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Why Is My Lower Body in Pain After Running & Walking?
Dear K and A: How come I can run 10 miles Saturday morning with no soreness, but slowly walking 8 miles leaves my entire lower body in pain? Sunday I rested. Monday I did a 5 mile easy run that felt...
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How to Improve Your Brain Today
Lifting My Brain Power and Spirits Move Your Body to Improve Your Cognition Scared you’ll lose your memory, mental acuity, or brain function as you age? Have you watched an older loved one’s mental...
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Best Workouts to Burn Fat For Women Over 50
Be Low Fat or Burn Fat? Secret to Fat Burning: Run Up Hill. Let Rain Rinse off Fat Sweat. Walk Down Hill. Have a Beer. No, Don’t. Water Bottle is Best. Do you have a goal to be lower fat? Did you know...
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Are You Safe Exercising in the Heat? Stay Hydrated, but How?
Stay Hydrated When You Exercise in Heat Are midlife exercisers safe to exercise in the heat? Is it enough to simply stay hydrated? What are the dangers (and solutions) for active boomers who face high...
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Walk to Lose Weight, Gain Fitness and Happiness
Free and Easy (and I’m not Describing My Sister) Looking for an easy, no cost, comfortable way to add more activity into your day? Walk — outdoors, at a local mall, indoors on cardio equipment, down...
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Emotional Benefits of Walking Outdoors
Are you lucky enough to enjoy outdoor walks? Do you live in an area conducive to walking? Do you live where you can see the blue sea? What about the blue sky? In addition to all the physical benefits...
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Pssst! Want to Know Top Insider Fitness Trends and Quotes?
Looking Into the Future Do you like to stay ahead of the curve? I mean besides the ones on our baby boomer, midlife bodies? Then hold tight as we zoom through some of the key takeaways and quotables...
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How Do You Relax?
Do you think relaxing is part of a healthy, active life? For some, relaxing is the opposite of activity. For others, it’s congruent with it. Maybe it just depends on how you define “relax.” I know many...
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Use Weights While Walking: Yes or No?
Can the subject of walking with hand or ankle weights be humorous and informative? In looking back at old posts, we discovered some gems that are begging to see the light of day again and still au...
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How Do I Prevent Calf Soreness After Walking Hills?
My Calves Are Stiff Dear K and A: I know you’ll probably faint, but having exercised for 1.5 hours TWO DAYS IN A ROW, I have a legitimate workout question. Yesterday and today a friend and I did a...
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Stretching: Before or After Walking, Running, Hiking, Fighting?
Dear K and A: Is stretching better before or after doing cardio exercise, such as a hike, walk, or run? We believe that the couple who hikes together, stays together. This morning on a lovely hike, we...
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A 10K Walk is as Far as a 10K Run
What if you could participate in a running race by not running and not racing? Could such a thing be possible? When you hear about 5K, 10K and marathon races, you immediately think it’s a running race,...
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Which is the “Best” Cardio Workout: Walking? Running? Machines?
Which is a better cardio workout: stationary bike, treadmill, elliptical, rowing machine? Tina, Lubbock, Texas I heard walking is much better for you than running, especially for women over 50. Is...
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How Do I Lose Weight But Not Bulk Up?
No Hulk! No Bulk! Dear Fun and Fit: K and A–I want to lose weight, not bulk up and build muscle. I’ve recently joined a gym and started doing 40 minutes on the elliptical and walking five miles on the...
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Who Wants to Wrangle a Balloon in the Hollywood Christmas Parade?
My son is getting a fun birthday present this week. We are going to be balloon wranglers in the 84th annual Hollywood Christmas Parade as part of a Hollywood Hotel package. Even though I grew up on a...
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3 Biggest Treadmill and Stairclimber Mistakes [video]
Alexandra gets Lost in Translation Do you hop on the stairclimber or treadmill to get a good workout for your wrist, neck, or spine? Do you have a goal to put all the load into your joints as you lean...
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Exercise, Nutrition, and Brain Games Make Your Dog Smarter. You Too!
We just know there’s a giveaway prize from Dognition somewhere near. Do Smart People Have Smart Dogs? Who wouldn’t mind an easy way to increase your health and fitness levels, reduce stress, AND...
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Sightseeing Counts as Exercise
On a whim, I decided to take my son and a friend to Los Angeles for the day to do some sightseeing. It’s a 90-mile drive, which means about 4 hours in the car for the round trip (traffic willing),...
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Living Longer via Walking: Who Wants In?
Walk to Live Longer Is living longer one of your goals? I can hear you now: “Only if those added years are quality ones that I enjoy in good health.” I hear ya; I feel ya. Who wants extra time that is...
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Walk Better: 7 Steps to Great Gait
Go for a walk Going for a walk will almost always benefit you – anytime, anywhere. However, do you walk and stand in ways that age or support you? Find out what’s going on behind your back. And in...
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