regular workouts give you strength, energy, a trimmer body, a healthier heart, a calmer mind and a much lower risk of at least 35 (!) different devastating diseases, including high blood pressure, stroke, osteoporosis, nonalcoholic fatty...
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