google
yahoo
bing

From the monthly archives:

September 2005

Apples and Pears and Health

by Kar on September 30, 2005

We all carry our excess fat a little differently. One person may become a thunder thighs with a large butt and big thighs like a pear, while the next person carries it all in the middle, like an apple on a stick.
Well it seems the pear-shaped women are at a health advantage over the [...]

{ 1 comment }

Carushka is Back!

by Kar on September 29, 2005

For years, Carushka offered beautiful and functional exercise and dancewear created from beautiful fabrics with great styling, albeit a bit pricey. Then, not long ago there was a big liquidation sale and they were gone, No more website, No more catalogs.
But now they are back with a new website www.carushka.com. The selection [...]

{ 0 comments }

10,000 Steps Every Day

by Kar on September 29, 2005

Our bodies were not designed to be sedentary. None of our ancestors could be classified as ‘couch potatoes’. Our bodies were designed to move and do things. Only in recent history has our culture become so idle that we no longer even get off the couch to change the TV channel. [...]

{ 0 comments }

Spinning, Spinning, Spinning

by Kar on September 28, 2005

I loved riding my bike as a kid, pushing hard up a steep hill and turning around and just flying back down the hill, all the while trying to see how long I could go before I got to scared and used my brakes. It was a rush then and still as an adult [...]

{ 0 comments }

Fit Fitness into your Travels

by Kar on September 28, 2005

Approximately 38 million Americans travel regularly for business and long flights, business meetings and boring hotel rooms can make keeping fit more difficult if not impossible. But the demand for on-site fitness centers is growing and many hotels are now providing workout facilities. But how do you find out which hotels have fitness [...]

{ 0 comments }

Target Heart Rate

by Kar on September 27, 2005

One of the most effective ways you can improve your workout results is to monitor your heart rate. Aerobics instructors have advised us to take our heartrates for as long as there have been aerobics classes. We used to take our carotid pulse for 60 seconds, multiply it by 10 and we would [...]

{ 0 comments }