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Fitness for Mortals: Never mind the level — make sure it’s fun
such a relief to see the end of January. The true winter lovers out there will be heckling me, but when the short month of February is over, you can almost taste spring coming on.

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Jack LaLanne dies at 96; brought fitness to masses
Cause of death was respiratory failure due to pneumonia

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Fitness calendar
Submit entries at least two weeks in advance to Fitness Calendar, P.O. Box 2090, Asheville, NC 28802, e-mail to melmoore@CITIZEN-TIMES.com or fax to 251-0585.

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My first tip of advice is aimed towards the beginners out there, but can also be applied to more experienced runners. Set yourself realistic and achievable goals, both long term and short, write these goals down, for short term goals, plan how many miles you would like to do that week, if your an experienced runner, it may be as high as 60/70 miles including 2 runs on one day. Whereas for a beginner, it may just be a gentle 2 mile jog 3 times a week. For long term goals, for more advanced runners, pick a race that you’d like to enter in a few months time and set a realistic target time e.g. 34 minutes in a 10km race. For beginners, it may just be to complete the race. I advise you keep a diary of your runs, this allows you to analyze how you have improved over the past months of training and you will find it helps keep you motivated and gives you pleasure as you see your improvements!

If you set yourself realistic goals in the short term and the long term, it will help you keep motivated and will lead to success, the secret is slowly building up, if you set yourself goals that are far fetched, and increase’s intensity and distance too quickly, and then you’re on a fast track for injury!

In conclusion, set yourself realistic goals, this gives you motivation and also allows you to keep a record of your improvement as you achieve your goals and continue to set higher and higher goals till you reach your pinnacle!

My second tip is to reduce the stress in your life and so perform to your full potential. It has been reported that over 50% of sick days off work are due to stress, it is a pretty established fact that it really isn’t good for you, and leads to several health problems. Firstly, stress leads to high blood pressure which in turn leads to heart disease, it also encourages strokes! Furthermore all young men should be aware that high stress can lead to impotence, as well as leading to depression, lethargy as well as stomach ulcers and indigestion!

So this is my second top tip, everyday, set about an hour of your time at least to de-stress, everybody releases stress in different ways, and exercise is an obvious choice at it helps you keep fit while reducing endorphins! Other methods could include hitting a punch bag, listening to music, having a relaxing bath, also perhaps just getting a few hours extra sleep a night; not getting enough sleep contributes to this!

By unwinding daily, you are likely to suffer less heart related problems later in life, as well as feeling much more energetic and improving your bodies capabilities for recovery, as well as making you much more productive at work!

My third tip is specifically aimed at the runners out there, rather than just running and running every week, do a new activity as an alternative e.g. biking/swimming. This is known as cross training, for example replace one run a week by an alternative exercise. This reduces boredom of doing the same old routines, encourages you to learn and develop new skills and hobbies. This allows muscle groups and certain body parts (e.g. knees) to be rested which usually get pounded when running and work other muscle groups that are usually ignored, this leads to improved overall conditioning! Furthermore as your usual muscles for running are being rested, it reduces the chance of injury as it gives those muscles much needed recovery time!

Follow these three tips to a happier and healthier life! Happy Running!

Research and Markets: US Fitness Centers Analysis: An Industry Comprising Approx 22,000 Companies with Annual Revenue …
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/eee34a/fitness_centers) has announced the addition of the “Fitness Centers ” report to their offering. The US fitness centers industry includes about 22,000 companies and nonprofits in the US that operate about 30,000 fitness and recreation centers with combined annual revenue of …

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If you are a lap swimmer that enjoys it for over all fitness or a competitive swimmer, you should be doing intervals for improved fitness and speed. The benefits of interval training for swimming some fast laps will make great improvements in your fitness level.

Interval training can be an important part of your swim training. It will break you away from always swimming the same pace up and down the lane and help you get the most value from your time in the pool. This will give you a boost in your workout intensity.

What is interval training? What you will do is swim a designated distance for any number of times with a break between each. First you want to do some warm up swimming before you do the intervals. When you start your interval swim, you want to swim a little faster than you usually do. It would almost be like doing sprints with out going all out.

You can lengthen or shorten the distance, if you go for a shorter distance swim a little faster if you go longer slow it down some. But remember that you will still be going faster that just plugging up and down the pool.

If you are doing it for fitness, you will see a big boost in your cardiovascular condition and strength. If you are a competitive swimmer, you can do your intervals based on your fastest times in any known distance. You would want to swim at a faster pace for a shorter distance to train your body to get used to the speed and for cardiovascular strength. You would have to read specific info for competitive swimmers to get specific interval training information.

The second in a series of 4 interviews with Today in LA host Chris Schauble on swimming for fitness. For more on swim training and specifically for a triathlon, see www.triswimcaochonline.com