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 | Weight Control
Are you looking for a foolproof way to lose weight-one that doesn't require incredible willpower or starvation diets, boring menus, or tedious calorie counting? One that is fun, invigorating, and builds self-confidence? One that keeps your weight where you want it for life? There is one plan, and one plan onl ...
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 | Five Basic Sports
Walking, swimming, bicycling, running, and jumping rope. Every woman has tried most of them at some time in her life. These five are the natural exercises. You don't need lessons to walk, run, or jump, and you need only the most rudimentary swimming or cycling lessons before you can start paddling or pe ...
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 | When you do aerobic exercise, at least five things happen
1. The exercise itself uses up calories. The "average" woman uses 215 calories if she walks briskly for an hour. If this were the only physiological result from exercise-and it's not-she would burn almost 3,500 calories in sixteen days, without reducing the amount of food she eats. There are 3,500 calories in a pound of body fat, so e ...
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 | Exercise and Your Heart
The most important reason to exercise is to strengthen your heart. Along with other muscles, your heart can be trained to do a larger amount of work. Whenever you exert yourself, if only to carry a sack of groceries upstairs, your heart pumps extra oxygen-rich blood to your moving parts, for your muscles need oxygen in ...
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 | Vegetarian Diets
Many women who become seriously involved in endurance athletics wake up one day to discover that they don't like the taste of red meat as much as they did when they were sedentary. You certainly don't need meat in order to have enough stamina and recuperativ ...
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 | Choosing Your Own Fitness Program
If you've ever raced the wind across a lake in a kayak or done a perfect cartwheel on the lawn, you know how good it feels to exercise. Your body was made to move. It feels cramped and sluggish , when forced to be still. Your blood pressure rises, your appetite goes askew, your bones become brittle, you ...
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Badminton
There are two kinds of badminton: "dink" badminton, in which people lazily bat a plastic bird over a volleyball net while they sip beer on a late summer's afternoon, and power badminton, a dizzyingly fast game of speed, power, and position played on an indoor court (to elimin ...
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How to use the sports medicine guide
First, rule out all aerobic warnings and other danger signals. If you have any of the symptoms just listed, call your doctor immediately. If your injury is not an obvious emergency, find your symptoms in following the appropriate section on the outline that follows to look for your symptoms. (Problems are g ...
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WHY EXERCISE?
When you move your body vigorously, you bring oxygen to every cell. Exercise makes your skin glow and sometimes even makes pimples disappear as your circulation improves. Your reflexes become quicker. Exercise tones up your muscles, so that your body looks trimmer and more attractive. You become more graceful, because your j ...
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