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5 Great Fitness Gifts for Mother’s Day

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Mother’s Day is coming and for those of you keeping track, it’s one week from this coming Sunday. I think we should honor our mothers all the time, after all – they raised us, they gave us our sense of morality, our joy and our comfort. They kissed away our pain, they cheered on our accomplishments and more. So what can you give to your wife, your mother, your mother-in-law, your sister, your teachers and more – all of who are our mothers or the mother of our children? I’m a Mom I always thought my mom and my grandmother … Continue reading →

10,000 Steps May Not Be All That

Do you know what the 10,000 step program is? We’ve talked about it here. The 10,000 step program encourages participants to increase their number of daily steps to 10,000 in order to improve their health, reduce weight and increase their fitness. This is a great idea because the average person only takes about 2,000 steps per day. 2,000 steps is about 1 mile. So if you are increasing your steps to 10,000 you are achieving about 5 miles per day in your walking. So What’s The Problem? Recent studies indicate that when we depend only on the pedometer for the … Continue reading →

Pedometer Practice

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Pedometers are the ideal exercise companions. They encourage you to go that extra mile. They nudge you to take more steps each day. They whisper ‘just a little bit further’ into your ear and they send you looking for the steps instead of the elevator. In fact, I know people who have lost weight and gotten fit with their pedometer than with all other diet and fitness plans together. Inside a pedometer is a small pendulum type device. This device is what lets the pedometer count your steps. The pedometer I have, for example, is a small device that attaches … Continue reading →