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BRIDGING THE GAP

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  1. Choosing Between Aerobic and Resistance Exercise for Type 2 Diabetes
  2. Boost your Mood with Daily Exercise
  3. Burning fat: during and post-exercise
  4. Improving Sprint Start Speed
  5. Exercise reduces depression in postmenopausal women
  6. Preventing Overuse Injuries in Children
  7. Interval versus Continuous Training and Neuromuscular Fatigue
  8. Train smart, recover smarter
  9. Toning Your Muscles
  10. What makes you sore after lifting weights? Or any intense workout?
  11. Finding Balance Through Strength Training
  12. How to Optimize Endurance Using the Taper Method
  13. How to Optimize Endurance Performance Using the Taper Method
  14. How exercise cures non-insulin dependent diabetes
  15. Why is it helpful to get a senior moving, even a little bit, if they have difficulty walking?
  16. So you want to get in shape? BEWARE of infomercial exercise equipment
  17. Sedentary Death Syndrome (SEDS) is on the rise due to inactivity
  18. Can exercise truly be called the “fountain of youth”?
  19. Drop some fat and gain independence
  20. Fitness is gained after workouts not during them
  21. Stretching during warm-up versus flexibility training
  22. Motivational stories
  23. Indoor workouts ARE more controlled
  24. The adaptations from and benefits of interval training
  25. Aerobic classes - an excellent idea
  26. Laying a proper foundation is essential for long-term success
  27. The purpose of duration days
  28. Recovery from traveling
  29. How high can your HR go?
  30. 10,000 steps is twice the national average
  31. Exercise during menstruation
  32. Sizing your stability ball
  33. Enjoyable workouts
  34. Inches and body weight don't tell the whole picture
  35. Coming back from an injury
  36. Shifting workouts - shifting rhythms
  37. Measuring exercise overload
  38. Stretch last - but do stretch
  39. Specificity of training and functional versus age-predicted maximal heart rate
  40. What to do if you skip or miss a workout
  41. Try increasing pace rather than grade
  42. Do all intensity efforts within same workout
  43. Pedometer Accuracy
  44. Abs should be trained like any other muscle group
  45. Two good weight lifting references
  46. Weight loss frustrations
  47. Exercise proves to be a valuable tool for reducing pain as we age
  48. You get fitter between workouts - not during them
  49. Resistance training improves bone density even into your eighties
  50. Stretch after your exercise, not before
  51. Weight training can be considered moderate intensity exercise in elderly subjects
  52. Heart rate is used to indicate aerobic intensity levels
  53. Exercise IS a stress
  54. The number of days you workout per week depends on you
  55. Beat your genetics
  56. Give yourself permission to fail
  57. Tendonitis
  58. Benefits of massage
  59. Your waking heart rate indicates the stress in your life - good and bad
  60. Improve balance and reduce the risk of falling with Tai Chi
  61. Counting your steps towards better health one step at a time
  62. Is arthritis pain holding you back? Maybe you need to top your joints off with cream.
  63. The dreaded cold: exercise or rest?
  64. Exercise & diet does more than just keeping your weight down, they improve your survivability from prostate cancer.
  65. Exercise increases Nitric Oxide which decreases hypertension, clotting, stroke and heart disease.
  66. Active recovery - experiment with other options
  67. Pedometer Benefits
  68. Are you allergic to exercise?
  69. Subconscious self-sabotage
  70. Resistance training helps to maintain muscle mass seen with aging or dieting
  71. ACSM exercise guidelines
  72. Weight training for improved performance is different than for improved appearance
  73. Repetition maximum (RM) versus sub-max lifting
  74. Monitoring your workout