washingtonpost.com - FitnessFitnessMaking Girls Fit- May 5, 2005 The FitNut program targets adolescent African American girls who are overweight or at risk for being overweight.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61405-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_health/fitness On the Treadmill: Keep Hope Alive- May 5, 2005 Okay, you bought a treadmill a few months back and here it is, late March, and your routine is stale. That once-sleek, addictive toy has become the Dreadmill. Here's your ticket off the plateau.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55837-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_health/fitness Out of the Running Friends Can Help- May 5, 2005 My alarm blared at 7:15 a.m. last Saturday. Outside temperature: 18 degrees. My mission: Running. I could have dozed on, but I rose, applied layers of high-tech outerwear and headed out. Why I needed column material.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61622-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_health/fitness At Play With a Madman- May 5, 2005 "I hate working out indoors," Dean Karnazes tells me as we jog along the bike path in Rock Creek Park on a cool, rainy, windy day. "I hit the gym now and then, but I'd always rather be outdoors."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8263-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_health/fitness Does Bush Put His Budget Where His BMI Is- May 5, 2005 Fitness advocate John F. Kennedy famously encouraged citizens to ask what they could do for their country. But here at The Moving Crew we dare to ask the tough, unpopular questions. Like: What is government doing for you More to the point, what is the government doing to help a nation of increasingly inert, ill and overweight citizens Is the proudly fit President, who so diligently protects his own exercise time, investing in our healthy activity, toohttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15511-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_health/fitness Don't Just Rest Between Sets -- Do Something- May 5, 2005 Today's maddening puzzler: Short on time as always, you enter the gym, dutifully warm up with 10 minutes of light cardio then hit the weights. You've heard you need rest between sets to maximize your strength training benefit. But the clock says you're late again. So: Do you skimp on the rest periods Or do you cheat yourself out of a few exerciseshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45321-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_health/fitness Feeling the Pull of Thai Massage- May 5, 2005 Often called the "lazy man's yoga," the Thai massage promotes longevity and flexibilty by manipulating the body into a series of yoga- like postures and stretches.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14270-2005Mar7.html?nav=rss_health/fitness Something of a Stretch- May 5, 2005 Twenty years ago, Liz Torbert of Cathedral Heights noticed she was shrinking.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45099-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_health/fitness This Week In Health- May 5, 2005 Moving Crew Measuring Curves University researchers explore the fitness question of the 21st century: Just how much good does a Curves circuit workout do, anyhow F3http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35322-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_health/fitness Glenelg Country Marks Half-Century of Growth- May 5, 2005 Ryland O. Chapman III likes to give his students at Glenelg Country School a handshake on their birthday and a pin shaped like a red dragon, the school's mascot.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49817-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_health/fitness |